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‘Out of Darkness’ Director Explains the Film’s Shocking Twist and How He Made a Stone Age Horror in a Fake Language
'Out of Darkness' director Andrew Cumming explains the Stone Age horror film's polarizing twist and discusses making a movie in a fake language.
The film, released in theaters Feb. 9, follows a tribe of people living on a desolate Scottish island 45,000 years ago who find themselves prey to a mysterious enemy that picks them off one by one. Taking a page from “Jaws” and “Alien,” Cumming restrained himself from showing the antagonist until it became absolutely necessary, when it’s finally revealed that the menacing beast that’s hunting the tribe turns out to be human. It’s a timeless message, Cumming adds, symbolic of the fact that “Out of Darkness” was conceived during the early stages of the pandemic, when fear seemed to swallow whatever trust people had in each other.
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