Half Light (2005)
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25% of critics liked it
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49% of users liked it
(8,515 ratings)
A successful mystery writer retreats to a remote fishing village following the tragic death of her son, only to become caught up in a bizarre supernatural murder mystery in this tale of terror directed by Craig Rosenberg and starring Demi Moore. Rachel Carson's (Moore) five-year-old son has… More A successful mystery writer retreats to a remote fishing village following the tragic death of her son, only to become caught up in a bizarre supernatural murder mystery in this tale of terror directed by Craig Rosenberg and starring Demi Moore. Rachel Carson's (Moore) five-year-old son has drowned, and as a result her life appears to be falling apart at the seams. When a sympathetic friend rents Rachel a secluded cottage in hopes that a little peace and quiet will help the grieving mother recover from her loss, the quiet retreat is violently shattered by a series of bizarre and unexplained murders. Now with a community in fear and her sanity slowly slipping, Rachel must use her instincts to unmask the killer before it's too late and she too falls prey to the murderous rage that threatens to consume the once tranquil town. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Directed By
- Craig Rosenberg
- Genres
- Drama, Mystery & Suspense, Science Fiction & Fantasy
R,
- In Theaters
- Jan 1, 2005 Wide
- Studio
- First Look Pictures
Critic Reviews
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Luke Goodsell, Empire Magazine Australasia
Plenty of stringy wind-swept hair and shapeless woolly jumpers abound, and at least there's picturesque scenery for a slow afternoon's viewing.
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Amber Wilkinson, Eye for Film
More televisual than cinematic, Half Light is too chocolate boxy and clean to be completely convincing, but it's a diverting enough story.
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Anton Bitel, musicOMH.com
if you strip away all the references to other films, and all the play on genres, what remains is a film without its own soul, as insubstantial, and as difficult to credit, as a spectre half-glimpsed through the Scottish mist.
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Urban Cinefile Critics, Urban Cinefile
Demi Moore is used to the odd supernatural love story (Ghost, 1990) and she works hard at Rachel, but the screenplay just isn't up to the genre. It's not super, it's not that natural and it's not very thrilling ... the end result is not even half right.
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Matthew Turner, ViewLondon
There's a pleasingly Hitchcockian feel to this entertainingly old-fashioned thriller and writer-director Craig Rosenberg pulls off several impressive twists so that you're never quite sure just where the story's going.
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Cast
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Demi Moore
as Rachel Carson
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Hans Matheson
as Angus McCulloch
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James Cosmo
as Finlay Murray
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Henry Ian Cusick
as Brian
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Kate Isitt
as Sharon Winton
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Therese Bradley
as Morag McPherson
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Beans Balawi
as Thomas
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Nicholas Gleaves
as Dr. Robert Freedman
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Joanna Hole
as Mary Murray
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Michael Wilson
as Reverend James MacMahon
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Polly Frame
as Librarian
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Ceit Kearney
as Gaelic Speaking Woman
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Nichola B.
as Kate McCulloch
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Jamie Edgell
as Gordon McCloud
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Anne Smith
as Bingo Announcer
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Isla Hampson
as Maître D', Maître D', Matre D'
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Helen Crerar
as Mrs. Freedman
