Dark Places revolves around Libby Day, a woman who once saw the massacre of her mother and sisters at the supposed hands of her brother, eventually testifying against him. Years after, in the rural town in Kansas. Haunted, she meets a group of amateur investigators called The Kill Club who open the case again to exonerate her brother. Starring Charlize Theron and Nicolas Hoult, Dark Places looks into a cloudy past.
In any other year, this would possibly be an intriguing thriller. But Gilles Paguet-Brenner’s work is vastly overshadowed by David Fincher’s Gone Girl which was triumphant in its portrayal of one of Flynn’s books. Though having Theron at the centre of your film does more good than harm, Dark Places looks like a flat film, pulled out too quickly after the Gone Girl success.
Dark Places is out in August.