The Deep Dark is a 2023 horror film in which miners discover a crypt and unknowingly awaken a bloodthirsty creature.
Written and directed by Mathieu Turi. Produced by Eric Gendarme, Alexis Loizon and Thomas Lubeau.
The French Fulltime Studio-Marcel Films production stars Samuel Le Bihan, Amir El Kacem, Thomas Solivérès, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Carl Laforêt, Diego Martín, Marc Riso, Bruno Sanches and Philippe Torreton.
Plot:
In 1956, Amir left his home country of Morocco out of financial necessity. He’s sent to Pas-de-Calais to work in the worst mine in France, known as The Devil’s Island.
Shortly after his orientation, Amir is assigned to a group that has been ordered to accompany a professor under the pretence of collecting samples. But once they’re down in the deep dark, it quickly becomes clear that the professor has another agenda and that he’s looking for something quite different.
When the miners blow up a gallery to access an older mine that had been condemned a century earlier, they uncover a secret chamber filled with traces of an ancient civilisation. As the miners realise that the discovery will result in the mine’s closure, greed leads them to do the unthinkable, thus dooming the entire expedition…
Director and writer Mathieu Turi has commented, “The Deep Dark (Gueules Noires) will be a mix of horror and adventure, in the best tradition of H.P. Lovecraft stories, but set in a French reality and a strong social context. It’s going to be a character-driven story, confronting the old and the new generations in an exciting and terrifying quest to the unknown.”
Original title:
Gueules Noires “Miners”
Notes:
This movie should not be confused with Michael Medaglia’s Deep Dark (2015) or the forthcoming American monster movie of the same name by Matt Devino and David Michael Yohe.
Trailer:
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