User Reviews

I would definitely give this episode a chance. Very impressed! I think rating it at 10 is maybe over the top, as I reserved 10s for the best of the best. But it doesn't deserve a 1. It's above average and well worth the watch. I've seen all the monthly episodes/movies on In the Dark and this has been my all time favorite.

The movie is centered around Father's Day and grief. A father takes his two daughters on a camping trip back to the spot him and his wife visited when he asked her to marry him. It's a desolate and barren area with nothing around for miles, but it's meaningful. The family is suffering from overwhelming grief after losing their mother to cancer. The teenage daughter is lashing out at everyone because she's hurting deep inside, while the younger daughter clings to her father scared of losing him now. The first night in their motor home very creepy black eyed children come. They want to be let in.. You might be wondering like I did, how this grieving family ties in with terrifying black eyed children, but it does and it works.

There was emotional depth to this movie that I hadn't seen much of with any of the other episodes. Its not a sappy drama either, in fact this is the ONLY episode in the series that made me jump on several occasions. As a regular horror movie buff I watch tons of horror movies every week so I'm pretty desensitized to them, so if a movie can make me jump even once then I'm thrilled!

Sit back, allow yourself to get absorbed and you'll find 1.5 hours well spent!

Father's Day horror film on Hulu - They Come Knocking. It's the story of a father with two children coping with the death of the mother. They take a family trip to where the father proposed to the mother to the leave her ashes and they find ghosts including the a ghost of the mother at the location. This movie was okay and worth watching. The pace was slow but the children were eerie. The acting wasn't bad. It's nothing special overall but not a complete waste of time either. 5/10.

A first site this seemed like another rip off of The Strangers. In one aspect it is but it still captures creepiness and has some scary moments and it goes without saying it also has some moment where it follows the horror cliche.

I was going into this movie thinking it would be somewhat of a "Strangers" knock off which I'm glad it wasn't. Yes this movie has flaws in a normal sense of the term, but for what it's worth the acting is high above most box office "hits" in the same genre. I'll definitely say this, I'd pay $10-$12 to see this movie over most of the crap Hollywood pumps out these days. Just give it a chance.

Interesting premise, touching storyline, beautiful score, but with arctic logic and dismal acting decisions.

Everything is illogical even with the help of the supernatural factor.

Slow paced and very unsatisfying in the end.

First off the characters are so unrealistic. I get that it's a movie but come on, at least make it so their actions seem somewhat reasonable so the person watching can get into the movie. Second the whole flashback things got really old after a while because it seemed like they showed the same thing over and over again. Third the whole movie in general just dragged, was dull, and just seemed poorly made. I have seen better low budget horror flicks than this one. I actually disliked it so much I made an account just to leave this review so I don't feel like I totally wasted an hour and a half of my life for nothing. Congrats Hulu on producing crap.

The Hills Have Eyes, but with ghosts. The pacing is slow. The story was not very original, but I wasn't bored and didn't hate the characters. I did jump once which for this whole series thus far is the first and only time. This isn't bad or great. It was just ok.

I have not been impressed by Into the Dark until now. The other episodes were dull, poorly written and nothing special. This one however has it all. Great acting and chemistry and set design. A super spooky story with a few jumps. Worth the watch.

This is a movie that works better symbolically than it does at face value. A father takes his young daughters on a trip to spread their mother's ashes after she died of cancer at the place where they fell in love. While there they are attacked by as group of demonic children in hoods at night. Trapped in the middle of nowhere the father hiked out to try and get help but the little monsters have a more insidious plan for their newest victims. The movie is definitely creepy and emotionally resonant. It's also a bit uneven and has an amateur feel due to the clunky direction. Ultimately the children represent grief and how we hold onto it even when it's time too let go. The problem is the movie is quite nonsensical and heavy handed. That being said the performances are pretty solid all around and you can't help but give props to the makers for being do ambitious. Which makes it fit perfectly into Hulu's innovative Into the Dark series. Plus it's scary. Father's Day.

3/5

Huh? What is the point of this movie? I literally don't know what to write, because I'm still trying to figure what the hell I just watched. I guess my advice would be to just keep scrolling on your Hulu account! Your welcome!

Towards the beginning of the episode, the family pulls into a gas station in their pickup pulling a trailer. The first thing the father does is get out and check the oil on his truck. Why? You cannot get an accurate reading when you have been driving it. Checking the oil was just something to do so he could talk to his daughter. OK, why not clean the windshield? Writers think they know something but since they have never done it themselves they really don't. I hate stupid mistakes like this and they happen all the time.

The whole time I was hoping that the little girl would get smacked across the face by anybody. Nothing ruins the ambiance of a horror movie like a bad child actor.

All in all, it's a pretty good movie. The actors are good. The initial idea was good too. But I've noticed a lot of negative points:

• First of all, the end. What the heck is this? It's too easy. It's pointless.
• Secondly, the cliché about the behavior of the protagonists. Why horror filmmakers always make the protagonists so stupid? You're so used to this kind of behavior that instead of being afraid, you're mostly on edge.
• Then, I wonder why it's a horror movie. The first season's episodes were all about psychopaths. The goal was to show the darkness of humans. Then, in that season, it became a horror movie. It made me lose interest in following the show.

Storyline is confusing. They never really addressed whats attacking them. At first I thought they were going towards a home invasion "Strangers" type concept but then they changed directions towards a paranormal type concept which was confusing. The resolve of the movie happened so randomly without any explanation which no sense.

This episode had a decent set up, and some emotional motivation for the characters; I'll give it that. But a viewer would have to have a high tolerance for horror cliches and be ready to forgive a total breakdown of any logical coherence for the sake of a few jump scares to really enjoy this. Ultimately disappointing.

Why does this thing most as a tv series but I'd actually a movie ?

Definitely a decent horror movie we liked it. Worth a watch and better then many movies we have seen!