Hold the Dark
Available on Netflix
HOLD THE DARK opens on Bailey Slone (Beckham Crawford), a young boy playing with toy soldiers on a mound of snow in front of his rural house in a remote village in Alaska. Only moments later, the boy is gone. It's the third in a series of instances where children have disappeared from the area, all of them thought to have been carried off by wolves. Medora Slone (Riley Keough), Bailey's mother, is out of her mind with grief, and terrified about the effect their son's disappearance will have on her husband, Vern (Alexander Skarsgård), who is out of the country, serving in the U.S. Army. Medora writes a desperate letter to Russell Core (Jeffrey Wright), a science writer and wolf expert. She begs him to come to Alaska, find the wolf responsible, and kill it. Only a few hours after Core arrives, the plot begins to twist and turn, plunging the unsuspecting writer into a whirlwind of revenge, bizarre behavior, and a hint of the dark arts. Mounting mystery and savagery erupts when Medora, too, disappears, and Vern Slone returns from the Middle East. Core teams up with smart, courageous lawman Donald Marium (James Badge Dale), but there's little they can do to stop or even slow down the escalating violence.
Starring Jeffrey Wright, Alexander Skarsgård, James Badge Dale
Director Jeremy Saulnier