Never After Dark

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A wandering medium, Airi spends her life guiding restless spirits out of the world of the living. Summoned to an isolated country house, she comes face to face with a grotesque apparition with powers that defy Airi's experience. As she digs deeper into the house's past, a secret comes to light -- and Airi finds herself hunted by a far more unpredictable force. For the first time, her greatest adversary is not the supernatural, but the living.

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A chilling ghost story that deftly reimagines Japanese horror conventions, Never After Dark pairs Moeka Hoshi's compelling performance with elegant craftsmanship and slow-building, inexorable dread.

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Randy Myers

San Jose Mercury News

1 day ago

3/4

The result is a superbly crafted freakout in the the spirit of classics such as “The Shining” and goose-pimply J-Horror films as “Ju-On: The Grudge.”

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Simon Abrams

RogerEbert.com

Sep 26, 2026

3/4

Boyle and his collaborators take a few jarring creative shortcuts and by-passes, but pull off most of what they attempt.

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David Ehrlich

IndieWire

Sep 26, 2026

B

There’s a real thrill to be found in how “Never After Dark” taps into the temporal dimensions of its timeless genre, its blithe spirit gradually stiffening into the stuff of a Kiyoshi Kurosawa chiller as it confronts the dangers of a broken clock.

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Chuck Bowen

Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)

4 hrs ago

The staging in "Never After Dark" is beautiful throughout: it has both the leisurely pace of a haunted house mystery, the sort of pace that allows you to luxuriate in the setting, and, when appropriate, the kinetic pleasures of a harder-edged thriller.

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Sarah Boslaugh

TheArtsStl

16 hrs ago

7/10

...when exploring an immaculately kept inn, it can never be a good sign to find a tin of bloody teeth tucked away in a drawer.

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Maxance Vincent

Film Speak

1 day ago

A-

Moeka Hoshi delivers one of the year’s most impactful performances in Dave Boyle’s underseen Never After Dark, a chiller that owes much to Kiyoshi Kurosawa's aesthetic and storytelling impulses.

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Elizabeth

Sep 27, 2026

Great movie that felt creepy and sad but satisfying ending

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John

Sep 26, 2026

Great creepy horror movie with a satisfying ending.

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S D

@Stheday 10 hrs ago

There isn’t a dull moment in this movie. I thoroughly enjoyed it from start to the end.

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Todd T

@toddat 1 day ago

One of the best movies of the year. So many layers and twists leading to an ending you’ll be thinking about for days.

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movie S

@itsfreeplustax 5 days ago

great artisan film, slightly unpredictable, still left me with some questions and the ending was a little abrupt but def worth the watch. had some good scares, some getting to know the main characters but i wish i got some more backstory regarding the characters who kept reappearing.

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Mike H

@RT73682797 Oct 2, 2026

Great horror that knows how to control the genre and switch it up to keep you hooked. Cinematography and location/production design are fantastic, and the cast is very solid, it's a great watch.

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A wandering medium, Airi spends her life guiding restless spirits out of the world of the living. Summoned to an isolated country house, she comes face to face with a grotesque apparition with powers that defy Airi's experience. As she digs deeper into the house's past, a secret comes to light -- and Airi finds herself hunted by a far more unpredictable force. For the first time, her greatest adversary is not the supernatural, but the living.

Director: Dave Boyle
Producer: Dave Boyle, Kento Kaku, Kosuke Tsutsumi
Screenwriter: Dave Boyle
Distributor: Magnolia Pictures
Production Co: Signal181
Genre: Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: Japanese
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 25, 2026, Limited
Box Office (Gross USA): $11.6K
Runtime: 1h 44m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio: Digital 2.39:1

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