This film has been chosen by our wonderful CULPLTEX Volunteers!
From Alex Proyas, visionary director of The Crow, comes Dark City, a mind-bending science fiction thriller set in a shadowy world where the sun never rises and nothing is quite what it seems.
John Murdoch (Rufus Sewell) wakes in a hotel bathtub with no memory of who he is or how he got there, but there's a body on the floor with bloody spirals carved into the flesh and a voice on the phone that tells him to flee. Soon Murdoch is on the run, wanted by the police, a woman who claims to be his wife and a group of mysterious pale men who seem to control everyone and everything in the city... except him.
With a cast that includes Kiefer Sutherland (The Lost Boys), William Hurt (A History of Violence), Jennifer Connelly (Phenomena) and Richard O'Brien (The Rocky Horror Picture Show), and a script by Proyas, Lem Dobbs (Kafka) and David S. Goyer (Batman Begins), Dark City is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma, filmed through a lens of film noir and German expressionism... an extraordinary feast for the cinematic senses.
Our Volunteer, Liam says: "Like many cult films Dark City had a rough go of it when released. The first theatrical version was heavily changed by the studio. However it persisted as cinema goers resonated with its noir look and fantastical style. Richard O’Brian as Mr Hand is worth the price of admission alone. Just aesthetically it’s a film that you just want to see more of, this strange world that always feels out of time. It’s a film that doesn’t spoon feed you, it trusts the audience to solve the mystery too. When you do you’re rewarded with a phenomenal sci-fi pay off that sticks with you."
