Product Details

• Actors: Frank Welch, Troy Mcleod, Lorna Pelkey
• Directors: Lucas Knight
• Producers: Frank Welch
• Format: Collector's Edition, Color, Full Screen, Full length, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: EDGE Productions
• Run Time: 49.0 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B000EG6D24
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #692,723 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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An "Occult Soap Opera", filmed in Northern Maine.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Dark Currents: An Occult Soap Opera, January 18, 2008

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Replacetvdisc "edgevideo" (Bangor, Maine USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dark Currents (VHS Tape)

Two young filmmakers in Mattawamkeag, Maine have carried low production values to a touchdown. The two episodes of the occult soap opera DARK CURRENTS left us delighted and, more important, wanting more (and more is forthcoming). With one camera, locations in and around their home town, and lively imaginations, writer-director-producer Lucas Knight and writer-producer-actor Frank Welch have created a valid, compelling vision of Maine.
Which is not to say that DARK CURRENTS is heading straight to the Emmys. Its debt to David Lynch's TWIN PEAKS is blatant, from plot to overarching world view. And the acting, sound and continuity leave no doubt that this is an amateur, volunteer creation.

But that's part of the appeal. It makes DARK CURRENTS funny (it's also funny by design) and more important, it speaks to credibility. Where suspension of disbelief falls short, identification with settings and participants kicks in. One can imagine oneself behind Knight's viewfinder and getting the same satisfaction from it that he, Welch and their cast of half a dozen or so friends obviously are.

The very best thing about DARK CURRENTS is that it's so Maine. The locations look familiar: The signature image is of a river in early spring, a flood of rough black water. There's a lot of empty land and a lot of apparent poverty or outright desolation. The voices are real Maine, an accent Hollywood's big bucks just can't buy.