Product Details

• Actors: Monica Keena, David Anders, Jessica Stroup, Travis Van Winkle, Tim Thomerson
• Directors: Steven R. Monroe
• Writers: Jane Whitney, Philip Daay
• Producers: Daisy Marco, John Duffy, John W. Hyde, Michael Dubelko, Morris Berger
• Format: Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo), English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
• DVD Release Date: September 19, 2006
• Run Time: 88 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000FS2W62
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #107,150 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Left in Darkness" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Her mother died in childbirth, and she always felt responsible for the tragedy. When her father disappeared, her grandparents raised her. As she got older, her sense of guilt grew deeper. And on the night of her 21st birthday, Celia (Monica Keena of FREDDY VS. JASON) is drugged, raped and dies of an accidental overdose at a wild college frat party. But for some, death is only the beginning: Trapped in a netherworld between sanctuary and damnation, Celia must now battle the demons — including hordes of horrific Soul Eaters — that prowl the Afterlife. Is the spirit of her recently deceased grandfather (Tim Thomerson of TRANCERS) trying to lure her to an eternity of suffering? Can her guardian angel (David Anders of ALIAS ) safely lead her to the other side? And for a young woman caught in limbo, is there any way to go towards the light when your soul is LEFT IN DARKNESS?

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars For a Direct to DVD, this is actually a fairly good story and movie, October 23, 2006

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FBRobertson "fbrobertson2" (SC United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Left in Darkness (DVD)

The story is really not that complicated and convoluted. A young girl meets an imaginary friend who would be there with her as she grows up. When she goes to a party at the age of 21 she is drugged, raped, and killed. But she doesn't go to heaven or hell, more like a world in between (something akin to the movie Jacob's Ladder) where there are angels and demons waiting to either help her or destroy her. What she goes through is a spirited battled with creatures that would possess the soul, ravage the soul, and enslave the soul. At first you want to tell the main character to stop running around like a chicken with a head cut off. But I digress, by the midpoint of the story, you are really drawn into the characters and the mystical and horrific world the young woman's soul is in. While this is not a Christian film, I would have to say that there are some overtones that could be considered "Christian" in some sense...such as the idea of spiritual warfare, the idea of there being demons and devils that want to tempt you, torture you, and bring you down to the ground; while there is a LIGHT that draws you toward it ("God" in a sense) that wants to bring you into salvation. Again, let me reiterate, this is not a Christian movie but it does have a lot of interesting overtones that really need to be examined and considered. I really enjoyed this movie (the movie isn't perfect, but I feel sure that it should be given five stars). I think that if you enjoy horror and if you enjoy intelligent horror even more so, then you'd get a real pleasure out of watching this movie.

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Unusual horror offering, January 19, 2007

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D. I. Shipley "David Shipley" (KENT United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Left in Darkness (DVD)

I saw this film on the Zone Horror channel a few nights back and was pleasantly surprised at how good it actually was.
Basically the plot sees a young girl - Celia(played by Monica Keenan) going to a party. There she gets slipped a date rape drug, gets raped, and dies as a result of overdosing on this drug. Coming too on another plane which is somewhere between Heaven and Hell, she is horrified to learn that she is dead. Worse this plane is full of zombie like 'Soul Eaters' who like nothing more than to snack out on the souls of the recently deceased if they can catch them... Among these soul eaters is the spirit of her deceased grandfather (Tim Thomerson - Near Dark, Trancers) who attempts to devour her soul by at first trying to trick her. Luckily for the deceased girl, there is a sanctuary of light created around the deceased which lasts for a few hours, and this light keeps these creatures at bay. However, the deceased can step out of it, and this light has the disconcerting habit of moving around every so often too.
Also on this strange plane of existence, Celia encounters a young man (played by David Anders) who appears to be a Guardian Angel of sorts and offers her help and advice in how to deal with the immediate danger and what she should do on a more long term basis. She also meets the souls of her mother and grandmother, and both also give her advice as to what she should do.

Having to make difficult and potentially damning choices, often in the heat of the moment, makes for a very difficult and dangerous experience, indeed. Just whose advice should Celia trust and are the beings that she encounters actually what they seem?
This is a tense and atmospheric little film with a very unusual setting and storyline which make it quite original in fact.
I actually quite enjoyed it and would recommend it to other viewers, wanting a horror film that is a little different.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Pleasant surprise, September 20, 2006

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Music lover in Omaha "music lover in Omaha" (Omaha, Ne) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Left in Darkness (DVD)

I had never heard of this movie before I picked it up at the video store. It definately is not the greatest movie ever made, but not a waste of time. The acting was sincere, if not great. The plot deals with a coed who goes to a frat party, gets drugged, raped and killed. It then becomes a story about where she is going to spend eternity and how she is going to get there. There are a couple predictable plot twists. Meeting her parents in the after life and her guardian angel and the soul eaters were all kind of hokey if given too much thought, but if you don't go too deeply into the flaws, you can enjoy it. All in all, I am okay with having watched it. Die hard fans of hard core horror will not like this one.