Lovely, Dark, and Deep

2023

Action / Horror

16
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 35% · 37 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 35% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 4.9/10 10 2934 2.9K

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Plot summary

Lennon, a new back-country ranger, travels alone through the dangerous wilderness, hoping to uncover the origins of a tragedy that has haunted her since she was a child.

Director

Teresa Sutherland Photo
Teresa Sutherland

Top cast

Wai Ching Ho Photo
Wai Ching Ho as Zhang
Georgina Campbell Photo
Georgina Campbell as Lennon
Paul S. Tracey Photo
Paul S. Tracey as Ranger 1
Nick Blood Photo
Nick Blood as Jackson
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769.92 MB
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English 2.0
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25 fps
1 hr 23 min
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801.36 MB
1280*694
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 27 min
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1.54 GB
1920*1038
English 5.1
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25 fps
1 hr 23 min
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1.61 GB
1920*1040
English 5.1
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1 hr 27 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by aronharde 5 / 10

A fever dream in the wilderness

In 2023's "Lovely, Dark, and Deep" we are introduced to Lennon, a new back country ranger who is traveling through the wilderness hoping to uncover something from her past. The movie has some great shots of nature and there's a mystical feeling about the woods she is patrolling. She also meets another ranger and a lost woman in the woods. But for some reason the other Rangers don't seem to be pleased about her finding that woman and tell her to go home. The movie is much more complex and sadly that gets confusing quite fast. It felt like a fever dream with lots of unsettling noises and unique shots. The end result felt a little unfinished and the movie leaves too many unanswered questions. It's an overall decent watch but definitely won't suit everybody. [4,9/10]
Reviewed by aivilovee 4 / 10

Great premise, disappointing turn

This movie seemed really promising initially. A Ranger getting wrapped up in a missing person's case with her own missing loved one in her past? Sign me up.But it didn't go that route. Without spoiling too much, it decided to go a trippy, metaphorical route without establishing enough about this character and her own memories. It was just a scape of meaningless hallucinations for most of the movie. That kind of thing only works if there's a reality check often enough that we get scared questioning what's real and what's not. Instead, I was wondering when the unreal stuff was going to finally end.The ending was incredibly disappointing and overall mid. If you ask me, not worth the runtime. Watch The Ritual instead if you want spooky woods with a paranormal twist about grief.
Reviewed by FrederickThornborrow 2 / 10

Frustrating, confusing, and nonsensical

What a frustrating film.It seems to start with a decent premise, a woman becoming a park ranger to go to, and search, the park in which her sister went missing when they were kids. The protagonist in search of answers, certain something far more sinister took place than the authorities explanation.But the film plods along somewhat aimlessly, before culminating in a puzzling journey of self-pity, grief and past events that may or may not have occurred. Lennon has to decide, will she do what she's being asked or will she refuse and sacrifice herself instead?Well, as it turns out, she does neither.Lennon is freed from her predicament by someone else who makes the sacrifice for her and she then decides to help the evil malevolent forces that took her sister and attempted to take her.Why? Well, who knows. Her journey ends by finding no answers and becoming a willingly complicit party to aiding more mysterious disappearances.
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