{"id":55926,"date":"2020-12-02T10:46:02","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T17:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=55926"},"modified":"2020-12-30T13:40:51","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T20:40:51","slug":"and-soon-the-darkness-1970","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=55926","title":{"rendered":"And Soon the Darkness (1970)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;It&#8217;s murder &#8212; the most unpredictable of crimes.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/And-Soon-the-Darkness-Poster.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/And-Soon-the-Darkness-Poster-195x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-55927\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/And-Soon-the-Darkness-Poster-195x300.png 195w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/And-Soon-the-Darkness-Poster-666x1024.png 666w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/And-Soon-the-Darkness-Poster-83x128.png 83w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/And-Soon-the-Darkness-Poster-176x270.png 176w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/And-Soon-the-Darkness-Poster.png 729w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nOn a bicycling trip across the French countryside, two student nurses (Pamela Martin and Michele Dotrice) part ways temporarily after a quibble &#8212; but soon Martin learns Dotrice has gone missing, and she is unsure whether or not to trust a young man (Sandor Eles) who claims to be an amateur sleuth.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Horror<\/li>\n<li>Mysterious Disappearance<\/li>\n<li>Road Trip<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary\u2019s Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nPeary writes that if &#8220;Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda convinced hippies not to cycle through America&#8217;s South&#8221; in <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=60491\"><em>Easy Rider<\/em><\/a>, then Martin and Dotrice &#8220;should convince young women not to bicycle through the French countryside &#8212; particularly if a sex maniac is on the loose.&#8221; He argues that while &#8220;certainly this thriller is no gem,&#8221; it &#8220;has some suspense and titillation, and, as always, Franklin is a sympathetic heroine-in-jeopardy.&#8221; Indeed, not too much happens in this slow-moving film about a couple of naive young travelers who really should have learned a bit more survival-French and decided on a safer route through unknown territory. With that said, director Robert Fuest generates a fair amount of tension through creative framing and pacing, and we&#8217;re left wondering until the end how plucky Franklin will get herself out of the mess she&#8217;s landed in.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pamela Martin as Jane<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/And-Soon-the-Darkness-Martin.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/And-Soon-the-Darkness-Martin.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"352\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-55932\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/And-Soon-the-Darkness-Martin.png 624w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/And-Soon-the-Darkness-Martin-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/And-Soon-the-Darkness-Martin-128x72.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/And-Soon-the-Darkness-Martin-479x270.png 479w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Fine direction and cinematography<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/And-Soon-the-Darkness-Direction.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/And-Soon-the-Darkness-Direction.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"352\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-55928\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/And-Soon-the-Darkness-Direction.png 624w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/And-Soon-the-Darkness-Direction-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/And-Soon-the-Darkness-Direction-128x72.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/And-Soon-the-Darkness-Direction-479x270.png 479w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/And-Soon-the-Darkness-Direction2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/And-Soon-the-Darkness-Direction2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"352\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-55929\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/And-Soon-the-Darkness-Direction2.png 624w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/And-Soon-the-Darkness-Direction2-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/And-Soon-the-Darkness-Direction2-128x72.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/And-Soon-the-Darkness-Direction2-479x270.png 479w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/And-Soon-the-Darkness-Direction3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/And-Soon-the-Darkness-Direction3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"352\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-55930\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/And-Soon-the-Darkness-Direction3.png 624w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/And-Soon-the-Darkness-Direction3-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/And-Soon-the-Darkness-Direction3-128x72.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/And-Soon-the-Darkness-Direction3-479x270.png 479w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo, but it&#8217;s worth a one-time viewing. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0065398\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moriareviews.com\/horror\/and-soon-the-darkness-1970.htm\">Moria Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1971\/04\/05\/archives\/screen-2-british-girls-and-soon-the-darkness-opens-at-2-theaters.html\">NY Times Original Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s murder &#8212; the most unpredictable of crimes.&#8221; Synopsis: On a bicycling trip across the French countryside, two student nurses (Pamela Martin and Michele Dotrice) part ways temporarily after a quibble &#8212; but soon Martin learns Dotrice has gone missing, and she is unsure whether or not to trust a young man (Sandor Eles) who claims to be an amateur sleuth. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Horror Mysterious Disappearance Road Trip Response to Peary\u2019s Review: Peary writes that if &#8220;Dennis&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=55926\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responses-to-peary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55926"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60524,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55926\/revisions\/60524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}