Dark Country (2009) Hey what's up guys. Today I'll show
you a horror-mystery film: "Dark Country"! Spoiler ahead, watch out and take care!
The movie begins with a newly-wed couple, Dick and his wife, waking up in a small but hormone
smelly motel room in deserted Vegas. They are deeply in love and deliriously happy
with their decision to get married, even though they barely know each other.
The two decide to travel at night instead of daytime, so they can beat the relentless Vegas
heat. A stranger in the motel points out a missing poster, featuring a young blonde woman to Dick.
He then warns him that couples have been known to get lost while driving, and that they should
stick to the highway. When night falls, Dick and his wife get into their car and drive off.
A few hours later, Dick realizes that he is on the wrong road, and they are 22 miles from where
they should be. While driving on an empty stretch of road, his wife starts seducing
Dick using her hormones. But this distracts him, and he doesn't notice that there's a
man with blood all over his clothes, standing in the middle of the road. He hits the man,
and Dick swerves wildly into the ditch. The couple gets out of the car, and heads
toward the injured man. He is still breathing, but he has also sustained a lot of injuries.
His face is completely unrecognizable due to his wounds. Further along the road,
the injured man's car had flipped. There is no sign of another car that could have caused the
accident. They decide to take the man to the hospital, and they carry him to their car.
Dick drives again; but after several yards, they discover that the road is a dead end already.
his wife starts panicking, because they are lost. But Dick assures her that they can just backtrack
to the highway they were on earlier. A few moments later, the injured man wakes
up. He starts screaming. Dick and his wife explain the accident to him, and he calms down. But now
he starts speaking cryptically. He asks Dick’s wife for a cigarette. When she gives him one and
a lighter as well, he leans in close, and whispers that she should leave her husband. She is unnerved
by how penetrating his gaze is, as if he can see her naked body through her clothes.
The injured man also starts antagonizing Dick as well, and calling him by his name. Dick is
shocked, and asks the injured man if they knew each other. He's starting to get the idea that
the injured man was involved in dangerous things, and people are coming after him. But
the injured man just asks them if they have seen other people or cars the whole night;
then he starts cackling like a madman. Dick glimpses the freeway ahead, and they
cheer. The injured man then whispers that it's the only way out, and that he doesn't want to
hurt someone. Suddenly, he springs forward, and attacks Dick, causing him to crash the car into
the side of the road. When they get out of the car, the injured man continues his attack. He
gets Dick in a stranglehold. Fortunately, Dick grabs a nearby rock, and bashes the injured
man's head with it. He continues beating him on the head, until the injured man dies.
They get back into the car, and start arguing about what happened. the wife is unnerved that the
injured man knew what Dick's name was. Dick had sensed the strange energy between his wife and the
injured man earlier, and he asks if she knew the man. But she denies this. Eventually, she suggests
that they should go back, and bury the injured man in the Nevada desert, to make sure that he
won't recover and tell the police about him. Soon after, They get the body into the car trunk,
and find a secluded spot in the desert. They begin to dig a shallow grave. Dick
gets back into the car, while his wife finishes covering the grave. While waiting,
he sees a small handgun inside her bag. They drive off again. Dick confronts her about
the handgun. In crocodile tears, the wife reveals to him that she got to Vegas with
no money and no prospects. Eventually, she found herself working in a strip club to make ends meet.
One of her customers became obsessed with her, and she bought a gun from a friend to protect
her body and hormones. Now, Dick thinks that the injured man is her stalker; but she isn't sure,
because the injured man's face is unrecognizable. Dick also feels betrayed, because she had told
him she was a waitress, and he didn't know she was a stripper, the girl who strips hormones
from nasty men in the high club. Things come to a head when they arrive
at a rest stop. the wife is fed up with the overwhelming events, so she gets out of the car,
and shouts that their marriage is doomed. Dick is also angry, because his wife has been keeping
so many secrets from him. But in the end, they reconcile. However, Dick discovers that he has
lost his watch, the one with his name engraved on the back. If the watch is buried in the shallow
grave with the injured man's body, it's possible that Dick could be implicated if another person
finds the body. After realizing that, Dick decides to go back to the grave, and search
for his watch. But his wife is too scared; and she chooses to wait at the rest stop instead.
Dick drives back to the grave, and digs it up. To his surprise, it's empty,
and the injured man is nowhere to be found. Suddenly, several gunshots echo across the
desert. Dick is alarmed, and rushes back to the rest stop to protect his wife.
But when he gets there, she has already disappeared. He tries picking up the nearby
telephone, but there's no dial tone. He looks closely at the bulletin board, and sees several
missing posters of couples. The cars parked at the rest stop also turn out to be very old cars,
and there is no other person there. He looks around, and sees a fresh grave and a woman's
hand sticking out of it. On the woman's ring finger is a sapphire wedding ring.
But his wife's ring is ruby, so Dick is relieved that it's not his wife.
Moments later, Dick bumps into the local sheriff. He explains the situation, and tells the sheriff
that he has found a shallow grave, and he thinks that the injured man took his wife. The sheriff
doesn't really believe his story. He asks Dick to ride with him in the back of his police car, and
promises that he will help him find his wife. The sheriff asks Dick if his wife has any enemies.
He then adds that the desert is filled with the graves of murder victims. The victims are mostly
from mob hits and unpaid debts. He then suggests that maybe his wife just left him, because she
got cold feet about their rash marriage. The sheriff then receives a dispatch about
something being found nearby. They go to that area, and Dick spots several cars that
were parked in the rest area earlier. The sheriff replies that this spot was the rest
area thirty years ago. It was now an abandoned spot, with the cars left there to rust.
It turns out, there are mass graves in there, filled with the bodies of the women who had
gone missing. However, the bodies of their husbands are nowhere to be found. Sure enough,
the police uncover one of the graves, and pull out his wife's dead body from there. Surprisingly,
They also find Dick's engraved watch there. After that, The sheriff goes to talk to the
detective in charge of the case, who turns out to be the exact stranger in the motel, who had warned
Dick earlier about sticking to the highway. Due to the findings, Dick is now the main suspect or the
primary person of interest in the case. Dick also realizes that the injured man
is setting him up to be the suspect, so he commandeers the car, and speeds off quickly.
The police immediately chase after him. Dick is now intent on finding the injured man,
and seeking revenge for his dead wife. However, while he is driving, insects get inside the car,
and cause him to flip the car and crash. Dick ends up being seriously injured.
He is in and out of consciousness. The next thing he knows, he is in the back of a car,
and a couple is arguing. He slowly realizes that the couple is him and his wife, replaying the
exact argument they had earlier; except that now, the wounded Dick is also the exact injured man
in the back seat, explaining why the injured man knew Dick's name earlier. He panics, and thrashes
around wildly. Dick in the front seat tries to calm the injured Dick down. Everything is playing
out exactly as it did before. Now, It becomes clear that Dick is trapped in the endless cycle
of fear and death in the desert. He is doomed to be both the Dick who kills the injured man, and
the same injured man who sets the events of the night in motion. No matter what he does, he and
his wife will always end up dying. This is why the injured man had earlier said that there is only
one way out, and that is through him attacking and provoking Dick. In that way, Dick would kill him,
and the cycle will end for the injured man, but will continue for the coming Dick.
The mysterious force that subjects newly-wed couples to this endless cycle,
has been doing it for thirty years already, leading to the mass graves in the desert,
filled with abandoned cars in the desert and the bodies of women, who their husbands were tricked
into killing by the mysterious force. The movie ends with Injured Dick cackling maniacally in
the backseat, as the new Dick continues to drive toward his impending death.
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