Dark Skies

MOVIE #1,164 • 🍿🍿🍿 • 09.27.23 As we fast approach what should be a very fun and jampacked spooky month of movies (50 films in 31 days!), I'm mixing things up a bit here. Today’s WATCHLIST WEDNESDAY selections don’t actually come directly off my list (linkk). Instead, I am reviewing two movies with the exact same title of movies I critiqued one year ago to the day: Dark Waters (2019) and Dark Skies (2013). The more recent Skies is not a very good movie but from a technical standpoint it’s Citizen Kane compared to this impossibly dumb piece of garbage. I sometimes try to either find a contrarian angle or genuinely parse enjoyment from pictures of this quality. But there’s just not a lot of meat on the bone with this made-for-TV Canadian film.

Directed by Ron Oliver, who has to be one of the most prolific working directors (seriously, check out the DOZENS of films here… so many Lifetime Original Xmas movies!), Dark Skies (2009) is a cheaply made horror with an environmental message. It looks like this…


Honestly, the fact that I took the time out to cut a clip is giving this movie too much credit. It’s bad. My perverse fascination/impulse (insistence?) on watching movies that share the same title is a very bad trait and I should see someone about it. But there’s so many words out there to choose from, though. I simply don’t understand it!

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Dark Skies (2009) is a Canadian made-for-TV movie: A reclusive scientific prodigy and three college friends find themselves in the middle of a toxic storm, when an unscrupulous business deal rains terror down on an entire county. It was released on June 12, 2009.