Crime, Horror, Thriller  •  2021  •  93 min

Coming Home in the Dark (2021)

Coming Home in the Dark poster

Coming Home in the Dark (2021)


Rating & Dimensions

Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Center
Political: Center
Diversity: Moderate
Family Values: Mixed

Viewer Rating
6.8

Overview

A school teacher is forced to confront a brutal act from his past when a pair of ruthless drifters takes him and his family on a nightmare road-trip.


Starring Cast

Daniel Gillies  •   Erik Thomson  •   Miriama McDowell


Where to watch

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Detailed Bias Analysis

Analyzing...
Center

Primary

Political: Center
Confidence: Medium

The film explores the devastating consequences of unaddressed past child abuse and the cycle of revenge it engenders, focusing on individual psychological torment rather than advocating for specific political solutions or systemic critiques.

Diversity: Moderate
Confidence: High

The film features visible diversity in its cast, including a Māori actress in a prominent role. Its narrative, a dark thriller exploring themes of revenge and past trauma, does not explicitly center on or critique traditional identities.

Secondary

Family Values: Mixed
Confidence: High

The film portrays a nuclear family as the central victims of a violent revenge plot, focusing on their survival under duress. It does not offer a clear endorsement or critique of specific family structures or values, presenting family life without explicit ideological framing.

LGBTQ: N/R

There is not enough publicly available information for AI to assess this category for this movie.

Trans: N/A
Confidence: High

The film Coming Home in the Dark does not feature transsexual characters or themes. The narrative focuses on other aspects, with no identifiable elements related to transsexual identity or experiences present in the story.

Female Combat: N/R

The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.

Gender Swap: No
Confidence: Medium

The film is an original production and does not adapt characters from prior source material with established genders. No evidence indicates any character was previously established as a different gender.

Race Swap: No
Confidence: High

The film adapts a short story where the characters' races were not explicitly defined in the source material. Consequently, no character was canonically established as one race and then portrayed as a different race in the film.


Viewer Rating Breakdown

6.8

Viewer Rating

Combines user and critic ratings from four sources

User Ratings

IMDB logo
5.7
The Movie Database logo
5.7

Critic Ratings

Rotten Tomatoes logo
9.2
Metacritic logo
6.4

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