And Soon the Darkness

11/20/2013

Daylight Dread. Jane (Pamela Franklin) and Cathy (Michele Dotrice) are a couple of British nurses taking a bicycle vacation through rural France. When they have an argument, Jane storms off ahead leaving Cathy sunbathing on the grass. Later on Jane returns but can find no trace of Cathy, stuck in a foreign land and unable to speak the language, Jane soon finds herself in grave danger as she searches frantically for her lost friend. The title is about the protagonist trying to resolve a mystery/terror situation before the darkness falls. Film is completely set in daylight time, with a very limited amount of characters, and no extended bouts of dialogue. Looking at it from the outside, you would not be thought of as ignorant for expecting this to not be frightening or thrilling, yet it

5/18/2026

**_Two English girls bicycling through the French farmlands takes a dark turn_** This is a good flick to get a feel for rural France. Petite Michele Dotrice is a highlight as the blonde while winsome Pamela Franklin is strapped with a dubious short haircut. She looks best in a movie she made the next year with a full brunette mane, “Necromancy,” featuring Orson Welles. Less than two years earlier Pamela shot another film in rural France, albeit the northern coast. I’m talking about “The Night of the Following Day” with Marlon Brando. Take that film and mix in elements of “In the Devil’s Garden” and it’ll give you an idea of what this movie offers. It was remade forty years later with Amber Heard, Odette Annable and Karl Urban, albeit switching the setting to American girls tourin