This Scottish potboiler thriller centering on a long-in-the-making rendezvous between a psychic named Simon (Shane O’Meara) and a crazed serial killer (James Robinson) has some fun moments, but its cloaked villain with a bloodthirsty religious bent awkwardly recalls Dan Brown’s silly, self-flagellating albino-monster-monk in The Da Vinci Code. After Britain’s MI5 intelligence agency determines that Simon and his powerful clairvoyant abilities pose a national security threat, officials take Simon and the war veteran (Jim Sturgeon) who he’s hired as a bodyguard into custody, where flabbergasted authorities try to reconcile how young nobody Simon knows state secrets absent of any apparent surveillance. Director Magnus Wake (is that a fine name for a horror director, or what?) does a solid job of building momentum throughout Dark Secrets, and the scenes in which Simon suffers phantom agonies in advance of the killer’s arrival are effective. But that boogeyman—who is preoccupied with the most gruesome of Christian imagery and has his face encrusted in some thick mud mask or whatever—is a disappointment. Optional. (T. Keogh)
Dark Sense
Breaking Glass, 94 min., not rated, DVD: $24.99 Volume 34, Issue 5
Dark Sense
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