Never After Dark

Florida Premiere

Never After Dark

DATE: Tuesday, August 11
TIME: 9:00PM
VENUE: Classic Gateway Theater

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2026

Japan

105 min

Dave Boyle

Dave Boyle

Moeka Hoshi, Kurumi Inagaki, Kento Kaku

Fresh off winning the Audience Award at SXSW Film Festival, NEVER AFTER DARK is a ghostly chillfest that follows you home and keeps you staring into the darkness long after the credits roll.

Airi lives between worlds. As a gifted medium, she helps restless spirits trapped between life and death find peace, guided by the ghostly presence of her late sister. But when she’s called to a remote countryside home to confront a grotesque entity unlike anything she has ever encountered, a routine exorcism quickly spirals into a terrifying ordeal. The spirit refuses to yield. The rituals fail. And with every passing moment, Airi begins to suspect that the true evil lurking within the isolated house may not belong to the dead at all.

Set amid an eerily beautiful rural landscape and drenched in suffocating atmosphere, NEVER AFTER DARK delivers nerve-shredding suspense, haunting imagery, and escalating dread that tightens like a vise. Evoking the unsettling isolation of THE SHINING while carving out a chilling identity all its own, this masterfully crafted supernatural thriller reminds us that the most terrifying monsters aren’t always hiding in the shadows—they may be standing right beside us.

YEAR: 2026

COUNTRY: Japan

RUNTIME: 105 min

DIRECTOR: Dave Boyle

WRITER: Dave Boyle

STARRING: Moeka Hoshi, Kurumi Inagaki, Kento Kaku

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