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While traveling through the desert, newlyweds pick up a car-wreck survivor who plunges them into a night of suspicion and suspense. Thomas Jane (The Mist, Hung) makes his directorial debut with Dark Country. On one hand, I admire his attempt to blend film noir with comic book aesthetics, but the movie relies on constant green-screen work that’s poorly executed. The script by Tab Murphy is well constructed, but I feel like we’ve probably seen a few episodes of The Twilight Zone or Tales from the Darkside that feature the same general concept that Dark Country hangs its hat on. And it’s always disappointing when you guess the big twist ending twenty minutes into the movie. Good performances by Jane and Lauren German as the newlyweds, though. The best scene in the movie is an early one in which the two turn the headlights off and floor it to ninety while he fingers her to orgasm.