The Dark Hour / La Hora Fría

[EvilNed]

This is a spanish horror- scifi film from 2006. It's set in an underground bunker after a horrible nuclear war that's destroyed most of mankind and left most of the survivors wandering zombies called the "Strangers".

Sounds cool, doesn't it? It is, really, but there's so much confusion going on. Apart from the zombies there are ALSO ghosts? Which freeze stuff? Anyway...

Spoiler alert!

Anyway, the film, while it had a great and awesome premise, was just too... Confusing. It felt as the first part of two, where everything was set up for a huge cliffhanger and then it was supposed to be explained in the sequel. Except there was never any plans for a sequel, ever. It's never explained why there are dangerous ghosts lurking around freezing stuff. It's never explained where the virus came from, really. Well, you think it's been explained until the final 10 seconds of the film and ALL explanations just get thrown out the window.

What was with that ending!? What does them being on the moon have to do with anything? I thought the destroyed earth was a nice touch, but does that mean it was Earth vs. The Moon? Or that the moon colony was independent from the nuclear war? And if so, where did the virus come from? And again, WHERE THE HELL DID THE GHOSTS COME FROM!?

[darth los]

This is a spanish horror- scifi film from 2006. It's set in an underground bunker after a horrible nuclear war that's destroyed most of mankind and left most of the survivors wandering zombies called the "Strangers".

Sounds cool, doesn't it? It is, really, but there's so much confusion going on. Apart from the zombies there are ALSO ghosts? Which freeze stuff? Anyway...

Spoiler alert!

Anyway, the film, while it had a great and awesome premise, was just too... Confusing. It felt as the first part of two, where everything was set up for a huge cliffhanger and then it was supposed to be explained in the sequel. Except there was never any plans for a sequel, ever. It's never explained why there are dangerous ghosts lurking around freezing stuff. It's never explained where the virus came from, really. Well, you think it's been explained until the final 10 seconds of the film and ALL explanations just get thrown out the window.

What was with that ending!? What does them being on the moon have to do with anything? I thought the destroyed earth was a nice touch, but does that mean it was Earth vs. The Moon? Or that the moon colony was independent from the nuclear war? And if so, where did the virus come from? And again, WHERE THE HELL DID THE GHOSTS COME FROM!?


As one of the few/only hispanics here I felt an urge to say that the Dark hour translates into: La noche oscura.

La noche fria tranlates into: The cold night.


Is it vitally important? Probably not.

But in the interest of posterity i thought i would share. ;)

:cool:

[EvilNed]

Thank you for the correction! However, the original title for the film is La Hora Fría (The Cold Hour), but the english title is for some unknown and stupid reason The Dark Hour. Once one has seen the film, The Cold Hour makes much more sense than The Dark Hour... But I digress... Maybe the guys who translated the title weren't that good at Spanish. :p