Coming Home in the Dark

A one and a half-hour gut-punch, Coming Home in the Dark is bleak, tense, and often unshakable. It sticks with you; haunts you. Leaves you feeling restless. Anxiety-inducing and frequently unpleasant, it travels down dark roads, and while you can likely guess the destination, getting there is no less unnerving.

– Critic Chris Evangelista, on website Slash Film, in a 7.5 out of 10 review, 31 January 2021

It is unrelenting, with the story taking a series of hard lefts.

– Actor Daniel Gillies on playing desperate stranger Mandrake in thriller Coming Home In The Dark, Stuff, 1 February 2021

It haunted me, but I didn’t initially know how to bring it to life.

– Writer/director James Ashcroft on his desire to turn short story Coming Home In the Dark into a feature, after the film's premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, 31 January 2021

It is a fairly welcoming, friendly place. But there’s also something quite terrifying about our landscape as well —especially at night.

– Writer/director James Ashcroft on the sinister feel of New Zealand's landscapes at night, quoted in Stuff, 1 February 2021

I should introduce myself shouldn'it I. I'm Mandrake...I'm a magician. I make things disappear.

– Mandrake (Daniel Gillies) makes his introduction