A month of insane terror leads to a night of bloody revenge!
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Kudos for trying a more character-led approach than most low budget horrors of the day (with that and it’s occasionally creepy small-town atmosphere might make it a good double bill partner with John Hancock’s far superior Let’s Scare Jessica to Death (1971)) but the characters just aren’t all that interesting. … Dark August feels like very much a missed opportunity. It looks great, is built on a decent enough idea but it never gets enough “oomph” to make much of that idea.
Kevin Lyons, The EOFFTV Review (2022)
Selected disc options for Dark August
| Extras | Arrow BD-ALL/US 2019 |
|---|---|
| Audio Commentary by Director/Co-Writer Martin Goldman | has extra |
| The Hills Are Alive: “Dark August” and Vermont Folk Horror - With Stephen R. Bissette | has extra |
| Don’t Mess with the Psychic - Interview with Producer Marianne Kanter | has extra |
| Mad Ave to Mad Dogs - Interview with Director/Co-Writer Martin Goldman | has extra |
| Revisiting “Dark August” - Interview with Stephen Thrower | has extra |
| Original Press Book | has extra |
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Notes
- Arrow’s Blu-ray is included in the “American Horror Project, Volume Two” box set with Dream No Evil (1970) and The Child (1977). It contains a 60-page booklet with writing by Stephen R. Bissette (“The Gods of the Hills: Dark August and Vermont Folk Horror”), Travis Crawford (“I Don’t Have to Tell You Anything: Exploring the Enigmas of ‘The Child’”) and Amanda Reyes (“I’m Thinking That You’re Not Even Here at All: Exploring Loss, Grief, and the American Gothic in ‘Dream No Evil’”).