Darclight is an exciting label devoted to showcasing the best in the horror, thriller and action genres from around the world.

Darclight Films was formed in 2004 as the genre division of Arclight Films. The Darclight banner encompasses a wide variety of genres including horror, thriller and action feature films, with recent successes being horror films Wolf Creek, Perfect Creature and the upcoming Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror, and action film Body Armour.

LONG WEEKEND

Starring Jim Caviezel, Long Weekend is much more than a story of a couple attempting to resurrect their failing marriage: Peter and Marcia set out on a camping trip to a deserted stretch of the Australian coastline in the hope that a long weekend in the sunshine will help them... More >

ACOLYTES

James Tresswick and Mark Vincent are victims of a brutal bully Gary Parker who has maltreated both boys, marking their bodies and spoiling their young lives. In their last year of high school, James and Mark find a way to stop being victims. They're going to kill Gary... More >

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Gary Hamilton
Managing Director
gary@arclightfilms.com
Pascal Borno
President, Sales & Acquisitions
Lina Marrone
VP International Sales
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Ying Ye
Managing Director,
Easternlight Films
ying@arclightfilms.com

NEWSLETTER SIGNUP

'Witchblade' sharpened for bigscreen

Platinum Studios, Top Cow Prods. and Arclight Films will team on a live-action feature adaptation of "Witchblade," based on the Top Cow comicbook franchise.

The comicbook introduced the Witchblade mythology, which centers on an ornate jewel-encrusted gauntlet that gives extraordinary powers to the wearer, a specially chosen female from each generation.

Pic will be produced by Arclight's Gary Hamilton and Nigel Odell, Platinum Studios' Scott Mitchell Rosenberg and Steve Squillante of Havenwood Media. Top Cow's Marc Silvestri and Matt Hawkins will be exec producers with Platinum Studios' Rich Marincic and Greenberg Group's Randy Greenberg. More >

Jim Caviezel taking Long Weekend

Jim Caviezel will star in Arclight Films' remake of 1978 Australian suspense thriller "Long Weekend."

Arclight topper Gary Hamilton and Nigel Odell will produce and Jamie Blanks ("Urban Legend," "Storm Warning") will direct. Lensing is scheduled to commence in Australia in mid-November.

Everett de Roche script centers on a young couple on a camping trip who disregard the local environment by shooting guns and wounding animals until the wildlife starts to hit back. More >

Lynch to direct Surveillance

Marking her first film since Boxing Helena in 1993, Jennifer Lynch will direct Pell James, Bill Pullman and Julia Ormond in indie supernatural thriller Surveillance.

Lynch, who penned the script with Kent Harper, begins lensing later this month in Canada. Marco Mehlitz's Lago Film (Just Friends, The Devil's Rejects) is producing. Filmmaker David Lynch is exec producing and helping finance.

Also starring Ryan Simpkins, French Stewart and Cheri Oteri. Storyline revolves around an FBI agent who goes to a small town, where everyone lies and no one is safe. Read more >