Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

I recently saw this movie on DVD. Apparently I'm one of the few who like it. The director of photography did a great job! Kevin Howarth is brilliant as Mortimer Shade. He plays a silent, scary role whom you probably wouldn't like in real life. He does it very well. I also liked Matt Lucas as Dr. Elgin. I didn't like Luke Goss, half the time he sits in his bathtub. Maybe you can't follow when you see this movie one time, but when you see it a few times its very clear. The only thing that should have been better are the actor's names in the beginning, its very hard to read them. Its worth seeing. I think its a good movie but hey who am I :)

This movie is a complete dog, cant believe I insisted on staying up in the forlorn hope that it would get better as it progressed. We Brits are simply atrocious at making movies and this piece of crap does nothing more than reinforce this opinion in me. Yes there have been some great features to have left these shores, but as far as this movie fan is concerned, they are very few and way too far apart. I love movies, especially since TV is so dumbed down it's rarely worth turning it on other than for the news or a documentary of any kind which I believe we are exceptionally great at. But I could find no redeeming qualities in this beast of a movie at all. I guess Luke Goss may get some criticism for his acting abilities from some, personally I think the guy did OK. The real problem is the story and the script, complete and utter bollox on both counts. Me thinks they spent most of the budget on the chopper they hired for the aerial shots.

Hip little flick with some ballsy ambition. The director is a guy to watch. The plot was a little twisted, but watch it twice and it gets better. Matt Lucas as Dr. Elgin was a brilliant piece of casting. Kevin Howarth I'd already seen in Last Horror Picture, but in Cold & dark he really gets to flex his acting chops. His performance is mesmerising. Luke Goss plays a good number, very mean and moody. Kinda like Jason Statham. I liked the way Andrew Goth goes for the cinematic shot. This guy shoots for the big screen and it works. But you can feel the tension against the low budget cutting in. There was just not enough time to flesh the good stuff out. Great gore FX in some scenes. The cottage blood bath worked a treat! The team behind this film have got something. I'll track 'em. A Gothic Western next? Cool.

I've been following this film for awhile, waiting for it's release after reading some blurbs on the net, and I was not disappointed. Sure, it's a low budget independent affair, but like previous reviewers here have said, this film certainly shows a lot of promise. "Cold and Dark" is the mainly DARK story of two British cops, one of whom is infected with some sort of creature that allows him to take out bad guys that he and his partner have been trying to get. I really liked the tone of this movie, and certainly the black humor (which it's fairly dripping with), and the pacing is really the kind that you don't see in films anymore these days. The opening introductions to the two main characters (played by ex-Brit pop star Luke Goss and Kevin Howarth) for example plays like a verbal ballet (and is shot and edited as such) leading up to the moment, fairly early in the pic where things really start turning ugly. And they really DO turn ugly (gore fans rejoice). The performances, overall, were good, with special mention going to Matt Lucas (from the UK comedy show "Little Britain") as the sometimes zany / sometimes creepy paranormal investigator, and Kevin Howarth as the bad cop gone worse. The only real disappointment was the way the story is rushed through the last act; you really don't get a breather at all as things wind-up to the slightly open conclusion (sequel?), but all- in-all the direction, writing and make-up really pull you through. Looking forward to the reported next feature from this team, "The Wretched". It's supposed to be a kind of horror western, and I can see from some scenes in "Cold and Dark" that the director (aptly named Andrew Goth) is kinda building up to that: harmonica theme music and one or two long distance show-down scenes. Hopefully with a little more cash behind them, they'll be able to knock this one out of the park.