A twisted gothic horror starring Emilia Clarke, WHEN DARKNESS LOVES US is acclaimed genre filmmaker James Ashcroft’s thrilling adaptation of the cult 1985 novella.
Allie Hixon (Clarke) falls into an abandoned mine beneath her family’s farm and is presumed dead. Surviving in the suffocating dark for fifteen years, she adapts to the brutal underworld – until she finally claws her way back to the surface, only to find her former fiancé Michael (Williams) married to her younger sister Maggie (Pedretti) and the life she knew gone forever.
Battling PTSD, Allie tries to reintegrate with the help of her mother Cora (McElhone), but is suffocated by public scrutiny and dismissed as unstable. Her obsession with reclaiming what was taken from her pushes her to the brink of madness – and back underground, where her most chilling secret awaits: Allie did not survive those fifteen years alone, and what – or who – she left behind in the darkness is not content to stay there alone…
