Cast and crews in Dark Skies 2013:
Dark Skies(2013) is an American science fiction horror film written and directed by Scott Stewart. The movie stars Kerri Russell, Josh Hamilton etc.
Table of Contents
- Cast and crews in Dark Skies 2013:
- ‘Here I am, still shining; even as the night tries to swallow me.’
- Plot Analysis of Dark Skies 2013:
- Mystery Begins in Dark Skies 2013:
- Last Battle in Dark Skies 2013:
- The reason Dan couldn’t get any job…
- Sam was afraid of his father’s leaving…
- Jessie’s secret thing…
- Birds are the proof…
- The aliens…
‘Here I am, still shining; even as the night tries to swallow me.’
-Crosby
Plot Analysis of Dark Skies 2013:
Lacy Berret and Daniel Berret live with their two sons in a suburban American city. Scene starts with Daniel barbequing porks and their younger child is playing with a lizard that is a lil’ bit sick so Sammy is gonna nurse it until it gets back to good health.
Lacy calls Jessie to join their family party. Jessie is with his friend who did a lot of adult deeds like kissing. When there is a kissing scene, playing on TV, Jessie feels something. Something that an adolescent will feel.
Daniel tries to be a strict father that upsets Jessie. He always focuses on his faults, that’s why they both carry a harsh relationship. Daniel is unemployed and Lacy is a real estate agent. At night he expects some closeness from his wife but she is pretty busy with her real estate work so it does piss Daniel off for that moment.
Jessie and Sammy share a good relationship. They both talk over walkie at night. Jessie read him stories. Lacy checks everyone whether they are asleep or not. Suddenly she notices her fridge door is open and everything inside is messing around outside.
She gets scared and goes to check what creature did it but finds nothing. In the morning, they are discussing it. Dani says maybe it’s a large rabbit. But Lacy is not bothered by the fact at all! She is thinking…
‘What kind of animal eats all the lettuce but leaves the bacon?’
Jessie is bothering Sammy saying it, a mutant lizard who is mad at him for imprisoning her offspring. Dani is going for an interview. Lacy has a second show at two and Dani promises her to show up before that.
But he gets rejected again because of being laid off from Jacobson but he lies to Lacy. At night Lacy closes the door tightly, and notices her sons are talking with each other with walkie. She sends them to sleep and falls asleep.
At night, she wakes up having a bad dream and checks every room. Suddenly she gets a shock seeing a sculpture made of her kitchen products. At night who made this she doesn’t understand. A hand touches her and she gets jumpscares.
Nothing to be worried about, it was Sammy. Lacy asks Sammy who did this. Sammy tells the sandman has done it after leaving his room. Lacy just stares at him making a shocked face.
The police say there is no forced entry. Police suspects two cases. One is maybe whoever is doing it has the key of the house or it’s someone in the house. No one from the house is doing it.
Police say we got a case that their child is a sleep eater. She sleepwalks and eats all the food in the kitchen. Children do crazy things so maybe your child is a lil’ bit brilliant.
A family comes to watch Lacy’s house because she wants to sell it. At night Lacy asks about the interview and Dani says he doesn’t think he is gonna make it. Lacy gets depressed because he lied to her. Dani says he didn’t want to give her bad news but Lacy doesn’t buy that.
She screams and Sammy hears it. He contacts her brother and Jessie tells him to sleep. Sammy thinks her father is gonna leave. That night suddenly the alarm gets rung and everyone wakes up and gets outside to check. Like everyday they find nothing but some strange things happen.
The alarm says the intruder tries to enter from every gate of the house. But that isn’t possible so it’s a system malfunction. But lacy sees every photo vanish from the photo frame. They don’t understand what is happening.
Mystery Begins in Dark Skies 2013:
Dani and Lacy sit with their kids to talk about this. Jessie says he was asleep so he didn’t take the photos. Sammy says that he didn’t take it but the sandman did it. Dani gets furious.
Lacy tells him to stop because they don’t care about the photos anymore. There is more concerning matter in front of them now. Sammy needs treatment like seeing a shrink. That afternoon Dani takes Sammy to play with other kids. Dani ignores other guardians and suddenly he sees Sammy peed on himself.
Dani takes him away. Conversely, Lacy is organising the room and suddenly she sees a picture of a sandman drawn by Sammy. Suddenly a bird gets hurt hitting their window. She is about to open the window and suddenly plenty of birds start coming and hitting their house. Lace gets so scared he calls the police to get the house cleaned.
Police predict it could be some kind of outbreak or maybe it could be some kind of environmental cause like a storm or lightning. Dani and Lacy sit with Sammy and ask gently why he was afraid in the park. Sammy says he can’t remember anything.
Dani decides they are going to the therapist tomorrow and he will figure out how to manage the money. At night Lacy wakes up at midnight and sees everything normal. She hears sounds of someone talking while passing Sam’s room. She finds a slick shadowy figure in his room. She switches on and finds none.
Dani and Lacy find Sam nowhere in the house. Suddenly Dani sees Sam is getting outside. He rushes to him and hugs him. They rescue Sam and lie him into bed. Dani asks Lacy if she saw someone then where he had gone and how he entered.
Because everything was locked and when Sam was outside, even then they had been locked too. Lacy asks if he is not believing her. Dani believes her but whatever is happening doesn’t make any sense at all. Dan finds a lot of sores behind his ear.
Jessie is busy doing his secret thing. There is a girl who is their family friend. He tells her not to tell her mom and dad about this place. The girl asks what he can do for her. Jessie repeats the scene that he saw on tv.
The girl reacts vigorously but she understands Jessie is still virgin and never kissed a girl. So she calms herself down and kisses him. Jessie gets so freaking happy but gets a little scared while going along the road.
Dani and Lacy, placing CCTV cameras in every room. At night everyone is asleep but Dan keeps him awake till some hours but later falls asleep too. In the morning, Dan finds an interesting thing, every room’s footage gets blurred periodically.
Later we see Lacy dealing with her clients. Suddenly her mouth gets stuck and she can’t talk and starts hitting her head suddenly in the front wall. When she wakes up, gets relieved because it was a nightmare.
She takes a shower but surprisingly notices a wound in her head. At that moment she gets a call from her boss. Her client complains against her exactly what she saw in the nightmare. Pete, her boss, fires her up. She is gonna request but the line gets closed.
The environment agency says the birds are avian flu negative and usually birds come from one direction but these birds came from three different directions. It seems someone sent those towards your house.
Lacy searches it on google and finds if any country does conspiracy against any country. It can’t be the reason. And there is another reason when aliens visit the earth. Lacy finds some photos on the internet and those exactly like Sammy’s drawing.
Dan gets a job and after all these days seeing Dan happy, she can’t tell what she knows. At night Lacy doesn’t find Dan, she comes downstairs and sees him standing outside. She gets in front of him and sees his mouth is wide open and his nose is bleeding. Suddenly he walks back to the house but he doesn’t know how he got there.
Lacy tells him what happened with her earlier and how these things are happening. It’s alien. A five year old whom Lacy finds on the internet vanished. Sam drew the same kinda thing. But Dan says just because we can’t explain anything doesn’t mean aliens are responsible.
Sammy goes to the swimming pool with other kids. Shelly is gonna take off her shirt but she stops because everywhere of his body, there are a lot of marks of beating.
Jessie was walking with Ratner. Rat asks him if he kisses her and motivates him to go downtown. Suddenly Ratner shoots him with a toy pistol. Jessie runs into the middle of the jungle and gets a seizure attack.
Last Battle in Dark Skies 2013:
Doctor says they have found geometrical shapes in his body. Dan gets furious at Ratner thinking he is responsible for his son’s sickness. On the other hand Karen, Lacy’s friend, gets Sammy to home and Karen hates Lacy for being cruel to her child.
Lacy fights with Dan for not believing what she said earlier that night. At night Dan has a nightmare like Sammy’s eyes go black. Dan wakes up and checks the CCTV camera and finds some shadowy figures. He lies beside Lacy and utters the most beautiful words.
‘Do you remember right after Jesse was born, and he was so sick? The doctors didn’t know what it was, and they told us all we could do was wait until morning to see if he was gonna be OK. That was the longest night of my life. I didn’t know if I was gonna kiss a child or bury one in the morning.
They go to doctor Pollard who is an alien specialist. He asks them if they experienced any unexplained wound or allergy, if they have blackouts. He knows everything about aliens.
Dogs can sense aliens so Lacy buys the dog and keeps it with them. Dan buys a gun. They board every window. They stick together. At night aliens come and they all fight. Alien plays on tv something, Lacy goes there. Aliens lock her and attack Sam and Jessie. Their father saves them and comes to Lacy but at the end they take Jessie instead of Sammy.
When Lacy is arranging Jessie’s things, she finds that aliens actually targeted Jessie not Sammy because Jessie has an allergy. Suddenly the walkie they used to talk through starts to respond and they all look at that surprisingly.
The reason Dan couldn’t get any job…
Daniel got discharged from his job because of cash flow issues. That’s why the entire team was let go. They laid him off. When an employee gets laid off, usually other companies think ill of him. They think maybe he is not reliable. That’s why no one allows them to join. So Daniel couldn’t get any job.
Sam was afraid of his father’s leaving…
Sammy listens to his parents argue most often. His friend Tau tells his parents argue all the time. That’s why his father leaves them and he can see him once in the weekend. Children in America are always afraid of separation. No child wants separation. So Sammy is sad about that matter.
Jessie’s secret thing…
In America, they belong to a completely different culture. Teenagers there start their drug and sexual journey so early compared to Asian kids. In Asia, parents give their child a strict life and in America it is not like that. Teens make a secret place where only teens go. Adults are not allowed.
Birds are the proof…
Birds migrate from one Country to another to breed and to find suitable homes. They always go in one direction. Never ever two flocks get their species mixed up. The birds hit their house that day, they were coming from three different directions. So it’s very unusual.
The aliens…
Something is interfering with earth’s geomagnetic fields. That is causing the birds to veer. There is something to do with the government that they are testing some kind of super secret weapons technology.
Other people think it’s something else. It’s alien. A lot of people are experiencing what they are experiencing now. The picture Sammy drew is exactly the same kind of picture a five year old child drew which Lacy finds on the internet. So they were from other planets.
‘Two possibilities exist….
Either we are alone in the universe or we are not.
Both are equally terrifying.’
–Arthur C. Clarke
