Hold the Dark

Hold the Dark is a 2018 American action thriller film directed by Jeremy Saulnier from a screenplay by Macon Blair. It is based upon the novel of the same name by William Giraldi. The film stars Jeffrey Wright, Alexander Skarsgård, James Badge Dale, Riley Keough, Tantoo Cardinal, and Julian Black Antelope. The film had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 12, 2018 and was released on September 28, 2018, by Netflix. Plot In December 2004, Medora Slone (Riley Keough) summons Russell Core (Jeffrey Wright) to hunt down the wolves responsible for the disappearance of three small children in the village of Keelut, Alaska, including her 6-year-old son Bailey. Medora mentions a hot springs to the north of town. Medora's husband Vernon (Alexander Skarsgård) is fighting the war in Iraq. He discovers another American soldier raping a local woman. Vernon wounds the rapist with a knife and hands the weapon to the woman. While tracking the wolves, Core meets an old woman who tells him Medora "knows evil." He finds a pack of wolves eating their young. At the Slone house, he finds Medora missing and discovers Bailey's frozen, strangled body. The villagers claim Medora is possessed by a wolf-demon.