1.   Director Gary Fleder places much of his dark tale in the daylight, as if to say that evil hides in the sun, too.

2.   Director-writer David Cronenberg delivers a dark tale filled with bizarre imagery and sexuality.

3.   I could have done with less graphic sex descriptions, but they do work in the context of this very dark tale.

4.   It is an irresistible dark tale of murder, incest and class struggle, an event so bizarre that a novelist might hesitate to invent it.

5.   Nowadays the world is at peace, so why reinvent this dark tale of gloom and doom?

6.   The movie is a dark tale about the lives of the members of a repertory troupe in Liverpool.

7.   Uncertain how Americans will react to the dark tale now, Paxton took encouragement from Fred Durst, the lead singer of Limp Bizkit, who attended a screening.

8.   From homes huddled round the village church, another dark tale of child sex has crept out to shock Belgium.

9.   The movie stars Naomi Watts and Laura Elena Harring in a dark tale of obsession, danger and amnesia in Hollywood.