Edges of Darkness is a 2008 American independent horror anthology film directed by Jason Horton and Blaine Cade. The film consists of three interconnected stories set during a zombie apocalypse.
Plot Edges of Darkness follows three groups of survivors sheltering in an apartment complex during a zombie apocalypse. With their food supply dwindling, a vampire couple kidnaps a young girl, intending to feed on her slowly. Dean, an obsessive horror writer, isolates himself with his neglected wife, Dana, and installs a mysterious new processor that allows his computer to run without electricity, only to discover that it draws its power from living beings. Heather, a survivalist, rescues a young mother and her son from zombies and brings them back to the apartment complex, where she learns that the pair are being pursued by a group of renegade priests who intend to destroy the boy.
Cast Alonzo F. Jones as Stan Shamika Ann Franklin as Stellie Annemarie Pazmino as Natalie Lee Perkins as Paul Michelle Rose as Heather Xavier Jones as Marcus Jay Costelo as Dean Alisha Gaddis as Dana Robert Kitchen as Priest Wayne Baldwin as Morris Damon Burks as Daemon
Production Principal photography had wrapped by February 2007. A test screening was held in June 2007, while work continued on the score and the final visual-effects shots.
Post-production was prolonged by difficulties finding a composer. Horton said that it took five attempts to find a suitable composer and that the scoring process delayed completion by more than six months. The film was completed in February 2008.
Release Edges of Darkness received its UK television premiere in early 2009.
Anchor Bay Entertainment released the film on DVD in the United States on September 22, 2009.
Reception Mike Phalin of Dread Central rated the film three out of five stars. He criticized the computer-centered segment as tonally inconsistent with the rest of the anthology, but praised the vampire and Antichrist storylines and considered the film unusually inventive for a low-budget zombie production.
Peter Dendle, writing in The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia: 2000–2010, described the film's stories as thin and largely disconnected, although he considered the film an improvement over Rise of the Undead.
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