And Soon the Darkness is a 2010 thriller film directed by Marcos Efron, starring Karl Urban

Karl Urban

Karl-Heinz Urban is a New Zealand actor.He is known for playing Éomer in the second and third installments of Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy in the 2009 film Star Trek and Julius Caesar on Xena: Warrior Princess...

, Amber Heard

Amber Heard

Amber Laura Heard is an American actress and model. She played the lead and title character in All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, which debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2006. Heard's first starring role came in 2007 on the CW television show Hidden Palms...

, and Odette Yustman

Odette Yustman

Odette Juliette Annable , better known by her birth name Odette Yustman, is an American actress.-Early life:...

.

Plot

Stephanie and Ellie, two young American girls, decide to stay in a small hotel on their last night in Argentina. After a drunken night at the local bar, where they encounter some of the local men, the two miss the bus that was supposed to take them to their destination. Rather than wait for another bus, they begin their trip and head down to the nearby river. The trip takes a turn for the worse when the two are separated and Ellie is kidnapped. While Stephanie desperately searches for her friend, she is joined by Michael, an American who claims to be looking for someone who disappeared months ago. The duo are assisted by the town's only police officer who acts oddly suspicious. Stephanie finds the hide-out where the kidnapper has taken Ellie and manages to rescue her, but Ellie is later killed by the man who kidnapped her. Later, it is revealed that the lone police officer was behind all the missing girls. The policeman offers to make a trade for Michael's girlfriend, Camila, if he hands over Stephanie. The trade does not materialize and Michael gets shot. Stephanie tries to escape but gets kidnapped by the policeman and this time rescues herself by jumping off a boat and eventually killing the policeman at the Paraguayan border.

Cast

• Amber Heard
  Amber Heard
  Amber Laura Heard is an American actress and model. She played the lead and title character in All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, which debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2006. Heard's first starring role came in 2007 on the CW television show Hidden Palms...
  
   as Stephanie
• Karl Urban
  Karl Urban
  Karl-Heinz Urban is a New Zealand actor.He is known for playing Éomer in the second and third installments of Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy in the 2009 film Star Trek and Julius Caesar on Xena: Warrior Princess...
  
   as Michael
• Odette Yustman
  Odette Yustman
  Odette Juliette Annable , better known by her birth name Odette Yustman, is an American actress.-Early life:...
  
   as Ellie
• Gia Mantegna as Camila
• Adriana Barraza
  Adriana Barraza
  Adriana Barraza is a Mexican film and television actress and director. She has also been nominated for a Golden Globe, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, a Broadcast Film Critics Association and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She is also a veteran actress of Televisa telenovelas...
  
   as Rosamaria
• Michel Noher as Chucho
• César Vianco as Calvo
• Maria Salome Cari as Cleaning Woman
• Matias Paz Conde as Skinny Guy
• Andrea Verdun as Waitress
• Luis Sabatini as Luca
• Nicolas Dolensky as Cute Guy
• Hugo Miranda as Man
• Walter Pena as Mechanic
• Javier Luna as Bar Owner
• Esteban Pastrana as Barman
• Daniel Figuereido as Pedro
• Jorge Booth as Hernán

Production

It is a remake of the 1970 British film of the same name

And Soon the Darkness

And Soon the Darkness is a 1970 British thriller film. Starring Pamela Franklin, Michele Dotrice and Sandor Elès, it tells the story of two young English women on a cycling holiday in France, who run into difficulties.-Plot:...

 and was shot in March 2009 in Argentina. The screenplay was written by Jennifer Derwingson and Marcos Efron.

Release

The film was released on February 18, 2010 as part of the European film market in Germany and is scheduled for a theatrical release on February 11, 2011 over Optimum Releasing in the United Kingdom. On May 14, 2010, Anchor Bay

Anchor Bay Entertainment

Anchor Bay Entertainment is a U.S. based home entertainment and production company and is a division of Starz Media, which is a unit of Starz, LLC. It was previously owned by IDT Entertainment until 2006 when IDT was purchased by Starz Media. Anchor Bay markets and sells feature films, series,...

acquired the rights for US distribution of the film. The film was released for limited theatrical run on December 17, 2010, and it has been released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on December 28, 2010.