It Gets Darker
2022 · 21m · Lebanon
Directed by Firas Abou Fakher, Daniel Habib
Genres: dark comedy, horror, thriller
Tones: dark, darkly comic, tense
Following a traumatic incident, Lara joins her childhood best friend for a relaxing weekend at an isolated resort, only to realize she has been lured into a trap meant to silence her, and must fight her way through the night to survive.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A trap-door thriller that weaponizes the 'relaxing weekend' trope into something genuinely nasty—the dark comedy lands because it refuses to wink, treating betrayal and survival with the same deadpan intensity. Most scouts would see the premise and move on; that's exactly why this one matters.
The tonal oscillation between horror and dark comedy reads as formally uncertain rather than deliberately kaleidoscopic, and while the siege structure has echoes of familiar thriller lineage, the film doesn't quite commit to the rigorous execution that would justify the genre-blending ambition.
The breakthrough here is how the script withholds the magnitude of Lara's trauma until the final act—that delayed revelation recontextualizes every earlier moment of hesitation, and it's a structural choice made on almost no budget that transforms what could've been a revenge procedural into something psychologically complex.