Terrible things are said to have happened here; the tragic suicide of a young woman. Since then, strange stories have attached themselves to the property in the middle of New York. Of all places, the new tenant is supposed to live and work here as a temporary housekeeper. No problem as far as it goes, if it weren't for the locked door on the upper floor and the owner's urgent warning never to enter the room behind it. Beneath the surface, horror slumbers, waiting to be unleashed!
Mysterious, enigmatic or uneasy. The attributes with which one tries to get hold of DARLING are manifold. They all hit the core and yet they fail miserably. The logical consequence is comparisons. Once again Mickey Keating creates an idiosyncratic homage. Shot in beautiful black and white and told in hypnotic images, Keating oscillates between Hitchcock and Polanski and yet manages to be extremely explicit and thus modern without being explicit.
