{"id":41010,"date":"2026-01-22T09:11:53","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T14:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=41010"},"modified":"2026-01-22T09:11:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T14:11:57","slug":"hold-the-dark-2018-directed-by-jeremy-saulnier-starring-jeffrey-wright-alexander-skarsgard-and-riley-keough-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=41010","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Hold the Dark&#8221; (2018) directed by Jeremy Saulnier, starring Jeffrey Wright, Alexander Skarsg\u00e5rd and Riley Keough \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z012226zview_holdthedark.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"741\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Hold the Dark <\/strong><\/em>(2018)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:<strong> Jeremy Saulnier<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Macon Blair, <\/strong>based on <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/49AZVgp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HOLD THE DARK<\/a> by<strong>William Giraldi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Jeffrey Wright, Alexander Skarsg\u00e5rd, James Badge Dale, Riley Keough, Julian Black Antelope, Eric Keenleyside and Tantoo Cardinal.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: None.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russell Core arrives at the small, remote village of Keelut, Alaska.\u00a0 Core came at the request of Medora Slone.\u00a0 Three children from the village (including Medora&#8217;s young son) are missing. A wolf pack is blamed.\u00a0 Although there is no hope the children are alive, Medora wants Core to track and kill the pack.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Core agrees.\u00a0 What he and others will soon learn, something much more sinister than a wolf pack is responsible.<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">My main interest in this film was actor Jeffrey Wright (who is always excellent) and director Jeremy Saulnier (I loved his work on <em>Rebel Ridge<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><strong>Hold the Dark <\/strong><\/em>(2018) rates 3 of 5 stars.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z012226zview_holdthedark2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"376\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hold the Dark (2018) Director: Jeremy Saulnier Screenplay: Macon Blair, based on HOLD THE DARK byWilliam Giraldi Stars: Jeffrey Wright,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41011,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41010\/revisions\/41011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}