The Darkest Hour (2011)

Directed by: Chris Gorak

Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film!

Synopsis: A group of young people are caught in an alien invasion in Moscow and must fight to survive the invisible electrical beasts stalking them.

Cat Burglar (Scene Stealer): The group follow a light in an apartment window and find a young woman named Vika (Veronika Vernadskaya) and an older man named Sergei (Dato Bakhtadze). Sergei is an electrical engineer and has built a Faraday cage within his apartment to keep the creatures from seeing them. Vika introduces them to DJ Lance Rock, a ginger tabby cat who is wearing a little Faraday suit of his own.

The Darkest Hour - ginger tabby cat DJ Lance Rock sitting wearing wire suit
The Darkest Hour - ginger tabby cat DJ Lance Rock sitting wearing wire suit being held by Sergei Dato Bakhtadze with Vika Veronika Vernadskaya
The Darkest Hour - ginger tabby cat DJ Lance Rock sitting wearing wire suit being held by Sergei Dato Bakhtadze

It’s clear that Sergei is strongly attached to DJ Lance Rock, as he sings to the cat and has a photo of him.

The Darkest Hour - photo of ginger tabby cat DJ Lance Rock in background
The Darkest Hour - ginger tabby cat DJ Lance Rock sitting wearing wire suit being held by Sergei Dato Bakhtadze with others
The Darkest Hour - ginger tabby cat DJ Lance Rock sitting wearing wire suit being held by Sergei Dato Bakhtadze
The Darkest Hour - ginger tabby cat DJ Lance Rock sitting wearing wire suit being held by Sergei Dato Bakhtadze
The Darkest Hour - ginger tabby cat DJ Lance Rock sitting wearing wire suit being sung to by Sergei Dato Bakhtadze

Sergei explains to the newcomers how he has invented a microwave gun which may slow down or even disable the creatures. When one of the creatures chases the girls back to the apartment and gets inside, Sergei fires the gun at the creature. DJ Lance Rocks tears out the front door (with the standard cat screech sound effect) never to be seen again.

The Darkest Hour - ginger tabby cat DJ Lance Rock sitting wearing wire suit running out of door

Concept art shows a better view of what the cat’s personal Faraday cage is supposed to look.

The Darkest Hour - concept art of ginger tabby cat DJ Lance Rock wearing wire suit Faraday cage
The Darkest Hour - ginger tabby cat DJ Lance Rock sitting wearing wire suit

Final Mewsings: DJ Lance Rock is still trying to figure out how to get out of that outfit.

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