The Tall Man

2012 • 105 minutes

About this movie

Darkness has descended over the northwestern town of Cold Rock. One by one, its children are disappearing. They leave behind neither clues nor credible witnesses, but instead a legend, a story cloaked in shadows passed from neighbor to neighbor ... And with it, a building sense of terror which threatens to devour what's left of the community itself. Superstitious locals talk of "The Tall Man," a mysterious figure who takes the children away, never to be seen again. But Julia Denning (Jessica Biel) has no time for legends or superstitions. A nurse doing her best for the emotionally distraught and economically devastated former mining town, she tries instead to preserve a semblance of normality both at work and at home. Until terror enters her own front door. Waking up in the middle of the night, she races to her child's bedroom, only to discover an empty bed -- and a hulking specter in the downstairs doorway who steals off into the darkness with her boy (Jakob Davies). As Julia follows in pursuit, she will stop at nothing and will risk everything to save him. Joined by determined investigator, Lt. Dodd (Stephen McHattie) and the child's local sheriff (William B. Davis), the chase is on and with it the quest for answers: Who is "The Tall Man"? What has become of the children? Soon, the town of Cold Rock will have the answers it so desperately seeks, answers that will shake the community to its core. A suspense-filled thriller like no other, THE TALL MAN mines a corrosive world of fear and terror before ultimately revealing its own unimaginable truth.

Ratings and reviews

Its a good flick, makes you think about what's real, what's right, and what's worth losing your life over. A mix of Falling Down meets Gone Baby Gone with a bit of Flowers in the Attic.

"The Tall Man", at the beginning it showed signs of missing children and desperate and depressed families in the small town of Cold Rock. A mother named Julia caring for her son David who has gone missing by a tall figure recently. Then i just got confused when the twist broke out, to me it felt as if someone has slapped me across the face. But as it went on i started to understand what was happening. I had pity for Julia and what she had to pay for just for trying to help the children of Cold Rock to finding a better home and a much more safer environment around them. But at the same time the families of the missing children have to worry where their children are and are their children safe? When the movie ended i keep having this question replaying and replaying in my head. Is this what Julia and the others are doing is right? Or is it wrong? But my answer is I don't know. I know for a fact that its great that they are trying to find better homes for the children. But i also know for a fact that the families of the missing children are worried sick. Yeah the missing children's families don't have money. But they love them. So I think both is right in their owns ways.My answer

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