Straight into Darkness
Straight into Darkness is a 2004 American horror war film directed by Jeff Burr and starring Ryan Francis and Scott MacDonald. It was produced by Mark Hanna and Chuck Williams.  The film is about a newly appointed MI6 agent, David Harrig, who investigates the attempted assassination of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. At the start of the film, he finds himself surrounded by powerful forces from the occult underworld, who wish to exploit his abilities for their own purposes. Despite their efforts, however, David still seeks to unravel a mystery that began in the early seventies, when a young scientist by the name of Frank Poole was found dead in the town of Demb-Grenville.

Cast
Ryan Francis as Losey
Scott MacDonald as Demming
Linda Thorson as Maria 
James LeGros as Soldier
Daniel Roebuck as Soldier
David Warner as Deacon
Liliana Perepelicinic as Anna
Gabriel Spahiu as The Lunatic Priest
Nelu Dinu as Nelu
Mihai Verbintschi as Buchler
Ion Bechet as Sergeant

Release

Home media
The film was released on DVD by MCA Home Video and Bleiberg on June 6 and November 13, 2006 respectively. In 2010, it was released twice by Screen Media as both a single-feature, and multi-feature movie pack. It was released for the first time on Blu-ray by Willette Acquisition Corp. on December 8, 2015.

Reception

Scott Weinberg from eFilmCritic gave the film 4/4 stars, writing, "Jeff Burr's Straight Into Darkness starts out like a straight war flick, almost turns into a horror movie, slowly becomes a moving piece of drama, and spits you out on the other side both impressed with the end product...and more than a little shaken." Robert Koehler of Variety wrote, "Jeff Burr’s neo-gothic WWII drama Straight Into Darkness ends up resisting categorization. There’s pleasure to be had in watching a period war pic made with a personal touch and with a self-conscious pedigree, but this diminishes as Burr excessively lays on themes and action." Ian Jane from DVD Talk gave the film 3/5 stars, writing, "Straight Into Darkness is an interesting and at times almost surreal war film that does a good job of mixing horror movie elements with some serious drama. Unfortunately it gets a little buried under its own message but that doesn't mean it isn't worthwhile."
Jon Condit from Dread Central awarded the film a score of 2.5 out of 5, calling it "fundamentally flawed", but commended the film's visuals.