Against the Dark

A virus has swept across the world, turning most of the population into creatures that feed on flesh and drink blood. A team of former soldiers, led by a katana-wielding commander named Tao, hunts these infected down. Elsewhere, a small group of survivors who have not been infected find themselves trapped in an abandoned hospital overrun by the creatures, searching for a way out while the military prepares to bomb the entire area.

Against the Dark is a 2009 action horror film directed by Richard Crudo and written by Mathew Klickstein, with Steven Seagal producing and starring as Commander Tao. The cast also includes Linden Ashby, Jenna Harrison, Danny Midwinter, Emma Catherwood and Stephen Hagan. It was shot in Romania as a co-production between Castel Film and Seagal's Steamroller Productions, with a budget of nine million dollars, which places it in modest territory for the genre it belongs to.

On TMDB the film holds a rating of 3.9 out of 10 from 134 votes, while a critics' rating stands at 5.5 out of 10 from 72 reviews, meaning reviewers responded to it considerably more favourably than the general audience did. The film runs 93 minutes and sits within Crudo's work as a director, coming after his earlier features and drawing on Seagal's established screen presence in a role built around combat.