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Dark City

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A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic powers who seek the souls of humans. From TMDB

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  • Damion Schubert @zenofdesign.comBluesky · Dec 26, 2025

    Tonight we’re watching one of the greatest sci fi movies ever made: Dark City, a brilliant film that had the unfortunate luck to be released right in The Matrix’ shadow.

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  • SpryOldLorax @spryoldlorax.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 30, 2026

    Today's #Movie review is "Dark City" This moody, atmospheric sci-fi mystery is a deeply under-appreciated movie that sorta flopped at the box office before developing a cult following. Great cast, a constant mess-with-your-mind plot, and a satisfying conclusion. If you haven't seen it, try it.

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  • The Other Happy Place @theotherhappyplace.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 18, 2024

    Yesss watching Dark City. I love this movie, I wish more people knew it

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  • Monica At The Movies @monicasmovies.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 31, 2026

    Dark City (1998) 🎬🖤 Directed by Alex Proyas

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  • BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 9, 2026

    Watched Dark City, 10/10, superb freak of a film

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  • Des Walsh @deswalsh.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 14, 2026

    Tonight I’m watching the movie Dark City for the very first time and you can have a drinking game pointing out parallels with the matrix that’s probably not fare at all on a creative level but you will also be shit faced fast.

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  • Hampus Flink 🐷💢 @hampus.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 12, 2024

    Dark City (1998) is on Tubi right now and it's fucking great, I can't believe I hadn't seen this film before. I normally fall asleep next to my dog while trying to watch movies at night but I watched this one all the way through without even yawning, strongly recommended

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  • 16mm Inferno @16mminferno.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 27, 2026

    Alex Proyas’s visually striking "Dark City" hit US theatres on FEB 27, 1998, 28 years ago today! It also includes standout performances by Rufus Sewell, Jennifer Connelly, Kiefer Sutherland, and William Hurt, just to name a few. The film earned a devoted cult over the years! #DarkCity #16mmInferno

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  • “E.C. Horror” Myers @ecmyers.comBluesky · Jun 25, 2026

    Name a movie that flopped at the box office but is actually great #FilmSky Dark City (1998)

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  • Daddio @kidcreole3.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 29, 2026

    DARK CITY (1998) * Watch 4 My first watch of the Director's Cut. A bit longer. Eliminates the spoiler-ish opening voiceover Always enjoyed this film Sci-fi blended with the heart of noir and Hopper's Nighthawks vibes Ebert loved it. I saw it Ebertfest. Great experience

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  • pillsy @ducksfortheduckgod.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 28, 2025

    DARK CITY has a strong claim to being the most underrated movie of the ‘90s, and Sutherland is a huge piece of it

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  • Art Of Coop @artofcoop.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 31, 2023

    Watching DARK CITY again and boy this is a good-looking movie

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  • Raysident Evil @sireviscerate.myatproto.socialBluesky · Apr 14, 2026

    You know what? Dark City wasn't a bad movie at all. Hard sci-fi was a hard sell in the 90s. It was stylish, weird, and a lot of fun.

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  • LittleKuriboh @littlekuriboh.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 8, 2026

    What’s your favorite movie from every decade of your life 80s: Stop Making Sense 90s: Dark City 00s: American Psycho 10s: Shrek Retold 20s: The People’s Joker

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  • The Other Happy Place @theotherhappyplace.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 1, 2026

    Quick list of Tubi Recommendations Midnight Meat Train Re-Animator The Babadook Savageland The Void Everly Invasion of the Body Snatchers Green Room Hush Ex Machina The Dead Zone (movie) Nightbreed Dark City

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  • Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer @princejvstin.comBluesky · Jul 3, 2024

    The director's cut of Dark City, which removes the opening voiceover by Kiefer Sutherland (among other opening edits, particularly) is a strong improvement. Also, I think, the director's cut of Kingdom of Heaven improves the movie immensely. But as John notes, its not frequently so.

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  • mtsw @mtsw.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 11, 2025

    There's a handful of movies like this but one thing I love about DARK CITY is that it's premise lets the audience mentally explain away a lot of the kinda shaky elements of the movie as being intentional

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  • Film Noir Foundation @noirfoundation.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 15, 2025

    FNF prez @eddiemuller.bsky.social returns to @hollywoodtheatre.org July 11-13 for #noricityportland. This year’s films star the six actresses profiled in Muller’s newly revised and expanded book, "Dark City Dames: The Wicked Women of Film Noir". Tix: bit.ly/4e7E2G0 #noircity

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  • Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.socialBluesky · May 27, 2026

    The '90s were a great time for deeply weird sci fi movies, and Alex Proyas' Dark City might be the weirdest of them all: a brilliant collection of ideas and images from classic science fiction and film noir (just avoid the tacked-on prologue)

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  • Kevin Bows @bowsknows71.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 17, 2025

    Now rewatching the masterfully made 1998 movie “Dark City” directed by Alex Proyas (The Crow, I Robot). Featuring Rufus Sewell, Jennifer Connelly, Kiefer Sutherland, William Hurt and Richard O’Brien. I love this movie so much.

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  • Hallow’s Books, Movies, and TV @hallowshaunt.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 12, 2025

    Any fans of the 1998 film, Dark City?

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  • JPSea ..✳️🈶 @jpsea83.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 19, 2025

    Watching Dark City for the first time tonight..the Matrix had me for a long time but you live & learn :) Bittersweet but an amazing film so far… #filmsky 🌀⭐️🦩🩵

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  • Chris Longhurst @potatocubed.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 25, 2026

    Dark City is a great movie. More people should watch it.

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  • Dieter Bohn @backlon.comBluesky · Nov 25, 2024

    Dark City is a Thanksgiving movie.

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  • Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.comBluesky · Sep 3, 2024

    The director's cut of Dark City is absurdly good. My clearest memory of Dark City as a whole is how the theatrical cut ruins the film right from the beginning, worse than Identity even. But the DC is precisely my shit, a story where you spend the first half figuring out what story you're even in.

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  • Don't be sClaired @isolinearchip.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 28, 2024

    Ebert's commentary track for DARK CITY where he said he watched the movie frame-by-frame gave him a lifetime pass for me for otherwise bewildering ratings

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  • Jeremy Whitley @jeremywhitley.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 12, 2025

    I watched a wild one I'd never seen before tonight. Quite a film, Dark City.

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  • Buzz Foster @buzzfoster.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 11, 2025

    Going to see Dark City tonight at the local art house cinema.

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  • Tommy Krasker @tommykrasker.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 23, 2026

    #TheNoirCollective is back next Wed, Apr 29, when we’ll be making that (postponed) trip to the DARK CITY. I’m hosting. 😊 The film made Charlton Heston a star, and look at the rest of the cast. ⬇️ Everyone’s in this. If you’re of a certain age, *you* might be in it. Link: archive.org/details/dark...

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  • Chella Ramanan 🇬🇩 @chellaramanan.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 18, 2025

    Tonight's movie is... Dark City. Somehow I have never seen this movie. I know!! Am I even Gen X!? Rufus Sewell 👀 Also Gothic AF aesthetic from what I see.

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  • Film Noir UK @filmnoiruk.bsky.socialBluesky · May 9, 2025

    "You can only imagine the amount of time and effort that was set aside to make this book look so good." Our review of @eddiemuller.bsky.social's new edition of Dark City Dames: The Women Who Defined #FilmNoir is here. Plus you have a chance to win a copy: www.southwestsilents.com/post/dark-ci...

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  • Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.cityBluesky · Oct 15, 2023

    have decided to watch eXistenZ tonight because I have a theory that it, The Matrix, and Dark City were all different takes on the same movie released at about the same time

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  • Matthew Humphreys @americanninjax.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 18, 2023

    The Aliens in the film Dark City provided free food and housing to an entire city population. Got everyone to go to sleep easily at a reasonable hour and sometimes you'd wake up not remembering your problems and being rich. Why were they the bad guys again?

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  • Aric Toler @aric.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 17, 2025

    Just watched Dark City for the first time, and realized that Atlus lifted the idea of the Dark Hour and Tartarus 1:1 from this movie

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  • Bone Tower @bentobitt.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 31, 2025

    My Batman fantasy film would be very over the top and gothic like Dark City or City of Lost Children, and would 100% feature a found footage section where some goons get hunted.

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  • caffeine anxiety ego death @mxdshipwreck.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 12, 2024

    One more DARK CITY post, this time to heap praise upon the trailer, which made the movie seem too good to be true -- and then it wasn't. When I first saw this I thought I was going to lose my mind. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt9H...

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  • optiMSTie @optimstie.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 12, 2026

    Fave film for each year of the 1990s 1990: Treasure Island 1991: Delicatessen 1992: Hard Boiled 1993: Wilder Napalm 1994: Drunken Master II aka The Legend of Drunken Master 1995: Heat 1996 & OBVIOUS best in show: Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie 1997: Cure 1998: Dark City 1999: Bowfinger 🎥

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  • Revy but spoopy @catgirlfingies.questBluesky · Jul 7, 2025

    Watching Dark City in 4K Because my sister got the new collector edition 🙀

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  • Mike Chen @mikechenwriter.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 27, 2025

    I just rewatched Dark City, which I remembered nothing about other than it was very cool and very good. What strikes me is how well lit the film is w/ a depth to the color contrast. Modern stuff is so muted and I dunno if that's digital or just an aesthetic. I just binged Silo and it's so muddy.

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  • Cinematic Second Chances @cinemaseconds.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 7, 2025

    In Dark City (1998), Dir. Alex Proyas, Film Noir tropes are recreated in a dystopian world where nothing is as it seems. Dark and gloomy, it sets a mood and runs with it. Excellent acting and production design elevate this film, predating The Matrix—it was first to the rodeo. Not to be overlooked. 🎞️

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  • Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 23, 2026

    I just read Eddie Muller's classic Dark City, an introduction to film noir; it was a huge deal when it first came out, helped establish noir's critical bona fides, and also ended up helping to save some films thought lost. I found it both helpful and intermittently irritating. 1

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  • DVD Menus @dvdmenus.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 23, 2024

    Dark City (Film: 1998, DVD: 2001)

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  • Scaroline @scarolinetv.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 19, 2025

    I watched Dark City for the first time tonight and it's a perfect world building movie. Everything feels so cool and lived in without being too much. 10/10 goddamn

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  • What Cargie Does In The Shadows @cargie.babyBluesky · Jan 3, 2025

    so I'm watching Alex Proyas' "Dark City" (1998) and its like if The Matrix was NOT a trans allegory

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  • Matt Konopka @werematt.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 1, 2025

    Obsessed with the noir meets sci-fi aesthetic of Dark City (Fantastic film, by the way)

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  • Emmeline @shirokumahi.meBluesky · Dec 15, 2025

    A new Block Busters for all $5+ patrons! We watched Dark City, a movie that really reminded us of the joy of going to the movies and watching some mid-tier genre fare back when movies still had the magic to them. Shout out to Kiefer. www.patreon.com/posts/block-...

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  • Aaron Ross Powell @aaronrosspowell.comBluesky · Dec 28, 2024

    Watched "Dark City" for the first time in a long time and I'd forgot how much it's exactly the same movie as "The Matrix," but a year earlier and, I think, actually better.

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  • Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 30, 2026

    Charlton Heston really tempts us to dislike him in DARK CITY (1950). And he succeeds. He also has no chemistry w/ Lizabeth Scott or Dean Jagger (as the cop). But the film still works for me, thx to the vibe Dieterle, Franz Waxman, D.P. Victor Milner + the supporting cast create. #TheNoirCollective

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  • Si Hart @sihart.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 24, 2025

    Time to watch an old favourite movie that I haven't seen for years. The new 4K transfer of Dark City.

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  • Daniel O'Connell @docholiday316.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 11, 2025

    Got my Arrow Video 4K of Dark City in thanks to the fine folks at @diabolikdvd.bsky.social . Love this movie and glad to see it get a swanky boutique release.

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  • Joezilla @joezillaz.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 18, 2025

    #LastFourFriday Superman (2025) Chungking Express (1994) Dark City (1998) Office Space (1999) #LetterboxdFriday #Filmsky

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  • Amanda Lien @alienfirst.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 6, 2025

    I’m watching Dark City, and this movie rocks.

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  • 💫Allison Cassandra Ashtear🏳️‍⚧️🔞 @jayeallisonashtear.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 22, 2024

    I recall first seeing these in the film Dark City, and thought it was some weird fictional fantasy retrotech thing they made up for the film.

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  • V C Morrison @sparkcrusher.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 2, 2026

    Oh, I hear ya. I still have to watch Dark City again one day because I missed the second half of the movie.

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  • Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.comBluesky · Mar 18, 2026

    every week in my game dev discord we discuss a film. this week's film is DARK CITY. watch and discuss

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  • Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 30, 2024

    My favourite black & white film is 'Dark City', which wasn't actually a black and white film for anyone else but it was the first DVD I watched when I got my first DVD player, and I'd done something wrong with the settings or SCART cable or something and I watched it without colour and didn't notice

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  • Tom Wambsgans’ Second Wife, PhD @drwambsgans.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 8, 2026

    Tonight’s movie is Dark City.

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  • 💜⛓️Madame Malice⛓️💜 @malice.monsterBluesky · Jun 12, 2026

    Dark City is such a fucking good movie. These sets are so beautiful

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  • optiMSTie @optimstie.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 9, 2026

    I'm duty-bound to say that Roger Ebert's commentary track for Dark City is A-MA-ZING. As is the actual movie.

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  • Sammi Lou Thorne @sammi2009.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 14, 2026

    Missed out having Inside on this list, but my #lastfourwatched #letterboxdfriday (another physical media day): Repo! The Genetic Opera Dark City Terrifier Automaton Transfusion

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