Coming Home in the Dark. Poster of the 2021 movie and cover of the 1995 book, Coming Home in The Dark
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Coming Home in The Dark
Owen Marshall, 1995
movie vs book
James Ashcroft, 2021

A family’s idyllic outing descends into terror when high school teacher Alan Hoaganraad, his wife Jill and stepsons Maika and Jordon go exploring an isolated coastline. But an unexpected meeting with a pair of murderous drifters thrusts the family into a nightmare road trip where they find themselves captured by the enigmatic psychopath Mandrake and his hulking man-child accomplice Tubs.