WARNING! Spoilers for Into the Dark: The Current Occupant ahead.
Into the Dark delivers a new seasonal entry of anthology horror every month—July’s installment, The Current Occupant, features one of the most twisted and deceptive stories that they’ve ever done with an ending that leaves the audience with numerous questions about what is reality and what is fantasy.
Into the Dark: The Current Occupant shines a disturbing light on Independence Day and the dangerous levels of patriotism that exist in individuals. The Current Occupant stars Barry Watson as Henry Cameron, a man who’s been admitted to a mental asylum with no memory of who he is. Henry’s paranoia only increases when he’s fed the idea that he might actually be the President of the United States.
Into the Dark: The Current Occupant riffs on classic films like A Clockwork Orange and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest to deliver a surprising horror story that strives to defy expectations. The Current Occupant is an eerily relevant Into the Dark entry and, although the plot is enough to make viewers sweat, the installment is full of twists and turns which leaves the truth ambiguous until the credits roll.
What Is The Asylum’s New Experimental Trial?
Henry Cameron’s initial admission into the hospital and asylum shows the character desperate for answers about his past and how he got there. Henry finds himself lost in a monotonous routine with the idea of recovery seeming impossible. Henry catches a break when Dr. Larsen (Sonita Henry) offers him an experimental new treatment, which will lead him to a faster recovery. Henry accepts out of desperation, but finds his mind at risk. Dr. Larsen’s new trial combines notable elements of of A Clockwork Orange’s Ludovico Technique with a standard Rorschach test.
During the trial, Henry is bombarded with intensive questions and patriotic visuals as Dr. Larsen's experiment attempts to determine what values are truly important to him. In addition to the extensive brainwashing that the trial does, Henry also seems to have several verbal triggers that have been implanted in him in efforts to reprogram his brain to an even deeper degree than he realizes.
What Is The Political Conspiracy’s Endgame?
Henry faces a major crossroads when a fellow patient, Helen (Lilli Birdsell), informs him that they’re both victims of an elaborate conspiracy. Helen speaks about the “Omega 6 Directive”, a special program that’s designed to replace the President. After Henry’s accident, the whole world thinks that the President is in a vegetative state after an assassination attempt, when in fact he’s being hidden underground by the government. Omega 6 Directive’s goal is for the Vice President to gain control of the country and use the brainwashed Henry as a puppet that can gain the VP sympathy during re-election.
Helen also tells Henry that she’s been sidelined because she’s his Secretary of State and that the “hospital” they’re in is actually a bunker that’s underneath the White House. Lost in a sea of lies, Henry begins to rely on Helen, not just for details about the conspiracy, but also for information on how to properly play the game and escape from this prison. Of course, all of this is only true if there’s actually a conspiracy going on and it isn’t just some deep delusion.
The Significance Of The White Rose
Henry is plagued by a number of confusing visuals during his brainwashing sessions. These images are chaotic for the most part, but one recurring motif is the image of a white rose. Henry tries to hang onto this image for stability, but it turns out to serve a major importance to his past life. The white rose represents Henry’s dead wife, Eliza (Kate Cobb), and the guilt that he feels over the loss of her. The rose is a glimpse of the truth, but Henry’s mind uses it as tool of repression to protect his sanity from the harshness of reality. Henry even occasionally recites a poem that references the white rose, which at first appears to be part of his brainwashing, but is instead his brain’s way of holding onto his wife.
Is Everybody Actually Real?
The deeper that Into the Dark: The Current Occupant goes on, the more it plays with the idea that several of the people who Henry interacts with are actually just fabrications of his mind. The Current Occupant plays around with this idea, but it’s ultimately the allies that Henry acquires on his mission that are imaginary. Helen and Eliza are the two support systems that Henry has to lean on. However, after he goes through more experiments he’s confronted with the grim truth that neither of them exists. Helen represents the “lost nation” that needs Henry to return to power and Eliza is a way for Henry to live in the past and still be with his lost wife.
Is Henry Really The President?
The major mystery that Into the Dark: The Current Occupant toys the audience with is whether Henry is crazy, or if he’s actually the President. Into the Dark goes back and forth on this topic and right until the final moments it looks like there is in fact a conspiracy in place. However, the much more depressing truth is that Henry is just insane. He’s not the President, but is instead someone who ran unsuccessfully several times to be the Commander in Chief. Henry and his wife were both at the re-election rally and when the assassin missed the President, he hit Henry and killed Eliza. The entire conspiracy scenario that Henry creates is because his brain is unable to handle the truth. He’s a threat, not a victim.
What The Ending Of Into The Dark: The Current Occupant Really Means
Into the Dark: The Current Occupant speaks to how powerful the human brain is in terms of hiding in a delusion and retreating from the truth. Fears over a corrupt nation and elaborate conspiracies are gaining more traction in current times, but The Current Occupant cleverly plays into those fears as misdirection. Henry doesn’t trust Dr. Larsen and her staff, but they do actually want to help him and “cure” him of this guilt. Unfortunately, the final scenario in the installment shows Henry reaches the point of no return. He becomes lost in his fantasy, preferring the safe lies that it provides than the difficult truth that awaits him in the real world.
Henry will continue to go on this destructive cycle and the fact that he has dialogue throughout the installment about how this feels familiar implies that he’s already gone through this charade several times before. Henry consistently reaches the wrong conclusion and needs to go through the treatment again for a hopeful ending, which makes this Into the Dark movie one with both the bleakest ending and, strangely, one of the most optimistic.
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