Blumhouse’s Into the Dark Season 2 Episode 1 “Uncanny Annie” – Twilight Zone meets ‘Jumanji’ meets ‘Resident Evil’ (HF Review)

Oct 4
The HorrorFatale

Director: Paul Davis
Cast: Georgie Flores as Eve, Adelaide Kane as Wendy, Paige McGhee as Grace, Jacques Colimon as Craig, Dylan Arnold as Michael, Evan Bittencourt as Peter

Season two of Blumhouse’s Into the Dark starts its 12-episode season with our beloved genres favorite holiday – Halloween. Let me start by saying anytime anyone references ‘Candyman’ in any form on camera I’m already sold. And, another thing why oh why would anyone pick that creepy looking game to play in the first place?

On Halloween night a group of college students get trapped in a mysterious board game that brings their darkest secrets and fears to life, where they must play to escape…and win to survive.


As per the description we meet a bunch of young people that decide to play the worst game possible on Halloween night while kicking back a few beers. Well, of course let the fuckery begin. They choose Uncanny Annie, which is best described as truth or dare in the freakin’ Twilight Zone. The episode in fact pulls from TZ a great deal, also Jumanji who they vocally shout out in the episode. There’s even a little of Resident Evil mixed into the episode. Think Claire or K-Mart. Each of characters are uncharacteristically likable and sympathetic in their own ways. Annie is also a villain to be reckoned with, which is partly because she looks as if she escaped from The Brady Bunch in hell. The special effects were actually decent for what I imagine to be a smaller budget. The mix of the practical and the CGI works well.

Into The Dark — “Uncanny Annie” – On Halloween night a group of college students get trapped in a mysterious board game that brings their darkest secrets and fears to life, where they must play to escape…and win to survive. Grace (Paige McGhee), Wendy (Adelaide Kane), and Eve (Georgie Flores), shown. (Photo by: Patrick Wymore/Hulu)

Uncanny Annie, the episode, is hard to classify in terms of which type of horror it is. There is a possession, a ghost story and even a few supernatural elements. The episode has a sufficient number of kills making it a slasher as well. Uncanny Annie makes this episode a true horror entry into the series, by ticking all the genre boxes. It’s not a perfect episode of course, because there are number of questions and dumb plot devices. Also, why is the damn game evil? What’s its origin? 🤔 Dare I say it, I liked this episode the most of all the previous ones. Uncanny has finally unseated The Body (season 1, episode 1).
Into The Dark — “Uncanny Annie” – On Halloween night a group of college students get trapped in a mysterious board game that brings their darkest secrets and fears to life, where they must play to escape…and win to survive. Annie (Karlisha Hurley), shown. (Photo by: Patrick Wymore/Hulu)

Uncanny Annie is definitely a great start to season two.

In partnership with Blumhouse Television, Into The Dark is a horror event series from prolific, award-winning producer, Jason Blum’s independent TV studio. The series includes 12 super-sized episodes, with a new installment released each month inspired by a holiday and will feature Blumhouse’s signature genre/thriller spin on the story.

Blumhouse’s Into the Dark streams today October 4, only on Hulu.