Dark Places, the thriller adapted from Gillian Flynn's novel, joins the Prime Video catalog on September 1, 2026. Written and directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner, the 2015 film casts Charlize Theron as a survivor forced to revisit the murder of her family.
In 1985, eight-year-old Libby Day watches as her mother and two sisters are murdered on their Kansas farm. Traumatized, the girl accuses her brother Ben, then a teen. Her testimony seals his fate, and he is sentenced to life in prison.
Nearly three decades on, Libby still lives with the fallout of the tragedy. Having exhausted the donations poured in by a public once shaken by her story, she agrees to meet the Kill Club, a true‑crime enthusiast group convinced of Ben’s innocence. Its most tenacious member, Lyle Wirth, played by Nicholas Hoult, urges her to reopen the case in exchange for money.
Libby is forced to test her memories against the accounts of people close to her family at the time of the murders. As inconsistencies emerge, she begins to question what she thought she saw that night—and the role her own testimony may have played in her brother’s conviction.
The narrative toggles between Libby's adult investigation and the days leading up to the massacre. Corey Stoll portrays Ben Day in the present, while Tye Sheridan plays his teenage counterpart. Christina Hendricks portrays Patty, their mother, grappling with the family farm's financial woes.
Chloë Grace Moretz stars as Diondra, Ben's girlfriend in 1985. The cast also features Sterling Jerins, who plays young Libby, along with Drea de Matteo, Andrea Roth and Sean Bridgers.
Dark Places brings to the screen the novel Les Lieux sombres by Gillian Flynn, who also wrote Gone Girl. Unlike the adaptation by David Fincher, for which Flynn herself wrote the screenplay, Gilles Paquet-Brenner here handles both the adaptation and the direction. The film preserves the book’s past-and-present structure to gradually reshape how the crime is understood.
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