Beach, cliffs, pine forests, and stone houses. Inside the room, Virginia was awakened by a nightmare in which we could see her cousin Annabelle's face pale and blood stains on her lips. Before going insane, there is always a moment of normalcy, but in his movies, Martin DeSalvo refuses to expose us to it: there is not a single shot that fails to convey the imminent horror, whether in the recurring premonitory dreams of Virginia or in the development of the main plot surrounding the seemingly spreading rabies outbreak in the region. This terror slowly took shape and spread to houses and their surroundings in Virginia, where decaying animal carcasses began to appear. The Dark of the Day "is both fashionable and unsettling, visualizing the dreams of any refined film enthusiast through a story directly inspired by HP Lovecraft and Algernon Blackwood, while echoing the same spirit of dedication as Lucio Fulci from Beyond and Andrei Tarkovsky from Mirror