Dark Country is a 2009 American mystery thriller film directed by and starring Thomas Jane in his directorial debut.

He asks Gina for a cigarette, advises her to leave her husband and becomes increasingly erratic, finally attempting to strangle Dick and almost causing the car to crash.

Some time later, Dick wakes to find himself in the back of his own car, listening to himself and Gina argue, and realizes that he was the mysterious stranger that he fought with and murdered earlier in the evening, screaming at this.

The idea for making Dark Country came after Jane had read the short story by the film's writer Tab Murphy.

[1] The 3D for Dark Country was done using two Silicon Imaging (SI) HD heads capturing at 2K resolution, the cameras were built by Hector Ortega and Stephen Pizzo of Element Technica,[8] and supervised by Geoff Boyle, Max Penner, Tim Thomas and Paradise FX in California.

I indicated wherever the 3D would be and map it through the movie – because I think it can be overstimulating.Thomas Jane has voiced his disappointment over the fact that the studio didn't give the film a theater run, rather releasing it on DVD and not in the 3-D format in which it was intended.

[10] Dark Country was released on DVD on October 6, 2009 in North America by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment and Stage 6 Films.

[11] A graphic novel adaptation of Dark Country by Swiss artist Thomas Ott was released on May 30, 2012, by Raw Studios through comiXology as a digital download.

David Ray Carter of Pop Matters said of the film, "Dark Country throws its whole body into its final sucker punch only to miss by a mile.

"[14] JimmyO of JoBlo.com gave the film a positive review stating, "With Dark Country, his directorial debut, he manages to pump a ton of noir-ish atmosphere into what could have been a by the numbers thriller.

And concluding that "Dark Country's pervasive lack of compelling elements cements its place as a misfire of impressively epic proportions (and this is to say nothing of the laughably nonsensical twist ending, which would seem like a stretch within a David Lynch film).

"[16] Jeff Allard of Shock Till You Drop stated of the films problems "If the same story were told in less time, it might've worked better.

Even with a brief 88 minute running time, Dark Country feels like it's taking excessively long to get to its climax and by the end, what should be an ironic wallop is more of a shoulder shrug."

While ultimately praising the performances of Jane and German, he concluded that "Dark Country is a noble effort that takes too many wrong turns and ends up getting lost.