Hold the Dark is a 2018 American action thriller film directed by Jeremy Saulnier from a screenplay by Macon Blair.

The film stars Jeffrey Wright, Alexander Skarsgård, James Badge Dale, Riley Keough, Tantoo Cardinal, and Julian Black Antelope.

In December 2004, Medora Slone (Riley Keough) summons Russell Core (Jeffrey Wright) to hunt down the wolves responsible for the disappearance of three small children in the village of Keelut, Alaska, including her 6-year-old son Bailey.

Vernon proceeds to track Medora and commits several murders along the way, including John, an elderly hunter who treated him with wolf-oil as a child for his psychopathy.

[2] In January 2017, Netflix acquired distribution rights to the film, with Anish Savjani and Neil Kopp joining as producers.

The website's critical consensus states, "Hold the Dark's unsettling aesthetic offers more of what filmgoers expect from director Jeremy Saulnier — and is often enough to prop up shaky narrative underpinnings.