By all rights DARK OBSESSION, released in Great Britain as DIAMOND SKULLS, should be an interesting film. The cast is strong and the subject--erotic obsession, guilt and betrayal--fairly compelling. But instead it's terribly dull, almost amazingly so.
Sir Hugo Buckton (Gabriel Byrne), whose aristocratic but financially strapped family must allow public tours of its ancestral home to afford its upkeep, is married to the sensual, bewitching and successful Virginia (Amanda Donohoe). Convinced that she's unfaithful, he retreats into obsessive and
self-destructive behavior, drinking too much and picking fights with Virginia. His family, who never really approved of ...
Released:
1989
Rated:
R
Length:
87 mins