Mysterious DARK PLACES Trailer Don’t miss the new DARK PLACES trailer! The film, directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner, stars Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Christina Hendricks, Chloë Grace Moretz, Corey Stoll, Tye Sheridan, and Drea de Matteo. DARK PLACES will be released in theaters on August 7. A woman who survived the brutal killing of her family as a child is forced to confront the events of that day by a secret society obsessed with solving notorious crimes.