“The Batman” has broken out as the biggest box-office hit of the year. Unofficially, the movie might have also set a new standard for the darkest superhero blockbuster ever made. 

Almost 100% of the movie plays out at night. Robert Pattinson’s vigilante superhero does his job in heavy rain, dim rooms and a nightclub resembling a bunker. One of the story’s few daytime sequences takes place at a funeral. 

“I am the shadows,” Batman murmurs in a voice-over before materializing in a crypt-like subway station to pummel a gang.