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Darkness Falls (Special Edition)

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4 star:		(20)
3 star:		(19)
2 star:		(30)
1 star:		(48)

 

 

Instead of saying this movie was one of the worst films i've seen since S.I.C.K or HALLOW'S END, let's focus on what is good about the film...

1-The DVD cover is pretty good, looks scary.
2-The liner notes in the back make it look like a good horror film.
3-No name actors, which is great for a mainstream horror film because you never know who might die next.( besides the main actor and actress)
4-It's about a killer tooth fairy, pretty original idea.
5-I liked the special features especially the documentary on the real-life tooth fairy in that small town who gets killed and supposed to have put a curse on the people who live there.
6-And finally the trailer..looked promising, but decided to watch on Dvd when it came out.

So i guess we all know the outcome of what happened when i actually finished watching this film.

***TAKE IT FROM ME AND 95% OF THE OTHER REVIEWERS..DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME LIKE WE DID***

Darkness Falls follows a somewhat similar plot line as the previous
year's entry in the genre,They,but with a few differences.One,Darkness
Falls has a fairly well fleshed out back story.Two,the acting is
generally fairly good.three,the monster has a reason for being,a
motivation for its actions.also,the monster has a weakness,which can be
exploited.the core storyline is descent for this genre.the movie is
better paced and much better edited.the monster itself is however,not
so great.the look of the creature isn't the problem.the problem are its
movements,which do not look authentic in some scenes.now,the characters
themselves--very little in the form of character development.pretty
much your stock horror characters.none too bright and reacting in ways
which real people(hopefully)would not.yet,strangely likable somehow.you
kind of take pity on them.suspense--there were some tense moments.there
was a fair amount of action.however,at times the film became
chaotic--lots of sounds and sights all at once,including the music.the
only reason i can see for this to fool the viewer into thinking there
is more going on,than there really is,while hiding the movie's
shortcomings.and now the ending.it does nicely resolve things.no cheap
setup for a sequel here. i think it's a better movie than They,but not
as good as Boogeyman .it has a few tense moments with a few decent
action sequences and a decent,straightforward ending without the usual
'unexpected'(but really expected))twist.my rating for Darkness Falls is
a 3/5

This movie really sucks because, first off, who would really name a town DARKNESS FALLS? This movie did not scare me, really, it does not"circle around The Ring." The Ring was so much scarier than this hunk of crap. It's obvious what will happen next. Seriously, Scream scared me more than this. What's your problem? People who think this movie sucks, you better be reading this. Sign up on Amazon and say how much this movie sucks compared to a piece of crap.
This movie was totally pathetic, it's screwed, wrong, and not scary. Even when someone rings the doorbell, surprises me more than this movie. Thank god I watched it on Movie Central, or I would have wasted $9.99!

Truly, some one had to have really dedicated themselves to every inch of film shot in this movie too maximze its raw potential too suck with out even a hint of remorse.... Color me impresssed!

The only reason a person would have to watch this movie is to waste time. Which is exactly what I did. I decided to set aside a day because I wanted to watch some movies. The local library was my best bet so I picked up this and three others. This was the worst right next to Cabin Fever.

Well, getting into the meat of the movie, if there is any. Let us take a look at the corny plot, which consists of a young boy and a young girl being in love since childhood. The boy was hauled off for the murder of his mother, which, if you didn't see this coming, he didn't commit. Flash-forward to the "present time" and presto, her younger brother seems to have the same crap as he had when he was younger, night terrors. Well somehow she gets a hold of her middle school crush who, mind you, lives in an apartment that is full of lights, I mean there are no shadows here baby. Well to make this review shorter, they go after a cheesy looking puppet. **SPOILER** (If you really care). Well, you may have been able to guess this one, the two end up killing the thing in the end and get back together. Yay...Right.

The one good effect this movie did have was the flashbacks or flashes of the "Toothfairy". Another good point was the background story in the beginning, I actually thought this had potential when that began.

One minor fault is where the hell are the boys parents. Not once do we see them, and I imagine any parent who child is seeing ugly women in the dark would be right by their side.

Can I mention another great part in this movie, the song that plays during the ending credits.

All in all this film will not cause you to have a sleepless night, unless your one that has just lost your last tooth...

And remember don't peek...

Darkness Falls (Jason Liebesman, 2003)

Somehow I never got round to reviewing this. Which is okay, because everyone's already said everything I have to say about it, but hey.

This movie is probably going to end a lot of careers before they begin, and could have deleterious effects on a few others. I watched it (well, because I like bad horror movies) mostly because Emma Caulfield is hot and I could never stand enough of Buffy the Vampire Slayer to get a good enough fix. This ain't much better, but at least I could sit through it.

The Tooth Fairy (Antony Burrows in his big-screen debut, also a stuntman for the lead actor: what a surprise, a stuntman playing a monster) is a ghost who's been exceptionally pissed at a small town for a hundred fifty years. Every time a child loses his first tooth, he's visited by the tooth fairy, and if he's not asleep... well, trauma. Or the brutal and bloody murder of one's parents which then gets pinned on the kid, as happened to Kyle Walsh (Legally Blonde's Chaney Kley). Kyle, not surprisingly, split town after that for a while. No one believes in the Tooth Fairy (of course), and they all think Kyle's nuts (of course), but he comes back to town to save the son of his high school sweetheart, Caitlin (Caulfield). He's being stalked by the Tooth Fairy, as well.

First, just to get this out of the way: enough with the new age psychology crap already. Oh, boy, childhood trauma. Yeah, that hasn't been horribly overdone. (No one uses the words "inner child," but they're written all over Kley's face throughout. Try not to puke.)

Second, pretty much everything bad you can say about this movie, well, you can say. The acting is hideous, the pace is off, the jumps out of your seat feel more like you settling your butt deeper into the chair. I was more scared by the last Mary Kate and Ashley movie.

That said, there are two very above-average things about this flick. The special effects are tremendous, as is to be expected; the Tooth Fairy was designed by Stan Winston. Nuff said. Also, the direction has something going for it. Had Liebesman been able to put together as good a cast as found in, say, The Ring (or even as good a bad cast as found in, say, Cabin Fever), this might have been a wonderful little sleeper. Liebesman uses light and dark like he's working with a palette. Given enough time, he could be approaching the talent of David Lynch or early David Fincher. But this dog may have killed his career off before it got off the ground. * 

This movie was so terrible. The idea for the movie is actually retty good but the special efects and plot are terrible. Don't see it.

In "Darkness Falls" the monster in the dark that is coming to get you is the tooth fairy. What you basically have here is a cross between the wrong person being killed a long time ago from "The Blair Witch Project," the creature that only comes out under certain circumstances from the "Nightmare on Elm Street" movies, and the white mask from the "Halloween" movies. Now, what made the first Freddy Kreuger movie work was that there were these clear cut rules that actually came into play with the climax of the film. But in "Darkness Falls" the rules really do not explain what is happening on screen and the gross violations kill any momentum that the story might be generating.

Because the town lynched an innocent woman she takes her revenge by coming after kids when they lose the last of their baby teeth. But she only comes after you if you take a peek and look at her when she comes at night, because otherwise the town of Darkness Falls would have nothing but pre-teens and adults who moved into town. At the beginning of the film she comes for young Kyle Walsh (Joshua Anderson) who had just lost his last tooth, but gets his mother instead. Kyle is institutionalized because it is assumed that he killed his mother, despite the lack of forensic evidence to support the idea, but also because he is now afraid of the dark. But little Caitlin Greene (Emily Browning) believes in Kyle and their paths cross several years later.

Now the problem is Michael (Lee Cormie), the young brother of Caitlin (Emma Caulfield), who can only sleep for about ten minutes at a time because he has been totally afraid of the dark for three weeks. Nobody thinks to just let the kid sleep with the lights on when he drops off from sheer exhaustion or to just knock him out with tranquilizers. Instead, Caitlin brings Kyle (Chaney Kley) back to the hometown where everybody thinks he murdered his mom to help. Kley's performance as the hero is pretty good for this particular genre, although Caulfield is not given anything substantive to do, which is a shame since you know the primary reason I checked out this 2003 film was that it had a "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" cast member in it.

But once the lights start going out "Darkness Falls" starts to fail, big time. This is a film that offers no suspense (if the lights go out, the tooth fairy shows up) and no gore (she takes her victims away into the darkness, or, more accurately, the darker part of the darkness, otherwise we would never see anything). Then we get to the big finale and the rules go out the lighthouse window. Director Jonathan Liebesman is certainly competent, but the screenplay by John Fasano, James Vanderbilt, and Joseph Harris just presents too many problems with the story that there is nothing that can be done by the director or the actors to save this one in the end.

Yep it is your standard "if you do not believe me you're dead" story. A nasty spirit poses as the tooth fairy. A complete series of situations where two people that saw the fake fairy and are going to get theirs; in the mean time there is lots of collateral damage to friends and foes alike. Not much more to it. Do not expect any originality or plot twists.

ONe of the worst of 2003, I assure you...

Iy fou wanna lose precious time of your life, go ahead. I'll not try to express the bad qualities of this film, to not feel negative about things.