Average Rating: 3.3/10
Reviews Counted: 126
Fresh: 11 | Rotten: 115
A derivative movie where the scares are few and things don't make much sense.
Average Rating: 3/10
Critic Reviews: 26
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 25
A derivative movie where the scares are few and things don't make much sense.
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Children have a very good reason to be afraid of the dark in this flashy horror story. Matilda Dixon was a genially eccentric woman who, in the 1850s, lived in a New England town known as Darkness Falls. Matilda was well known to the local children for her habit of paying them for teeth they'd lost, but when two youngsters mysteriously disappeared, Matilda was lynched by an angry mob wrongly convinced that she had murdered the kids. In the year 2002, former Darkness Falls resident Kyle Walsh
PG-13, 1 hr. 26 min.
Jan 24, 2003 Wide
Apr 29, 2003
$32.0M
Columbia Pictures
All Critics (127) | Top Critics (26) | Fresh (13) | Rotten (116) | DVD (25)
It begins with not one but two prologues; one character turns up out of nowhere, his introduction no doubt left on the cutting-room floor; and the paltry 85-minute running time includes 15 minutes of end credits.
Oy, how it falls.
Do you really need me to tell you how scary this horror show isn't?
This is horror-flick boo-ya at its most rote.
Like something salvaged from Stephen King's wastebasket.
A truly awful and extremely loud scareflick.
So bad it's almost painful. Skip it.
his is a very flawed but entertaining and cheesy monster flick that would be fun to watch around a crowd with some popcorn.
Film lovers beware! The evil spirits of boredom will befall should you enter a darkened cinema and endure Darkness Falls.
A mish mash of horror-movie clichés.
The kind of movie that gets laughs entirely unintentionally.
All semblance of plausibility is extracted, leaving a cast of TV actors to struggle with a plot with more gaps than an eight-year-old's grin.
Exactly what a horror movie should be; fun, scary, fast paced, and with 'jump' moments galore.
This is, quite simply, horror porn, with barely any connective tissue linking each set piece.
Provides for more than acceptable campfire fare (although at under 80 minutes, it lasts less than most Duralogs), with occasional moments of genuine visceral fright.
The problem is that both the plot and the characters are so thin that it's hard to care about anything that's happening on screen.
There are a few cheap scares, but overall the film is, well, toothless.
You will find more frights in Finding Nemo. And you might just have more fun playing with your lollie wrappers, performing shadow puppets on the screen - or even picking your nose - than enduring this dimly lit horror movie.
The characters are empty, the performances wooden, and of course, the grave little kid is omniscient.
Darkness fell along with my eyelids, during this dire by-the-numbers horror film.
It started out real good. I mean REAL good. I absolutely loved the beginning. It was dead creepy. But then it started to get corny and boring in the end. Kyle's acting wasn't that good. His "stay in the light" dialogue seemed to be more like uttering a memorized line without having any feelings in it. And it
March 17, 2011
Super Reviewer
While the opening scene was promising and genuinely suspenseful, the rest of the movie wanders in a different direction to make it ultimately suck.I like the idea of not looking at the antagonist - sounds like the concept of a creepy myth. So why didn't they put more emphasis in that and leave all of the crap out? I
July 17, 2009Super Reviewer
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