Darkness Falls (Special Edition)

Rating:
Summary: Horrible
Review: I mean c'mon this movie is bull s*** worst movie ive ever seen not even scary if u were a horror movie fan like me you would agree. it sucks on the movie review it got a D- it suck ok totally horrible

Rating:
Summary: Stay in the light...
Review: I just bought this movie on dvd 3days ago. One of the reason i bought this film is because its horror (i love scary movies). Second, Emma Cauldfield's in it and she's my favourite actress and also she's my favourite character in 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' Emma Cauldfield did an amazing job in this movie, the producer & director did a good job on picking her for this film. Also the kid did great and the rest of the cast. After watching this film, i could not walk in the hallways because it was dark, hehehe...but then i get over it. There's some parts that made me jump off my seat. I thought the beginning of the movie was great about the boy hiding in the bathub and the monster was on the wall. The special effects are also good, and for you people who's reading this, it's worth it to watch, go rent it or buy it.

Rating:
Summary: Scarier than The Ring? Maybe....
Review: Darkness Falls may be as scary as the ring, but that's because The Ring was not scary, Ringu (the japanese original) was. But onto the movie itself, there was alot of hype about this when it came out and I overheard people briefly speak on it as if it were a scary film. As the movie started, I knew what I was in for, the story itself is abit dull and this movie is filled with cliche's it's not even funny. So a woman is falsely accused as the kidnapper of two children from the town of Darkness Falls, she is burned and before she dies she put's a "curse" on the town, this somehow gives her the powers to come back and kill anyone who looks at her. There's not much I can say that hasn't been said, but alot of this movie doesn't make sense, and no way in hell is scary, unless you're a preteen. There were many instances where individuals managed to stay in the dark for moments at a time without being killed, which I found to destroy the whole movie. So she lays a curse on the town of Darkness Falls, why not move out? I guess it never occured to them. Artificial and natural light sources keep the monster from getting to you, and apparently, in order to kill her, her mask must be taken off when she's in the light. *SPOILER ALERT* Not that I care if I ruin this already poor movie for you, but why didn't the monster quickly take off before her death when she grabbed the main character? There's alot of flaws in this film, like why do adults get killed if they're long past the stage of dropping out their baby teeth? Anyways, I wouldn't reccomend this to anyone, I just finished watching it and I feel just the same after, it had no affect on me whatsoever. I'm not scared, happy, sad, mad, and I definately am not thinking about the movie like I would if it was any good. You come with nothing, and when it's finished you leave with nothing. It might make a good episode of The X-Files, even then I've seen better, and that's a failure on it's part. 1 star, possibly the lowest rating I've given a movie, or among the lowest. Want some advice? Don't waste your time.

Rating:
Summary: Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust....
Review: Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust.
That's all I could say after seeing this film. I only give it one extra star because the whole idea of the movie sounded quite interesting. But even at the very beginning of the movie it did not make any sense. The whole plot of the movie was that a man comes back to his home town where he hasn't been since his mother was murdered that he was accused of. He comes back only because his old girlfriend has asked him to help her brother who seems to be seeing the same creature in the dark that the man swore killed his mother years back.
Sound like a steady, concrete story line, and yet it isn't. There were already questions I was asking at the very beginning of the movie. Like why did this dangerous version of the Tooth Fairy (she looks more like a wicked old witch to me) kill the man's mother in the beginning anyway? I thought she only killed, as the legend goes, kids who lost their last tooth? And on and on do the questions go. And much worse, the actors did not at all seem believable. Overall, the movie never scared me whatsoever. At the end of the film I begun to fall asleep, and that's a bad thing when you watch a horror movie. When I watched Night of the Living Dead, the black and white version, I was up all night. But by the time the ending credits came on Darkness Falls, I was already drifting off.
The future sure is not looking bright for horror when it comes to movies like these.

Rating:
Summary: Rushed!
Review: That is the thing I most noticed about this movie. The fact that it feels rushed. It looks kind of like they took the movie. Wrote it all out. Then slashed all of the scenes between the action.
When I watched the deleted scenes I was struck by how much of them they should have left in. I mean the story's idea is great. But when it comes to actual plot, well the intelligence and the story level falls.
Not that the movie is not without charm. But personally I found the fact that the movie was loosely based off a true occurance, to be way more spooky than the movie itself.

BOTTOM LINE: This movie is pure Hollywood popcorn. No real plot beyond a Saturday afternoon movie. Fun in it's own way. But mostly just fodder. Rent it off the dollar rack. Don't buy it!