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Summary: pure, unadultarated garbage.
Review: Sat through the first 30 minutes of this way below par hollywood standard aimed at teens rubbish. Wouldn't call it a horror, certainly horrible!! Skipped to end for predictable finish. There are some great horrors out there, this aint one of them!Ridiculous plot about scary tooth fairy, acting and screenplaying embarresingly bad. Hated it! Rather watch "Bride of the Monster" anytime, now that's a movie :)
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Summary: A Killer Tooth Fairy? Why not make a killer Easter bunny!
Review: Okay, Hollywood is running out of ideas. A tooth fairy as a villain, how moronic is that? I am 14 and I found this movie quite boring and not scary at all. First off, their are many mindless glitches and the story always falls apart. First off, common sense, who would have the brains to live in a tiwn called Darkness Falls? 2nd, if the tooth fairy kills every child that loses their last tooth, how come no one else in the town is dead? I mean, really. 3rd, why is the tooth fairy all of a sudden spazing out and killing everyone? I mean, 2 or 3 deaths are fine, but when it comes to grabbing doctors and police men and throwing them everywhere the movie doesn't really make sense anymore. The beginning was okay, but after that, it's really stupid. Even when people are in the light they get killed. And "stay in the light" kind of starts to drag on after he says it 100 times. This movie is not very well thought out and not put together well at all. The cast is as boring as a ball of yarn and the story is, well, there really is no story. If you want a good horror movie see The Excorcist, Silence of the Lambs, Halloween, Candyman, Psycho or the Shining, but don't waste your time with this junk. It's really quite sad, because I watched it alone in the dark and I didn't even shiver. Who on earth is scared by a tooth fairy that sounds like a dimented opera singer?
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Summary: Cliches after cliches
Review: All the cliches are in it..even the black cat ! The story is nothing else than kind of Jeepers Creepers .. It's even laughable ! Nothing really new in this flick. It's boring and you know easy what it will happen next one more time. A pity ..The beginning, the 5 first minutes are cool.
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Summary: Darkness Falls is an Antique Horror Hit
Review: If you like the old b/w horror flicks, you'll love Darkenss Falls. Newcomer Chaney Kley is fantastic as the hunky hero, and the young boy is the least obnoxious sport I've seen in I don't know how long. There's more gore than you'd find in an antique horror flick, but less than you'd see on an average Saturday night of prime time. I absolutely cannot get enough of this film -- and I want to see Chaney Kley in more than horror and "Legally Blonde!!!!!"
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Summary: Great Opening 15 Minutes, Then Falls Down, Down, Down....
Review: The greatest part of "Darkness Falls" is its opening 15 minutes, in which you are informed that about 150 years ago a certain old lady Matilda is wrongly prosecuted by the townspeople in Darkness Falls (what a name...) for killing two kids, and she was put to death. The vengeful soul comes back to the town of the present day, in the form of the Tooth Fairy, claiming the lives of the people of the place. I say again, the first section is great, spooky and scary, partly becasue of the participation of Kyle Cooper, one of the influential title designers in the film industry (his titleback of "Se7en" is now a classic). But after that prologue, everything goes downward. The film uses the "hero and heroine" format, namely "Kyle" (newcomer Chaney Kley) and Catlin (Emma Caulfield, "Buffy, the Vampire Slayer"). They have to fend off the evil soul of Matilda, which dislikes the light, while the body counts rise, but the way the film shows them is devoid of imagination, originality, and worst of all, scares. The tactics the film uses is the kind of "shock" like sudden banging noise, and the decerning fans of horror genre would be bored with the result.
Probably, the most embarrassing thing is the film's basic idea of "fear the darkness" which has been used much effectively in "Pitch Black." To make matter more uncomfortable, the similar concept recently showed up in the little-seen film "They," and one recent Spanish occult thriller (featuring Anna Paquin and Lena Olin) uses it again, of which name incidentally "Darkness." What a coincidence, or maybe lack of creativity. While I was watching "Darkness Falls," and one of the characters say "Stay in the light," I was wondering, like, "So why not live in Las Vegas?" And next moment, the film jumps exactly to the place I imagined. In this way, you can anticipate every move of the film. In spite of these fatal defects called "predictable," the film took the NO.1 of US box-office chart, which is really scary.
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Summary: Decent Movie
Review: The first time I watched Darkness Falls, I really loved the movie. While it has a generic plot that I don't much like - I am a huge horror fan and love horror movies no matter how generic and standard they might be. There is not a lack of blood and gore, but there is not too much of it either. Just enough to keep you interested. This is a movie that you might have to watch 2 times to fully understand but it's totally worth it.
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Summary: Darkness falls short
Review: Darkness falls' whole story rests on the fact that at one time in our life (preferab;y childhood) we were afraid of the dark. The Idea is a beautifully told urban legend. The story in the beginning was great. The general idea of an kindly old woman exchanging teeth for coins in the 1800s is good. But one day she falls victim to a fire, which severely burns her face so She begins to wear a mask. One day, when children mysteriosuly disappear she is blamed and is executed. Now she returns to collect teeth in revenge and spite. Any child that looks at her face dies. This story was good. Then something went wrong. The movie's main character was introduced. We learned that as a grown man he was still afraid of the dark. The movie virtually fell apart. It was not scary at all. It was sad. They truly ruined this. They didn't take advantage of it.
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Summary: Another Horror Film that becomes a Camp Classic.
Review: In the 1800's, there was a woman by the name of Matilda Dixon that would exchange Children's teeth (Ones they had recently lost) for a gold coin and they named her "the tooth fairy". Then Matilda is wrongly accusted to murder two local children & they hanged her and the two children were found a day later. Before Matilda died, she put a terrible curse of the town of Darkness Falls. Years Later.... When a young boy by the name of Kyle (Joshua Anderson) lost his last baby tooth & one night, he tries to go to sleep, later on that same night, he heard strange noises & sounds. There's a old saying, if you don't peek & look at her, she won't touch you. When he did, she tries to kill Kyle & She did killed his Mother (Rebecca McCauley) by seeing her. 12 years later... Kyle has grown up (Chaney Kiley), Kyle receive a phone call from his close friend (Emma Caulfield) to ask him to come back to his home town to help her younger brother (Lee Carmie). Who seems to have the same fears as he does but Kyle never got over it. Kyle goes back to help the boy & face his fears but the Tooth Fairy has being waiting for Kyle and the Tooth Fairy might have a weekness for the light that could destory her. Directed by Jonathan Liebesman made a entertaining but campy supernatural horror thriller that recalls movies like Pitch Black & Jeepers Creepers. This movie won't get well with age but it's a surprisingly decent silly flick. The Creature Design is Created by Four-Times Oscar Winner:Stan Winston (Artifical Intelligence, Aliens, Jurassic Park). The Best Thing about this flawed film is the first fifteen mintues, which is terrific. Although most people hoped to be a darker, edgier, R-Rated scary movie. There's a few good scares and a nice sense of humor (Problem is:A few too Unintentional Laughs).DVD's has an sharp anamorphic Widescreen (2.35:1) transfer (also in Pan & Scan) and an strong-Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound. DVD has two commentaires tracks by the filmmakers, Deleted Scenes, Behind the Scenes featurettes & more. The Widescreen Cinematography by Dan Laustsen is Good but the film's plot could have used much more Complications and a much longer film. Screenplay by John Fasano (Another 48 Hrs), James Vanderbilt (Basic) & John Harris. Based on a Short Story by Harris (Which the film is actually Based, Believe or Not, on a real legend of Matilda Dixon). Super 35. Grade:B+.
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Summary: Oh god...
Review: 150 years ago, an old lady named Matilda lived in the town of Darkness Falls. Whenever the children of Darkness Falls lost a tooth, they would bring it to Matilda in exchange for a gold coin. One day, Matilda was caught in a terrible fire and her face was badley burned, so she had to wear a porcelin mask to cover up her burned face. When 2 children mysteriously went missing, they blamed it on Matilda and they hanged her. She put a curse on the town and now, instead of taking teeth out of kindess, she takes them with revenge. Okay, so the Tooth Fairy is an ugly witch with a mask that hates light and whenever a child in Darkness Falls loses their last tooth, she comes and if the child dares look at her hideous face, she'll kill them and anyone else who sees. Kyle Walsch was only around 13 or 14 and he lost his last tooth. That night, he is paid a visit by the TOOTH FAIRY! OOOOHHHH! Anyway, he escapes in to the hallway and his mother assures him that nothing is wrong. She takes a look down the hall and, gee what a surprise, the tooth fairy kills her. 12 years later, Kyle returns to the town and the tooth fairy is after his childhoos friend's son. This movie is very corny. It is so predictable, it's not even funny. She scratches people to death, what on earth? Why not make a killer Santa Clause while you're at it. Another corny part is when the Tooth Fairy kills the doctors. The only scary part is when she reveals her true face, which looks like my Social Studies teacher. :P This movie did have a few frights, but not many. IT IS CORNY. I mean, really, a killer tooth fairy? There is no real plot except to stay in the light and run a way from an old witch. Not very good at all.
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Summary: Excellent comedy... until I remembered I paid to watch it
Review: Hahahahaha..... the tooth fairy as the central character in a horror movie... yep, people are running out of ideas for scary movies. And this piece of trash was number one at box office in the US... Go figure. Anyway, I wanted to see a movie that made me jump a little, so I rented it. I turned off all the lights, tryied to get in the mood for such a movie but to no avail. I laughed from beginning to end. The tooth fairy goes into a killing spree (I'm laughing again) and takes revenge on children who peek at her porcelain-masked face at night. This is the plot. I don't remember much of the rest of the film, except the acting is simply ridiculous (all those idiotic frightened faces of the actors), the dialogue is a homage to soundless movies, the direction is quite amazingly bad and the climax scenes have more holes than a swiss cheese. The name of the city: Darkenss falls. What kind of name is that to a city? Who would want to live in a city with a name like that? But the most hilariating thing about this (...) is that the final credits are eleven minutes long because otherwise, at only 75 minutes long, the movie wouldn't be able to be released in the theatres. Awesome! Grade 0.5/10
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