What Can I Say About Darkness Falls?
It is One of my favorites!
Some reviews of Darkness Falls
denounce this horror movie as being too formula. But if you're looking
for a good scary movie and are prepared to ignore the "horror
intelligencia" that say that you shouldn't love it, you'll be glad you
did.
Starring:
Chaney Kley as Kyle Walsh Emma Caulfield as Caitlin 'Cat' Greene Lee Cormie as Michael Greene Grant Piro as Larry Fleishman
Remember when you were
a kid? Alone, in bed at night. Can’t
sleep (because your mom probably made you go to bed at 8:00 PM) and so
you peer around your room in the dark.
What’s that shadow on the floor from moonlight spilling in
from the window? A scarecrow? And what IS that I see through the closet
door that’s open a crack? An eye? Oh no…under the
bed…what’s that noise?!?
Once in a while there is a movie
that captures the fears constructed in a child’s vivid
imagination that never completely leave us even into adulthood. Darkness
Falls is such a movie.
Darkness Falls begins
with a boy, Kyle Walsh (Chaney Kley), who has lost his last tooth. He
puts it under his pillow as any good lad should. He knows, however,
that the town lore in (the cheerily named) Darkness Falls reports that
the tooth fairy is actually the spirit of a woman that was persecuted
and generally treated badly by those that lived 150 years ago, and that
this “fairy” will do her job correctly and replace
the tooth with silver unless…you have the NERVE to see her
face while she’s replacing your tooth for money.
If you do see her, it is told,
you will be killed horribly. (She is, it would
seem, a bit sensitive about her burned up mess of a
face) Talk about having trouble sleeping…who could sleep
knowing that some frightful frauen is going to come in your room and
dare you to take a peek…..
Well, he can’t sleep,
and he does see her…and the result is that his mother is
killed when she comes to check out the closet to prove that everything
is alright.
Well Kyle is sent to a mental institution
among rumors that he brutally murdered his mother…and wrought
with terror of the dark. It seems that the tooth fairy will
not rest until she punishes Kyle for peeking, but she can only attack
in the dark.
12 years later Kyle is still
living in a brightly lit world, wielding
flashlights to fend off the attacker of the darkness. He comes back to
town when his childhood sweetheart is concerned that her little brother
is afraid of the dark and is apparently being stalked by the same
spooky specter.
Is Darkness Falls
a bit formula? Sure. Does it use many of the tried and true horror
tactics to startle and scare the audience? Definitely. Does this mean
that one should automatically discount the value and “scare
factor” of this flick? Absolutely not.
Sometimes I want to
see a scary movie
because it is, well, scary. The tooth fairy monster is scary,
that’s for sure. She darts through the dark to snatch people
up and carry them away – and she is very creepy and well done
through good special effects. The monster herself is original and
believably crafted. The scenes are interestingly constructed and
promote jumping and nail biting. The one thing that I didn’t
like, however, was that Darkness Falls was
extremely light on the gore. I think that the movie ran out of
“blood money”.
Listen folks, don’t
watch Darkness Falls looking for an academy award
winning presentation. Just watch it because it’s a good scary
movie that is fun to watch with friends with the lights
off…so that you will spend the rest of the night doing a double-take
at everything that seems to move in the shadows. Questions
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