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60Once you get past the inherent silliness of the premise, what we've got here is actually a deft little chiller, stylishly directed despite the so-so cast.
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50Stephen King without the snap, David Lynch without the kink, teen horror without the teen hormones, Darkness Falls falls apart in a crescendo of creepy-crawly hoo-ha. It's more like Darkness Kerplunks.
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50So much schlock and melodrama find their way into Darkness Falls that when an exasperated character shouts near the end ''All this over a [expletive] tooth!,'' you know how he feels.
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50If you’re looking for a compelling horror flick, don’t waste your time with Darkness Falls.
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50Basically brings home the bacon for horror fans -- it offers decent special effects and a nice array of those moments where you shriek and jump and nearly pee your pants but it turns out to be Mom or the cat after all.
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50It's an instantly disposable and shamelessly derivative piece of work -- call it petit guignol, and you won't be far off the mark -- but first-time feature helmer Jonathan Liebesman shows a savvy flair for atmospheric visuals.
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40You can barely tell what's going on half the time, but what you do see is effective.
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40About as scary as a ride on a minor roller coaster, it unrolls its amplified butcher-block shock effects within the first five minutes.
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38The plot is as riddled with holes as Matilda's victims, making her sudden appearances more distracting than distressing.
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38Isn't satisfying or surprising. It doesn't even make sense from scene to scene.
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A joyless amalgam of horror movie cliches, none used more exhaustively than the false alarm.
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30Its real problem is that Matilda Dixon, apparently conceived as a cross between the Blair Witch and Freddy Krueger, is an oddly characterless bogeyman, perhaps because she's 100 percent special effects technology with no actor underneath.
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30Not good enough to qualify as classic Gothic horror, not nearly fun enough to qualify as great B-movie camp.
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25Do you really need me to tell you how scary this horror show isn't?
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25A cheesy horror film can offer a vicarious cheap thrill or two. Darkness Falls offers only a test of the patience, not even providing much chance to laugh at the sheer ridiculousness of its villain.
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25Darkness Falls was formerly known as "Tooth Fairy," but could just as well have been titled "Dumb Then Dumber" for the way its plot makes decreasing sense even by the low standards of B horror flicks.
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25Dumb.
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25God forgive me, but I worship the Bad Dialogue Fairy -- he gets me through these endless nights.
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25Oh, this is all so terribly not good.
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16Darkness Falls is like something salvaged from Stephen King's wastebasket.
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12A lamebrained attempt at horror that is just a derivative pastiche of ideas lifted from other bad films.
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10Black cats, ill-timed power outages and children in peril are just a few of the hoary scare tactics ineffectively rendered in the style of so many films buried in the dark recesses of January.
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10Powered by dim bulbs on both sides of the camera, Darkness Falls barrels ahead with unrelenting stupidity, forsaking many of its own rules in search of the next cheap shock.
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This is horror-flick boo-ya at its most rote.
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10Darkness Falls -- with a thud. But it does not go gently into the night, for director Jonathan Liebesman and his large crew cram as much style and energy as they can into a hokey and morbid supernatural thriller plot. It's a downer to see so much effort expended on such junk.
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This moronic horror movie has the earmarks of a disastrous shoot patched up in editing.
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0A truly awful and extremely loud scareflick.
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Positive: 8 out of 19
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Mixed: 1 out of 19
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Negative: 10 out of 19
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KelliM.9I love this movie. It's a good horror film.
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BigK.0A truly dreadful, poorly thought out film with dreadful acting. Avoid.