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4.6 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 43 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 43
  2. Negative: 23 out of 43

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  1. AnnetteS.
    Jun 7, 2003
    1
    Someone told me this was better than The Ring. It was terrible.
  2. MaryH.
    Mar 3, 2003
    0
    I'm now dumber for watching such filth.
  3. YiYan
    May 29, 2003
    3
    It's okay, not too bad. remember, it's a horror! when has horrors never been good?
  4. JasonZ.
    May 1, 2003
    4
    C'mon. It wasn't THAT bad. Again, consider the genre. Horror has become synonomous with "bad movie" by critics everywhere, but horror films are meant to be outside the cinematic norm. Recent films like The Ring, Signs, Sixth Sense, etc. have taken over the public's expectations of what a horror film should be. News flash: the above films are not HORROR FILMS! They are complex, psychological thrillers that have elements of the supernatural and (at times) seek to scare. The horror genre is full of badly acted, poorly written, and devoid of plot movies. This movie entertained me for what it was. Do bad movies make me dumb? No. This is mindless fun based on the toothfairy Urban Legend. If you liked The Candyman, you will probably enjoy Darkness Falls. Expand
  5. AndyC.
    Mar 3, 2003
    0
    Wow. this story, like another horrible "movie"... COUGH! Jeepers Creepers! COUGH!...was COMPLETELY devoid of any real thought! My LORD how could anyone possibly tell someone else that this movie was scary ( Yes, someone told me this was the scariest movie he had EVER seen)? The plot: made no sense. The actors: horrible horrible and horrible! The bad guy: well, I don't really enjoy a character made entirely by computer animation and has the ability to make moaning sounds by old women. Expand
  6. [Anonymous]
    Sep 26, 2003
    3
    This movie was pretty stupid. I was told by someone that it was the scariest movie they had ever seen, I watched it alone at night and only jumped once. What's more terrible acting, storyline, etc, etc. But it was okay, just for something to watch.
  7. BigK.
    Dec 20, 2005
    0
    A truly dreadful, poorly thought out film with dreadful acting. Avoid.
  8. NathanS.
    Jun 2, 2005
    1
    Sad, pathetic, unentertaining. If they cut this down to oh, about the first 10 minutes I might be able to give it a better score, but the stupid premise, the abundance of cliche after cliche, and the bad overall work made me turn this film off.
  9. NickB
    Jun 3, 2005
    1
    Easily the worst horror flick I've ever been too, and I've seen a lot. I'd rather watch a marathon of old Italian slasher zombie flicks than be subjected to this one again. Continues to prove that the heyday of horror was in the 80's. I'd suggest seeing Jeepers Creepers or something else (seriously!) long before ever picking this lousy demonic tooth fairy tale up.
  10. PhillipK.
    Apr 23, 2003
    1
    [***POTENTIAL SPOILERS***] A perfect example of how the horror genre (unfortunately) makes up for probably 90% of all the worst movies ever made. It was SO f***ing stupid. The tooth fairy is a not-at-all scary burned-face old lady in a black robe (looking too much like the scepter from Scream) and can only get you in the dark... SO, conveniently, the whole town has a blackout. But in THIS town, the lighthouse has a gas-powered generator but the HOSPITAL doesn't -- somehow, in an escape scene from the hospital, the victims' concern is that there's only 2 minutes left of emergency lighting. Okay then.... And in one scene a guy crashes his truck through a glass lobby (a la T2), I guess to rescue some people, but there was no reason for it. They were right there at the door and could have just opened the frikkin' doors and walked out to the truck if he'd just parked it. But the jackass director with a mind of a 13-yr old must have decided it would look cooooooool. And this fairy is supposed to be a ghost -- bullets pass right through her, but later she can be punched in the face and burned too. Editing was a jarring mess too. No continuity from scene to scene. I could go on forever about all the little stupid and ridiculous moments, but it doesn't deserve my further attention...Worth mentioning, though, that this screenplay took THREE knuckleheads to write it. Idiots! The entertainment business is putting way too much money into the hands of puerile nincompoops. Oh, and don't waste time with the deleted scenes. They're video dailies with SMPTE coding and other timestamps whirring away, and all but one are just tiny blips of useless dialog... Expand
  11. ScottM.
    May 26, 2003
    0
    This film was sh.t.
  12. Aug 2, 2012
    0
    I had more laughs than scares while watching this. The acting was a hilarious and the plot not thought out at all, like they were desperate to just make a movie. The "demon" chasing them was quite amusing as well; the way it was set up was very unbelievable. The appearances she made were totally random and put whenever the movie seemed too "dull" for the director. It was either a great comedy or a horrible horror film. Expand
Metascore

Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 27 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 27
  2. Negative: 19 out of 27
  1. Darkness 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.
  2. A truly awful and extremely loud scareflick.
  3. Isn't satisfying or surprising. It doesn't even make sense from scene to scene.