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- 2016
- PG-13
- BH Tilt
- 1 h 32 m
- 2016
- PG-13
- BH Tilt
- 1 h 32 m
Summary As a family returns home from vacation at the Grand Canyon, they innocently bring home a supernatural force that preys off their own fears and vulnerabilities, threatening to destroy them from within, while consuming their lives with terrifying consequences.
Directed By: Greg McLean
Written By: Shayne Armstrong, S.P. Krause, Nacoma Whobrey, Greg McLean
- 2016
- PG-13
- BH Tilt
- 1 h 32 m
- 2016
- PG-13
- BH Tilt
- 1 h 32 m
The Darkness
27
2.5
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Summary As a family returns home from vacation at the Grand Canyon, they innocently bring home a supernatural force that preys off their own fears and vulnerabilities, threatening to destroy them from within, while consuming their lives with terrifying consequences.
Directed By: Greg McLean
Written By: Shayne Armstrong, S.P. Krause, Nacoma Whobrey, Greg McLean
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
27
0% Positive
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40% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
60% Negative
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
27
0% Positive
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
40% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
60% Negative
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
It’s vaguely endearing to watch Bacon and Mitchell actually try to act their way through the film’s family drama, as though it weren’t a perfunctory pretext to jump scares. The Darkness needs their chops. It needs anything to distract horror fans from the fact that there’s nothing new here.
The Darkness offers very few new scares, mainly because it's so haunted by the ghosts of far better horror movies.
User Score
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 59 User Ratings
2.5
8% Positive
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
25% Mixed
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
66% Negative
39 Ratings
39 Ratings
User Score
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 59 User Ratings
2.5
8% Positive
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
25% Mixed
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
66% Negative
39 Ratings
39 Ratings
Greg McLeans' "The Darkness" is bland and so predictable and it has the clichés in a horror film, but I had fun with this film despite the problems I had with the script (which McLeans co-wrote the script along with Shayne Armstrong and Shane Krause) at least they made an interesting horror film and made Kevin Bacon and Radha Mitchell likeable, but their the only people who I actually liked in the movie overall. Kevin Bacon and Radha Mitchell play a married couple, their on a vacation with their son Michael (David Mazouz) and daughter Michelle (Lucy Fry) in the Grand Canyon. While exploring into the Grand Canyon Mike fells inside the Grand Canyon and finds some weird ancient rocks. Mike takes the rocks with him as they leave the Grand Canyon and takes it home with him. Weird stuff starts to happen with the family. Despite idiotic characters and predictable scares I was still entertained and had fun with the film also Kevin Bacon and Radha Mitchell's performance were the only things I liked in the movie. 3 out of 4 stars
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While McLean and company admirably aim for some relevance by tying the Taylors’ haunting to their personal demons, ultimately The Darkness is just the same old show: things that go bump in the night, and the tasteful decor they defile.
It’s like being haunted by outsized chimney sweeps that never bathe. And for the most part, it’s about that scary.
At some point in the production process, co-writer/director Greg McLean must have believed he was making John Cassavetes’ “Poltergeist,” but this odd fusion of psychodrama and supernatural hokum gets away from him.
The Darkness is pretty much a total bust—it isn’t scary, it isn’t exciting and it plods along at such a snails pace that even though it clocks in at just over 90 minutes, it plays like it runs at least twice that.
Amid the rarely very creepy buildup to the Amityville-ish showdown to come, the screenplay piles on more unrelated domestic drama than the picture can take.
Mostly bad, generic supernatural fluff. The ONLY remotely interesting part is how the family is infected by "the darkness" so that their pre-existing faults and secrets are exposed to all. Of course those wind up being just insignificant moments in a plot moving full steam ahead towards the most boring and predictable Poltergeist-style house exorcism ending possible without much thought put behind any of it.
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When the ancient spirits set loose.
Usually horror films are the most clichéd genre, especially when it comes to those scaring parts, all the films use the same sudden sound effects and disfigured human images with the strong makeup or the graphics. This film is nothing less than any of those, but a bit too much in the first three quarters. Like they are keeping some suspense, but it was just dragging to extend the film length and what comes in the final quarter is actually the story with a twist. So when that revelation happens, you would probably lose complete interest on this. Because that's not the demons you're expecting after all the hype was created in the earlier segment.
The story was just okay, but it was well known to us in different forms from the different films. In this, it is set in a different location with different cast, so that makes the film is fresh, but it wasn't. Some ancient spirits were set loose when a family was picnicking and it follows them to their house. Now they suffer from some unexplainable events and they decide to get rid bringing the people who can. That leads to the final act where the story comes to end.
They say it was inspired by the real event involving a family. So that might interest some viewers to check it out. But if you're an atheist, this is just a joke. From the director of 'Wolf Creek' with the decent performances by Kevin Bacon and Radha Mictchell, the film did not become best among its theme. Just a watchable film, after that you won't going to remember it a week or a month later. Very few might like it, but it's impossible to say who they're, so I'm not going to suggest or reject it.
4/10
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Absolutely terrible. Everything is a cliche and idiotic. Kevin is clearly in this for a paycheck and the only reason why you should even watch the movie on tv.
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A horror film that isn't scary in the least. It's just cliche after cliche with a pretty poor script. I will give it points for a decent idea toward the 3rd act, but overall this one is pretty bad. D-
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Production Company
Blumhouse Productions,
Chapter One Films
Release Date May 13, 2016
Duration 1 h 32 m
Rating PG-13
Tagline Evil comes home
