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- 2004
- Unrated
- Dimension Films
- 1 h 28 m
- 2004
- Unrated
- Dimension Films
- 1 h 28 m
Summary When a family moves into a seemingly quaint country house they discover that their new home has a horrifying past that may threaten them.
Directed By: Jaume Balagueró
Written By: Fernando de Felipe, Miguel Tejada-Flores, Jaume Balagueró
- 2004
- Unrated
- Dimension Films
- 1 h 28 m
- 2004
- Unrated
- Dimension Films
- 1 h 28 m
Darkness
15
7.6
Summary When a family moves into a seemingly quaint country house they discover that their new home has a horrifying past that may threaten them.
Directed By: Jaume Balagueró
Written By: Fernando de Felipe, Miguel Tejada-Flores, Jaume Balagueró
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Metascore
Overwhelming Dislike
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
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6% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
6% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
88% Negative
14 Reviews
14 Reviews
Metascore
Overwhelming Dislike
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
15
6% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
6% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
88% Negative
14 Reviews
14 Reviews
The thriller makes up in moody weirdness what it lacks in horror-tale originality.
Darkness was clearly tossed together like salad in the editing room, since it's little more than the sum of its unshocking shock cuts.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 333 User Ratings
7.6
77% Positive
255 Ratings
255 Ratings
3% Mixed
10 Ratings
10 Ratings
20% Negative
68 Ratings
68 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 333 User Ratings
7.6
77% Positive
255 Ratings
255 Ratings
3% Mixed
10 Ratings
10 Ratings
20% Negative
68 Ratings
68 Ratings
Darkness is an intense thriller with wonderful cinematography and a fine cast. The movie has eerie chills and if you like movies that have a dark atmosphere and unpredictable jolts, you will love Darkness.
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[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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Horror at Christmas might work, but tedium doesn't.
The sketchy characterizations, laughable dialogue and less-than-stellar performances by the formidable cast, all of whom have done far better work in the past, provide further reasons why Darkness should never have seen the light of day.
Some movies should never come to light, either, and Darkness, bearing a 2002 copyright, might well have been better left on the shelf.
The real mystery is why such a mangled film was not junked altogether.
Eurotrash for the new millennium.
This is another excuse for a movie with haunted houses, a theme more than recurring in horror. So common that the emptiness of new ideas creates movies like this. The whole story is set in my neighboring country, Spain (effective, the film is Spanish such as his director/writer, Jaume Balagueró) and revolves around an American family who went to live there. Unfortunately, the family story and the relationships between the characters are never interested in the plot, which focuses only on the house. But even this brings no novelty, merely reconstructing the usual formulas of horror that every horror lover has seen countless times and countless ways. Thus, the film becomes predictable and uninteresting. I even guessed how it would end. Even so, it manages to create a sufficiently tense environment to provoke some scares. I simply hoped for something more. Lena Olin and Giancarlo Giannini were the actors that I liked the most, as their performance was regular, lacking behind them better material and a more competent director. The rest cast did not call my attention for the positive.
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Production Company
Castelao Producciones,
Dimension Films,
Fantastic Factory (Filmax),
Filmax International,
Vía Digital
Release Date Dec 25, 2004
Duration 1 h 28 m
Rating Unrated
Genres
Tagline Some secrets should never come to light
Awards
Barcelona Film Awards
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Goya Awards
• 1 Nomination
Fantasporto
• 1 Nomination
