The Darkness

2016 "Evil comes home"
4.5| 1h32m| PG-13| en
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A family returns from a Grand Canyon vacation with a supernatural presence in tow.

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Glimmerubro It is not deep, but it is fun to watch. It does have a bit more of an edge to it than other similar films.
Dirtylogy It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.
Verity Robins Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.
Geraldine The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
fedor8 Someone included this film on a list called "Modern-Day Imperialist Capitalist Propaganda". No joke. But I assure you there is nothing here remotely imperialist or political even. Bolivian mushrooms aren't a toy, they are to be avoided or at least used under supervision. All the rage among film fans.It's just an average haunted house flick. The set-up is actually fairly solid, but the movie gets a bit tiresome by the half-way point, and then simply boring in its grand finale, with silly cliche scenes of Latino psychics trying to ward off the evil demons.I doubt the film-makers understand autism. The autistic kid is never spooked by anything, whereas real autistic kids are very easily spooked and do not feel comfortable in new surroundings or strange goings-on, especially on their own. And who the hell leaves an autistic child to roam in a desert by themselves? It's very convenient for the writer to make the kid autistic so he could prevent him from telling everyone what's going on. Kind of a cheap plot-device if you ask me.
d_keenan1 This will be a quick review. A wee bit of advice Kevin, stick to EE ads mate.....
stratus_phere It's not easy to find these days...horror movies that have good acting, good script, and a good ending. But this one has it. I really hate how most horror movies have a "surprise" ending where the ghost (or whatever creature) comes back and wins in the end. It's so tired and cliched. If you think of some o the best horror movies ever made - The Exorcist, Poltergeist - they had good endings. No weird surprises where the demon came back and killed them all just for shock value. This movie is good if for nothing else than it didn't play into that stupid cliche.Also, I've seen very few movies that delved into Anasazi mythos. It was trendy for a while back in the 90s, which the petroglyphs and Chaco Canyon. So I'm glad brought that in as the main ghosty antagonist.It was nice to see Kevin Bacon back in a horror movie, it's been a while since Stir of Echoes. There were other solid actors as well, such s Paul Reiser. So not a lot of cheesy acting here.It was about a nice family trying to hold it together, and in the end they succeeded. Good for them. I know other reviews blast this movie because the family is white, because they aren't gay or lesbian, and other odd reasons for hating people. But ignore them. This is a good horror flick. Enjoy.
lorcan-61881 The darkness..where do i begin. family,grand canyon,evil spirit comes home,boring..there ya go,quicker way to say plot. This film is awful,i absolutely hated it,the plot was one of the most worst ever. This is like just thinking up the worst plot ever like a haunted shoe or a bottle of perfume from many centuries sent back to kill. The acting is also bad,its like a man just picked a bunch of random people to star in this..awful. The darkness is a terrible,no scary,disastrous horror film. Hate It!