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Sunday, February 9, 2003
 

MOVIE - DARKNESS FALLS - Review Rating $$ (OUT OF 10)

STARRING - Chaney Kley (Kyle), Emma Caulfield (Caitlin), Andrew Bayly, Lee Cormie (Michael), Peter Curtin, & Rebecca McCauley.

Director - Jonathan Liebesman (feature film debut)

The premise of this movie is that the Tooth Fairy is actually wicked and the cause of childhood night terrors.

This movie has an uncanny resemblance to WES CRAVEN PRESENTS THEY. Not exactly an original premise.

The problems with Darkness Falls don't end there. They include:

1) Characters who are supposed to be 22 years old who all look 30 and have careers associated with people who are actually 30; 2) A 22 year old character with a younger brother approximately 15 years her junior; 3) a very contrived premise; 4) a script that required 2 rewrites and still sucks; 5) special effects and sound effects on par, for the most part, with the Haunted House at a Community Fair; 6) the majority of spilled gas, in the lighthouse, inexplicably failing to ignite and; 7) despite being after Kyle for 12 years the Tooth Fairy is content to kill everybody else first.

If you truly want to be entertained, skip Darkness Falls, and check out this article debunking the myth of the Tooth Fairy (courtesy of Greg's Previews). Its very funny.

Darkness Falls is so dreadful I can't even recommend it as a rental.

FULL REVIEW OF DARKNESS FALLS & LINKS TO ALTERNATIVE REVIEWS

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