The script is okay, the acting isn't bad at all and the clichés are done away with early on so that we can actually get on with the film itself. Anyway, I liked DARKNESS FALLS a lot mainly because it avoids the traps that much kid-friendly fare falls into. Certainly if you look through history you'll find many well-documented curse stories that have no scientific basis. The 'witch's curse' type storyline is pretty predictable, but I liked the way they tied it into the tooth fairy myth – always great when they're frightening poor little defenceless kids – and there's something always slightly creepy about using witches, mainly because they're not made up. It's a film indebted to the recent wave of Asian horrors as characters are menaced by a female ghost who dispatches her victims off-screen. And then I watched DARKNESS FALLS, and I was hooked, and I realised something about halfway through: this is actually a great movie. It didn't help that I'd just watched THE FOG remake, which represented everything bland, boring and senseless about modern Hollywood horrors. Another teen-friendly PG-13 horror film that'll turn out to be a toothless (pun intended) waste of money and time.
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