Darkness

Darkness

Darkness, Darkness, Darkness…I was so excited when I saw the preview. The sporadic flashes of mutilated children appearing in the dark, the film’s gritty appearance…it was tantalizing. In all honesty I think production companies should be FINED for screening perfectly promising trailers and then letting their audiences down while we’re sitting in stadium seats and sipping on a $5 soft drink and eating a $4 bag of popcorn ! As I sadly watched the credits roll with my mouth dropped, viewers yelled at the screen “I want my money back !”

Darkness tried so hard to be scary and suspenseful it was a joke. It was like I was watching clips of The Shining, Sixth Sense, and The Ring all bundled in one with bad editing. Three mysterious women hire a contractor to draw the blue print to a house where a supposedly horrorible occult/cult acitivity and kidnapping occurs then 40 years later…yes 40 years, a family moves in the same house and the father becomes possessed and the male child is wanted as a sacrafice/replacement by the spirits of the three women, oh yeah and the grandfather of the possessed dad is involved too. Does that make sense ? It didn’t make sense in the storyline either. The acting in Darkness was mediocre and personally, I thought Anna Paquin’s acting was the worst..although I enjoyed her performance in It’s The Rage (1999).
Well on the Joice Meter of Fight For Tickets, Wait For Hollywood Video Release’s on Tuesdays or Drive By The Theatre…I say drive by the theatre where Darkness is screening.