The Darkness Reviews

Since this movie had received some really poor reviews and ratings, I wasn’t expecting much but since I have a weak spot for Kevin Bacon, I thought I might as well check it out. Well, to be honest, I didn’t care much about the damned thing after all. I mean, it was visually not bad but everything in the story was just so derivative and barely entertaining at all. For example, each character in this family had their own struggle (the boy was autistic, the girl was anorexic, the mother was a recovered alcoholic and the father had cheated on his wife) and all these little dramas were not developed whatsoever and even rather poorly written (seriously, nobody figured out before that Stephanie had stashed 100 of jars under her bed?!?). But the dysfunctionality of this family was actually more interesting than the actual horror story which was even more tedious. Indeed, for most of the duration, you just wait endlessly until finally something happens and you get some very basic jump-scares along the road. Coming back on the poor writing, it was rather pathetic that the first video they find on YouTube explains exactly what is happening to them and exactly what they should do to fix it. As a result, you might wonder why they even bothered with this shaman who gave one of the least impressive exorcism session I have ever seen. For Blumhouse, even if I’m not a huge fan of their work, this movie got to be a seriously low point for them. For Greg McLean, this movie was supposed to be his introduction to Hollywood so it was quite a false start but it seems that since then he still managed to bounce back afterwards. Anyway, to conclude, I think my rating was actually rather generous here, indeed, the damned thing was really weak and you should probably avoid it. 

Well I didn't remember this until just recently. I thought wow the kid from Gotham is already getting blockbuster roles. It seems to be your typical PG-13 type of horror. This is written and directed by Greg McLean who did the very disturbing Wolf Creek movies. Of those I only like the second one. Shayne Armstrong and Shane Krause are the co-writers who also wrote Bait (an Australian shark movie I loved!). The cast here is a pretty interesting mixture. I wonder what kind of Autism that is. He easily found an exit close to where they were? That doesn't seem likely. The opening for this was pretty damn stupid. So far everything is by the books for this type of horror. There hasn't been anything new except the actors. Even the characters themselves have been done like a million times. They are quite the dysfunctional family. Lucy Fry looks odd in some scenes. Like I keep thinking they have two daughters because of how different she keeps looking. Well I'm glad that wasn't a successful attempt. What is that a collection of bongs or something lol? That is some seriously fast internet right there. I wish I had that. Whenever I see Ming-Na Wen in a joyous mood in a movie I feel now it's her being Agent May from Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. on a mission haha. Wait so that whole Bulimia thing was quickly solved in like 2 scenes and never shows any importance again? Is it just to show how out of touch the family is with each other? Does it just show the poor writing here? That ending was so corny. There were so many unimportant little subplots spread throughout here. The only good thing here was the acting. Everything else was just so typical. This is probably one of the worst haunting kind of movies I have seen. It's a huge waste of time. Avoid this one.