Darkness
Directed
by: Jaume Balaguero
Starring: Iain Glen, Lena Olin, Anna Paquin
The current cookie cutter being used by Hollywood to bake up today’s mainstream horror movies needs to be taken away from the kids and placed on a high shelf…possibly even locked in an electrified box covered with angry scorpions. Let’s go down the list and see how The Darkness stacks up:
1) A haunted house – check!
2) A persistent bluish gray lens filter – check!
3) A creepy kid who knows what’s going on before the adults do – check!
4) Plot elements revealed through a child’s drawing – check!
5) Main characters in the middle of events who refuse to believe anything out of the normal is going on – check!
6) A non-mother mother figure saving a child – check!
Well, that’s all I can think of right now, but you get my point. I’m not going to go into too much detail on the plot, but if you liked The Ring, and The Ring II, The Grudge, Darkness Falls, Boogeyman,etc., etc., then you’ll like Darkness, because it’s pretty much identical to all of those, which in turn are pretty much all identical to each other.
Darkness is about a family who moves into a haunted house during a particularly bluish/gray time of the year with a creepy kid who notices that the house is haunted so he draws some strange pictures about it, but the adults ignore him until it’s almost too late and the kid has to be saved by his sister. The End.
- Clif
