This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

Darkness Falls gets its name from a fictional town of Massachusetts and opens with the legend of a widow named Matilda Dixon. Matilda was a well-respected woman of her community, and gave the children gifts whenever they would lose a tooth, quickly earning the reputation as the town's "tooth fairy." Later in her life, a bad house fire horribly disfigured her face, which she went on to cover up with a porcelain mask. With that, when two young schoolchildren went missing in the town of Darkness Falls, the adults were quick to blame Matilda and wound up hanging her. Using her dying breath, Matilda put a curse on the town, and after her hanging death, the two missing schoolchildren returned home unharmed. Matilda was buried shortly after and the whole town kept it an ugly secret.After this prologue is revealed, the film follows Kyle (Chaney Kley), who witnessed his mother's murder when it occurred and decides to return to his childhood home to see Michael (Lee Cormie), the younger brother of his love interest Caitlin (Emma Caulfield), after Michael claims he is being stalked by Kyle's mom's killer. The supernatural entity has apparently made life a living hell for both Michael and Caitlin, and Kyle seems be the only one with the potential to nullify the spirit's powers and bring an end to her murderous rampage.Darkness Falls is as schlocky and as stupid of a horror film as you can get. At barely seventy minutes long, carrying a whomping fifteen minutes of agonizingly slow end credits in order to hurdle the film past the acceptable eighty minute mark of a feature film, it has a notably difficult time conjuring up a story, let alone explaining it, and introducing characters we must be sympathetic towards for the film's entire runtime.This is a difficult film to watch because, while it sets up an interesting story of lasting paranormal activity and trauma in the prologue, it has a hard time iterating what exactly the spirit of Matilda Dixon is supposed to do, let alone wants, when it comes time to show Kyle and Caitlin's struggle to defeating it. Films like this, which are obviously meant to stand on their own and not carry the weight of an elaborate franchise with multiple plot-threads and story lines, need to find ways to cleanly summarize their stories and characters' intentions without getting too tied up in narrative ambiguity. Unfortunately, Darkness Falls doesn't really know the direction it wants to take with its story, nor does it really want to show us what is haunting Kyle and Caitlin or put much effort into creating a slowburn story in order for some suspense to build up.Ultimately, it winds up being a forgettable and seriously unexciting slog through a series of clichés that only further the film into a state of artificiality, and with a PG-13 rating, there's little Darkness Falls can do to feel edgy or very horrifying in place of its threadbare and convoluted plot. The film was directed by Jonathan Liebesman, the South African man who would go on to direct the prequel to the remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre before directing a series of action films at the dawn of the 2010's, with Battle: Los Angeles, Wrath of the Titans, and the third film reboot of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. With his track record, Liebesman feels to leave so much as a directorial imprint, or even indent, on a film that, from the get-go, feels robbed of a personality and a cogent identity, let alone a clear storyline. It's the kind of film that would've potentially worked as an artfully constructed and drawn graphic novel, but the approach it takes for the screen is completely uninspired, with no character interest and depressingly little horror etched into a story that should've dripped with fear.Starring: Chaney Kley, Emma Caulfield, and Lee Cormie. Directed by: Jonathan Liebesman.

Some 150 years ago in the town of Darkness Falls, kindly widow Matilda Dixon would give coins to the children who lost their teeth earning the nickname the Tooth Fairy. She got burned in a fire, forced to wear a mask and became sensitive to light. When two kids went missing, the town blamed her and killed her. It was a mistake. The kids came home and the town covered up the incident. In modern times, Kyle Walsh loses his last tooth. The Tooth Fairy comes and kills his mother. He escapes and forced into foster care. Twelve years later, childhood friend Caitlin Greene (Emma Caulfield)'s brother Michael has night terrors. She contacts Kyle (Chaney Kley) who also has the same fears except he has gathered a range of tactics to protect himself.I really like the idea of making the Tooth Fairy as a monster. It has a Brothers Grimm feel to it. What I really like is that it touches some really deep DARK primordial fears. Darkness is all encompassing and can be used very effective for fear. This is a movie about fear of the dark corners of the screen. It's not the most original idea and Chaney Kley is not an expressive actor. There are no hot young chicks. One can also nitpick this movie to death about the monster and the lights. The problem is that she has to have some light for her to be seen by the audience. In the end, this will F up the kids especially if they watch it in the dark.

When film makers need to crank up the sound effects volume to get a physical alarm response from the audience, you know the rest of the production is thin gruel. And this gratingly loud movie marries some of the weakest writing with some truly lazy acting, direction, and producing (for example, some kid who looks ready for his driver's test is cast as a 10-year-old). The very premise - a disfigured old woman who was once kind to children is lynched, curses a town, and comes back from the dead to kill people that happen to see her - is complicated, contrived and derivative of better movies. Don't waste your time unless you're truly wasted.

This movie was really scary!!! I watched it when I was 7 and was scared out of my mind, same as my mom who was very scared too. Some nights I was afraid to go to sleep. We however did not own the tape, it was rented, and as I aged I forgot what happened in the movie. When the video store near us went out of business a few years ago, I went with my mom to buy some of the tapes and DVDs that were for sale, she stumbled upon Darkness Falls. We both decided to buy it. Neither of us really remembered much of the plot. I was 12 then, and I didn't think that I would be scared anymore. Ha, I was wrong!! I was horrified!! I jumped nearly every time!! This is probably the second scariest movie I have ever seen!! I recommend this awesome movie to everyone!!