Absolutely the worst movie.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Why would bacon play in such a poor movie other than being skint and needing the money?

Every character in this film is unlikable. the movie doesn't set up a pemise other than spooky scooby doo rocks, and jumps straight into a "scary" movie about a over reacting daughter and a creepy and slightly annoying boy with autism, although I have no beef with the condition itself, just how the actor is in the film. and all around never will like this film.

When I saw the darkness, I felt like I needed to take out a ghost movie checklist and start listing everything I had seen before. Weird or Special needs child who communicates with the spirits? Check. Annoying, angry teenager that adds nothing to the plot? Check. Father with fidelity problems that doesn't believe in the spirits at first? Check. Mother with alcohol problems that seems crazy to everyone else? Check. The Darkness follows a strict character and story design and doesn't try to add anything unique or interesting. The movie is also terribly fast paced and tries to throw way too much in one sitting that everything just seems squished together and has no emotional impact. There are no real scares or thrills, only non-impactful jump scares that fall flat. The sad thing is that we have very good acting talent in this film, but the writing, directing, and editing is done so badly that the acting looks terrible.

"The God you might be familiar with cannot help you now." A quote from an American Indian expert in the film. Really? Well, if we're talking about Mammon, which the family obviously worships, then I might agree. But it's pretty evident that the writer meant the Creator of All, and since that is likely the reference, it's ludicrous at best to think for a second that God can't handle a few Indian demons. If that's not enough, since the idea of the pre-1980s atmospheric "slow burn" is popular again, the director attempts it here, and fails miserably. This one is a worthless piece of tripe.