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The Darkness
Peter Taylor, his wife Bronny and their two children return to Los Angeles after a fun-filled vacation to the Grand Canyon. What they unwittingly bring back is a supernatural force that preys off their own fears and vulnerabilities, threatening to destroy them from within...
25 October 1988, Alameda, California, USA
11 January 1985, Havana, Cuba
4 October 1969, Los Angeles, California, USA
13 October 1964, Chicago, Illinois, USA
January 16, 2017
The eventual transformation of The Darkness into a tedious genre exercise is particularly disappointing given its strong opening...
May 14, 2016
McLean must have believed he was making John Cassavetes' "Poltergeist," but this odd fusion of psychodrama and supernatural hokum gets away from him.
August 15, 2016
The Darkness does offer up several great moments visually that are pure nightmare fuel, but what follows truly lacks any sort of boundary-pushing that you'd hope to see from the guy who introduced us to the murderous Mick Taylor in Wolf Creek.
May 13, 2016
From the troubled child who communes with the beyond to the featureless suburban home that hosts malicious spirits, this movie ticks all the boxes for modern mainstream shockers.
August 02, 2016
Blumhouse Productions releases one of its most forgettable films with The Darkness, a poorly thought out, thoroughly unsurprising horror movie.
September 21, 2016
We get Radha Mitchell, surrounded by Pottery Barn furnishings and moping, and Kevin Bacon conducting a valiant effort to keep himself from falling asleep.
July 01, 2016
Oddly, this well-cast horror movie is more interesting for its family drama than for its scares. It might almost be worth seeing, if not for the nonsensical story, jump scares, and other lazy stuff.
May 13, 2016
Offers very few new scares, mainly because it's so haunted by the ghosts of far better horror movies.
May 20, 2016
Native American Poltergeist - I mean, The Darkness - is a bland blend of popular paranormal movies that never defines itself.
September 12, 2016
We need, you Carol Anne. Stay away from the light, dear.
May 13, 2016
There are times when it feels as if the producers challenged themselves to see how little it needed and still meet the legal definition of a movie.
