The Darkness (Blumhouse horror) Kevin Bacon

[Chaotic]

The Darkness - Official Trailer (2016) - YouTube

[AaronJ]

Looks somewhat promising. Kevin Bacon's always a plus, that's for sure.

[P-Rock]

Meh, looks like a typical run-off-the-mill Hollywood 'horror' movie.

[darkness2918]

Now that looks interesting indeed. I definitely wanna check it out.

[Echovoid52]

The guy who directed the visionary "Wolf Creek" is behind this generic looking shlock?.....

Sad.


Looks litter utter shite.

[Holmes]

A dispiriting, dull, and incredibly tame American debut by gifted Australian director Greg McLean, who infused Wolf Creek with brutality and despair vivid enough to earn Roger Ebert's zero-star vitriol and turn the heads of hardcore genre fans worldwide. He also directed Rogue, an old-school tourists-versus-saltwater-crocodile creature feature with a genuine sense of adventure. Here, sadly, he is adrift amid Nancy Meyers production design and the hoariest of James Wan-style jump scares. The story turns on a privileged and modestly dysfunctional family (the patriarch is a sleepy Kevin Bacon) who encounter a supernatural menace after their autistic son chances upon mystical Native American artifacts during a trip to the Grand Canyon. It is the type of film in which characters frequently turn to Google to find hyper-specific information regarding otherworldly arcanum. McLean seems completely unable to energize the material, staging one of the most anticlimactic and languid exorcisms in a long time, and his bid to introduce grit by assigning every family member a flaw—father has a wandering eye, mother hides vodka in the sofa, sister is bulimic, brother is autistic—is undermined by anemic character development and the total absence of anything resembling interest in or sympathy for these people.

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[Creed]

The Darkness - Movie Review - YouTube

[Will.]

Originally Posted by Chaotic

The Darkness - Official Trailer (2016) - YouTube

The Indian spirit angle is pretty cringe-worthy....

[Jennifer Lawrence Fan]

Another Blumhouse winner it seems.

[MikeScott]

Sounds really bad. What a bummer coming from Greg McLean. I'll still probably catch it on discount Tuesday though.

[Monterey Jack]

Nice ZERO % approval at Rotten Tomatoes. Even crap like Epic Movie and Meet The Spartans got a token one percent or so.

[Destinys Memory]

Originally Posted by Will.

The Indian spirit angle is pretty cringe-worthy....

The whole movie is pretty cringe-worthy...

[MazeRunner]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...otten_Tomatoes

The first film with 0% to get a wide theatrical release since One Missed Call in 2008? Never saw that in theatres, but I saw this, so I can finally say I watched a 0% RT score movie in theatres.

The family drama and set-up was decent, but the lack of original scares and decent ending are what drag it down. Those problems could've EASILY been fixed. Add better scares that work and change the crappy ending? The film is also very lazy as the characters go on fake Google/Youtube (something called Ewebvideo/Ewebsearch) and find all the answers to their specific paranormal problems. The Mexican woman coming to "cleanse the house of spirits" is also a bit cliche/ridiculous/racist.

Also, the mother's name, Bronny, might be the worst movie character name of the year.

The scariest thing about this film is that the teenage daughter keeps her vomit in jars and containers underneath her bed.

[Destinys Memory]

Originally Posted by TakeApartYourHead

The Mexican woman coming to "cleanse the house of spirits" is also a bit cliche/ridiculous/racist.

I liked how the girl was there to interpret and then once the family spoke to the exorcist she didn't interpret anything.

Also, thought it was odd that the mother/father who didn't seem the least bit religious, suddenly out-of-nowhere go off on a tangent in the hotel room about the lack of a Bible.

- "They don't have Bibles in hotel rooms anymore because it's discriminatory."
- "Jesus..."
- "Not anymore."

Like, what am I watching here?

Originally Posted by TakeApartYourHead

The scariest thing about this film is that the teenage daughter keeps her vomit in jars and containers underneath her bed.

Her completely over-the-top freak-outs are the only reason to see this. She belonged in an asylum.

[MazeRunner]

Originally Posted by Destinys Memory

Also, thought it was odd that the mother/father who didn't seem the least bit religious, suddenly out-of-nowhere go off on a tangent in the hotel room about the lack of a Bible.

- "They don't have Bibles in hotel rooms anymore because it's discriminatory."
- "Jesus..."
- "Not anymore."

They could have saved some money by staying with the wife's mother? Also why did the father take his family to the hotel where he has affairs? The hotel clerk kept giving him dirty looks so I assumed he'd been there before with other women.

Also, a house that big and they don't have an alarm system for when the demons disguised as wolves entered their house?