Darkness is a bad horror movie with a few scares and a lot of yawns. A family moves into an old house in the country, but the daughter Regina (Anna Paquin) discovers a horrifying secret that comes out at nighttime and learns that the house used to be the site of a sacrificial ritual gone wrong. The plot sounds scary and even though its not original they could have still tried a little harder. The cast is pretty good with the best being Anna Paquin and Lena Olin. They both do a pretty good job but their performances can't save the movie. The script has a lot of holes in it and the film just leaves the audience in the dark. The film runs for 102 minutes but it feels a lot longer and it was really boring at some scenes. Jaume Balagueró should have done a better job as Darkness had a lot of potential to be scary. The ending was also pretty bad and didn't really make a lot of sense. This may be one of the worst movies I have ever seen at a theater and certainly one of the worst horror movies I have ever seen. I understand that this movie was edited so it could earn a PG-13 rating but Miramax should have just stuck with the "R" even if it would have done worse at the box office. Rating 3/10, I recommend you wait until the DVD comes out so you can enjoy it more and maybe the deleted scenes will help you understand the story better.
Review of Darkness
