Darkness (2002)
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Duration: 102 minuten
Country:
Spain / United States
Directed by: Jaume Balagueró
Stars: Anna Paquin, Lena Olin and Iain Glen
IMDb score:
5,4 (20.972)
Releasedate: 11 October 2002
Darkness plot
"A house. A past. A secret. Will you dare enter?"
Regina, a young girl, has moved to a house in the countryside with her family. She discovers that her new home harbors a secret and threatens her family.
Actors and actresses
Regina
Maria
Mark
Albert Rua
Carlos
Villalobos
Paul
Driver traffic jam
Electrician
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Film Pegasus (moderator films)
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Recently we have seen another wave of these types of films. Think Mama, The Conjuring, Insidious, Sinister and The Awakening. But the genre is older of course. El orfanato, Mirrors of The Amityville Horror. But the really good films in this genre were much scarcer if you want to see the same atmosphere. It is mainly that playing with shadows, suggestion, darkness, ... Without explaining too much. And Darkness succeeds in that. Tension is built up for a large part of the film and the maker manages to maintain it until the end. Which is not obvious, because it usually derails the moment evil becomes more known. But Darkness can hold its own.
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SmackItUp
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It's just not all that.
Lately I've tried several films from Balaguero's oeuvre, but I haven't been blown away by them. With Mientras Duermes as a positive outlier (3.5*), but the rest is stuck at 2.5*. So is this Darkness.
However, the concept lends itself to some horror, but there is no real shudder. However, the atmosphere is fine. The house is still creepy. But Balaguero doesn't build exciting scenes. Individual moments are nice, but these are scarce. Only towards the end it shoots up a gear, but by then it is actually too late. So it doesn't help that too much time is spent on the I-believe-you-not tune. Seen too often, always just as annoying.
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