Darkness (1993)
Genre: Horror
Duration: 90 minuten
Alternative titles: Leif Jonker's Darkness / Darkness: The Vampire Version
Country:
United States
Directed by: Leif Jonker
Stars: Gary Miller and Randall Aviks
IMDb score:
5,6 (608)
Releasedate: 1 January 1993
This movie is not available on US streaming services.
Darkness plot
"Even the Dead Will Scream."
When a city is attacked by vampires, a man armed with a shotgun, chainsaw and holy water takes on the undead vampires. In his path he finds survivors and they join him. Together they move on to defeat Liven, the vampire king.
Reviews & comments
Vascago
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- 4798 messages
- 3622 votes
One of the bloodiest movies I have ever seen. That’s why, and because of the part where the sun rose, I’m giving it one star, but otherwise, this was deeply depressing. It all looked extremely amateurish and cheap. Washed-out colors, idiotic shots of vampires that are more zombies than vampires, deeply pathetic acting, and the absolute worst: the incredibly annoying death-metal soundtrack. It would blast out in the strangest places, sometimes even while a bunch of actors were talking to each other, so you couldn't understand them at all.
The movie is one big splatterfest, but it's just not fun. The hints at Evil Dead were also pretty sad, but when the sun came up and those vampire zombies started melting I still had to smile a little bit.
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Bobbejaantje
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- 2334 messages
- 2105 votes
What a viewing experience. It starts with a nighttime, ultra-violent gory scene filmed on grainy Super 8 mm that creates a creepy documentary feel, and with that, the tone is set. It never stops but unfolds into the outright nightmare that it is, which was also the intention of filmmaker Leif Jonker. It not only looks like a nightmare but also has a nightmare logic. This also means that the plot is unremarkable, as is the case in the best nightmares. As a viewer, you are unequivocally thrown into the events and sucked into liters of blood, severed limbs, and night views of an apocalyptic America. Supported by Carpenter-esque synths and death/thrash metal on the soundtrack. Intense.
It is the life's work of Leif Jonker, who independently wrote, directed, and produced the film. He started working on it at the age of seventeen in the late 1980s, and it would take several years before he completed this project on a microbudget. Unfortunately, it remained his only feature, but what a feature it is. It is a raw, bloody film that comes across as much more authentic than the average Hollywood mainstream.
There are three versions of it, and I myself have seen the 25th anniversary final cut (82 m), which for once is shorter than the previous cuts. Jonker cut some dialogue from the original and edited the whole thing even further into a fever dream. He succeeded with flying colors.
How amazing would it be to see this film on the big screen in a dingy little movie theater with sticky seats filled with two men and a horse's head.
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