Darkness Falls (2003)

The film suffers from way too many plot flaws and repetitive dialogue. I mean honestly, how many times must they say "stay in the light"?? The film has some great visuals, though. Apart from the forced scares thanks to cats and music, the film offers very few thrills and chills. There are better films of the same genre out there.

Legend has it that 150 years ago, in the town of Darkness Falls, Matilda Dixon would give a gold coin to kids for their lost tooth. After a fire burned her home and part of her face she became sensitive to light and would only move about during the dark with a porcelain mask. Two children went missing and the townsfolk blamed her and burned her alive. While being burned she cursed the town so that whenever a child lost his/her last tooth she would come back to kill that child.The story is chilling and so was the movie. I was a prime target for this movie, not because of the tooth fairy aspect, but because I was terrified of the dark as a child. The spirit of Matilda Dixon has an aversion to light so she can only strike in the shadows of darkness. So light good, darkness bad. Pretty much my core beliefs as a kid.There were a few inconsistencies with the movie but nothing too egregious. The movie had me on edge and the flying female Phantom of the Opera was a good bogeyman. Sometimes a movie is more visceral to some rather than others. "Darkness Falls" really had me.

This is a brilliant film, this is one of those film that really show why some people were scare of the dark as a young kid & why some time the fear of the dark goes to adulthood this is one example of a film that shows that.Inspired by the real dark fairy tale of the tooth fairy from brother grim story's & an age old story of waltzing Matilda known as the tooth fairy who's husband died at sea which gave us the famous song waltzing Matilda a famous Australian song.This story take you in to the heart of the darkness & your inner fears to truly terrify you to the bone.On the DVD is has a true history back ground story of waltzing Matilda which is a pretty sad story but a frightening back ground story for her, but this film is one of the best horror film's I've seen in a while. this is one film I recommend that you wont be disappointed with a lot of people will probably say it was a bad film not worth watching but I recommend you watch it for your self's because the story & back ground really sets the tone for this film's concept & the dark horror theme that really show why you should be scared of the dark.

When film makers need to crank up the sound effects volume to get a physical alarm response from the audience, you know the rest of the production is thin gruel. And this gratingly loud movie marries some of the weakest writing with some truly lazy acting, direction, and producing (for example, some kid who looks ready for his driver's test is cast as a 10-year-old). The very premise - a disfigured old woman who was once kind to children is lynched, curses a town, and comes back from the dead to kill people that happen to see her - is complicated, contrived and derivative of better movies. Don't waste your time unless you're truly wasted.