I watched this film after my sister rented it. I was beginning to like it, but then it turned into modern day crap.
The idea that this monster can't do in ANY light at all, and the fact that it can't attack you unless you have seen it's face, and once you have seen it's face, you can never be in the dark again without it killing you, is a novel and cool idea to me, and it seemed that they were going to make a disturbing film out of it.
But they simply went too many times for the cheapest of all horror scares: the jump scare. Instead of building suspence, they just had this creature jump out and kill some one every 5 seconds, leaving no fear or entertainment to the viewer. Also this all black creature, who you think would be stealthy, is noisier than a train wreck. How can you really fear something if you can hear it shrieking and screaming 70 miles away, giving you ample amount of time to turn on the lights.
I will give credit where it is due, the film does have excellent cinamatography, and really played with the interaction of light and shadow. Stan Winston's puppet in the final sequence was so realistically believeable that I acutally thought it was a person with make-up prosthetics on, until I watched the 'making of' featurette on the DVD.
Darkness Falls is one of those films you should avoid, unless you like movies that turn out really bad at the end.
The idea that this monster can't do in ANY light at all, and the fact that it can't attack you unless you have seen it's face, and once you have seen it's face, you can never be in the dark again without it killing you, is a novel and cool idea to me, and it seemed that they were going to make a disturbing film out of it.
But they simply went too many times for the cheapest of all horror scares: the jump scare. Instead of building suspence, they just had this creature jump out and kill some one every 5 seconds, leaving no fear or entertainment to the viewer. Also this all black creature, who you think would be stealthy, is noisier than a train wreck. How can you really fear something if you can hear it shrieking and screaming 70 miles away, giving you ample amount of time to turn on the lights.
I will give credit where it is due, the film does have excellent cinamatography, and really played with the interaction of light and shadow. Stan Winston's puppet in the final sequence was so realistically believeable that I acutally thought it was a person with make-up prosthetics on, until I watched the 'making of' featurette on the DVD.
Darkness Falls is one of those films you should avoid, unless you like movies that turn out really bad at the end.