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List Price: $14.94 | | Label: Sony Pictures
Salesrank: 19848
Released: September 2, 2003 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Kyle Walsh (Chaney Kley) must return home to confront his troubled past and save his childhood sweetheart Caitlin (Emma Caulfied), and her younger brother (Lee Cormie), from an unrelenting evil that has plagued the town of Darkness Falls for more than one hundred and fifty years.
Description of Darkness Falls (Special Edition):
Humanity's fear of the dark provides Darkness Falls with some anxiety and fuels some jolts of fear from things popping out of nowhere. A kindly woman, who used to give children gold coins in exchange for their lost baby teeth, was hanged for a murder she didn't commit; in her last moments she laid a curse on the town (which has the unlikely name of Darkness Falls). So over the years the ghost of this woman has murdered various children because they saw her when she came to collect their teeth. In the present day, a boy who evaded her clutches returns to town as an adult in order to help the young brother of his childhood sweetheart--and from there this incoherent, inane movie is one long chase sequence without a glimmer of imagination or intelligence. --Bret Fetzer
Darkness Falls (Special Edition) Reviews:
Have to throw in my lot with those that really liked it... 
2009-10-23 - Wow...there's a whole lotta hatin' goin' on in THIS place, I see...
Well, while the majority of you are sharpening your pitchforks and lighting your torches, I'll take advantage of the opportunity to put MY two cents in on this little flick.
I loved this movie. I thought the concept was good (I mean, why do we assume the tooth fairy looks like Tinkerbell and is just inherently friendly? Why is it tough to believe that there may be a darker legend behind her like there is in most fairy tales? Why is it easy to accept an undead revenant with a hockey mask haunts a summer camp, but not the idea that there is a supernatural being that must conform to a set of celestial rules?), and the cinematography was positively chilling (the scene near the beginning in the hallway outside the safety of the bright bathroom is the stuff of Lovecraftian nightmares).
Preying on our inherent fear of the dark was a masterstroke...and I've read the complaints about how light was her downfall, but lightning didn't bother her...well, why do we swallow that in some vampire movies crosses ward away the villains, but in others they can use them as toothpicks?
Add to that element the use of the tooth fairy, as aforementioned a friendly and "safe" element of almost all of our childhoods, weaving her legends of how you must be asleep and never see her into something sinister, and you have a very scary movie.
I look at any horror film in the respect of 'does it scare me? Does it touch some psychological button that, in my suspension of disbelief that I carry into watching ANY film, takes me back to my childhood, lying there in the darkness, seeing the shadows from the streetlight and wondering just what those little noises were that you always hear in a quiet house?'...it seems that most of the reviewers here rely on what is shown on the screen being solely responsible for making you afraid...and to an extent, I believe that also, but in my opinion if a film has an element that reaches into you and finds that one spot to place a cold hand and remind you that just maybe there's more out there in the dark than you know about, then it's done it's job.
Like any movie, Darkness Falls has it's flaws...but it found that child in the dark that's still somewhere in me...maybe if any of you readers out there still keep that same child somewhere in your psyche, you'll enjoy this movie as much as I did.
Scared Stiff!
2009-07-13 - Saw the movie, owned the movie, lost the movie. I had to buy it again but it was worth it. Now its a part of my collection. The introduction alone will have you bite all ten finger nails just before you start on the toes. Losing your last tooth can be horrifying after watching this movie. I think i have developed a phobia. Now i sleep with a flashlight
You will pay for tooth decay 
2009-06-16 - No molar is safe. The tooth fairy is coming for your soul...BWAHAHAHAH!!!! Aquafresh will not save you!
Yeah, this is as ridiculous as it sounds. A demonic creature comes to collect its prize while the youth are sleeping. But this demented fairy gets infuriated when it finds out that little kids don't have grillz?!? The little buggers keep sticking rotten little baby teeth under their pillow, which have no trade in value at the pawn shop. WTF?
I kept expecting this to be a movie about bad dreams or mentally deranged children or something. But no, it really is about a tooth fairy (sigh). In all fairness, this was the best tooth fairy movie I have ever seen.
A NICE LITTLE CREEPER 
2009-05-18 - If you're looking for lotsa' gore, gratuitous sex scenes, and the usual cliches that seem to drive the so-called plots of most horror movies don't bother watching DARKNESS FALLS. There are some nice thrills, plenty of atmosphere, and some genuinely decent acting by the leads. Liebesman did a good job pacing the movie as well. It's certainly not in the league of CARRIE, HOLLOWEEN, or THE EXORCIST, but it's far from boring.
Dullness Falls...
2009-04-22 - I don't know what it is that drives hollywood to crank out movies like this. Well, okay, it has something to do w/ corporations making zillions of dollars on whatever they decide we "must" see, but I digress. DARKNESS FALLS is another generic spooker that starts out fairly cool, then descends quickly into re-tread territory. It could have been a very original ghost story w/ a terrifying ghoul. Instead, it's a kid-vid w/ a few "bad" words and some minor blood tossed in. I have seen some well-made PG-13 movies (The Ring, The Grudge, Disturbia, etc.). DARKNESS FALLS was a bland movie that I wanted to enjoy. Alas, I didn't...
