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Darkness
Directed by
Jaume Balagueró
PG-13
2002
88m
Horror
5.4
5%
31%
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There's something in this house - Something ancient and dark that remains still, hidden and silent. It can only wait, having been concealed in the shadows for years. In fact, its milieu is darkness.
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Cast of Darkness
Anna Paquin
Regina
Lena Olin
Maria
Iain Glen
Mark
Giancarlo Giannini
Albert Rua
Fele Martínez
Carlos
Fermí Reixach
Villalobos
Stephan Enquist
Paul
Francesc Pagès
Driver traffic jam
Craig Stevenson
Electrician
Carlos Castañon
Friend 1
Carles Punyet
Friend 2
Reg Wilson
Librarian
Ferran Lahoz
Taxi driver Regina
Pedro Antonio Segura
Patient traffic jam
Astrid Fenollar
Old woman 1
Robert Forcadell
Passerby in rain
David Martí
Man sleeping on bus
Jaume Balagueró
Director / Writer
Fernando de Felipe
Writer
Allan Baker
Writer
Julio Fernández
Producer
Brian Yuzna
Producer
Darkness Ratings & Reviews
Daniel Gustavsson
October 11, 2024
Cheesy and generic. Also a The Shining ripoff.
jackmeat
April 22, 2025
My quick rating - 5.5/10.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
As in most bad horror flicks, intimations of unspeakable evil are supposed to distract us from the yawning gaps in story logic and character motivation.
AV Club
Nathan Rabin
A plodding, portentous horror thriller in which a spooky child figures prominently and people speak in hushed tones about sinister doings.
Pajiba
Jeremy C. Fox
Darkness is a by-the-numbers haunted house thriller that recalls a number of other films in which a family moves into a mysterious old manse with a sordid past
7M Pictures
Kevin Carr
There's still a lot of European feel to Darkness, which can sometimes be off-putting to American audiences.
TheMovieReport.com
Michael Dequina
Too many plot and character lapses for comfort, even in the traditionally logic-flouting horror genre.
FromTheBalcony
Bill Clark
It's unfortunate that the film is called Darkness because this means it will soon be relegated to the Wal Mart bargain bin next to 2003's stinker Darkness Falls.
Combustible Celluloid
Jeffrey M. Anderson
A good case of style over substance.
Lessons of Darkness
Nick Schager
There's nothing very frightening about this shallow, stupid spookfest.
Movie Metropolis
John J. Puccio
The movie finally degenerates into a hopeless mass of mumbo-jumbo, silliness, and incoherence.
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
The kind of monstrous misfire that makes your mind ache and your teeth grind.
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
We know that the house is haunted, because the family who's just moved in has to deal with the lights always flickering out. They should have called the movie The Fuse Box Horror.
Dallas Morning News
Matt Weitz
Plot elements exist for their own sake, with little or no explanation or relationship to each other, leaving the story such a muddle that it's hard to tell if the actors are doing their jobs.
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Hartlaub
It's unoriginal, frequently incomprehensible and cheaply made, and moviegoers should avoid theaters that show this film just to eliminate the chance of walking in accidentally.
Village Voice
David Blaylock
Moments hint at a metaphoric statement on child abuse, but the film proves mainly to be a commentary on poor electrical wiring.
The Hollywood Reporter
Frank Scheck
Although director Balaguero displays a talent for spooky visuals and creating an atmosphere of quietly simmering tension, his screenplay (co-written by Fernando de Felipe) is a compendium of barely connected scenes that ultimately lapse into incoherence.
Variety
Jonathan Holland
Though pic boasts decent perfs, potent atmospherics and eye-catching visuals, both psychology and plot are bargain-basement.
New York Times
Ned Martel
Offers no inventive takes on its characters, shows no fearsome new way of presenting a haunted house and elicits not one palpitation from audiences paying for a few good jolts.
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
Too mechanical to be either persuasive or scary.
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