Darkness Falls 01/24

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From Hollywood.com

Synopsis: As a young boy, Kyle Walsh claims to have accidentally woken up out of his sleep, just in time to see the Tooth Fairy trying to kill him. From that point forward he is considered crazy by everyone in town--except his childhood sweetheart, Caitlin, and her little brother, Michael. Years later, Kyle must return home to confront his troubled past, and save Caitlin and Michael from an unrelenting evil that has plagued the town of Darkness Falls for over 150 years.

Genre(s):
Horror
Rating: MPAA PG-13

Cast & Role

Chaney Kley-- Kyle
Emma Caulfield -- Caitlin
Lee Cormie -- Michael
Grant Piro -- Larry
Kestie Morassi -- Nurse Lauren
Alannah Oliver -- Kimberly
Joshua Anderson -- Young Kyle

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[John]

I've seen a ton of commercials for this one. I don't really care much for scary movies, so I'll be giving this one a miss, but really, a killer Tooth Fairy?

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I'll probably see this one.
There isn't a lot else out there that I either haven't seen or am interested in seeing.

There are a couple of movies, Chicago being one, that were on limited release and will go into wide release this weekend.

[Wolf]

I had seen the previews but I didn't know it was about some Killer Tooth Fairy. That just sounds funny to me. I'll wait for the video rental.

[Mdrio9]

I think it looks cool. It has Anya from Buffy too.

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I'm hoping this will come to my local theatre this weekend.

[John]

Tooth fairy? 'Darkness Falls' on its face

The only horror here is the writing, acting and directing.

By CRAIG OUTHIER
The Orange County Register
Friday, January 24, 2003

Kyle Walsh (Chaney Kley) is a troubled young man. And then some. Hounded by nightmares of the homicidal tooth fairy demon who killed his mother, Kyle soothes his paranoid anxieties with handfuls of Thorazine and a seemingly inexhaustible supply of flashlights, just in case the photo-sensitive spook should ever come back to finish him off.

By the end of "Darkness Falls," a discount-bin rehash of "Nightmare on Elm Street," you'll feel like popping a few Thorazine, too. Sloppy and inexplicable, with bad acting to rival the chintziest infomercial, this is the kind of all-too-common horror flick that's only blood-curdling in the fact that it was made at all.

Twelve years after his last violent confrontation with the nocturnal boogie-woman – otherwise known as Matilda Dixon, a lonely crone butchered by a rabble of enraged townsfolk over 150 years ago – Kyle reluctantly returns to his childhood home of Darkness Falls to help a young boy (Lee Cormie) fight his own battle with the tooth fairy. "Once you see her, she never leaves," Kyle pronounces. It's a strange rite of puberty, granted, but when you live in a town with a name as idiotically foreboding as Darkness Falls, what do you expect?

Kley, whose only previous feature film experience was a bit role in the Reese Witherspoon comedy ''Legally Blonde" (2001), has all the charisma of a broccoli stalk, but with dialogue this wretched, some of the blame must also be assessed to the filmmakers. To wit:

Frightened Nurse: "Where are the police?"

Kyle: "The police are dead."

Frightened Nurse: "All of them?"

Kyle: "Pretty much."

Amazingly, it took three men – professional screenwriters – to come up with those lines.

As if that wasn't bad enough, first-time director Jonathan Liebesman drags us through an absolutely asinine pursuit sequence plagiarized variously from Alfred Hitchcock's ''Lifeboat" and the recent sci-fi pleaser "Pitch Black," where Kyle and his friends drive around looking for a light source to keep Matilda at bay until daybreak. Two words, people: camp. Fire.

"Darkness Falls" is the latest entertainment product from Revolution Studios, the fledgling distribution outfit founded by former Fox and Disney honcho Joe Roth. Having released such well-received titles as "XXX" and "Punch Drunk Love," the company appears to be profitable, if hardly immune from the occasional turkey infestation ("The Animal"). In the case of "Darkness Falls," the revolution will not be televised, but maybe it should have gone straight to video.

I posted this one, but there are MANY other similar reviews for this movie. It's not going over well...

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Perhaps it'll become a cult failure.