The Darkness

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The Darkness

PG-13,

2016,

1h 33m,

Horror/

Mystery & Thriller

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Peter Taylor (Kevin Bacon), his wife Bronny and their two children return to Los Angeles after a fun-filled vacation to the Grand Canyon. Strange events soon start to plague the family, including young son Michael's increasingly erratic behavior. The Taylors learn that Michael brought back some mysterious rocks that he discovered inside a cave. Unfortunately, something followed them home as the clan now find themselves in a battle with a supernatural force that preys on their worst fears.

Critics Consensus

The Darkness clumsily relies on an assortment of genre tropes, leaving only the decidedly non-frightening ghost of superior horror films in its wake.

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Roxana Hadadi

Chesapeake Family Magazine

Aug 2, 2016

1/5

Blumhouse Productions releases one of its most forgettable films with The Darkness, a poorly thought out, thoroughly unsurprising horror movie.

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Steve Davis

Austin Chronicle

May 19, 2016

1.5/5

A film woefully lacking in true fright.

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Scott Tobias

Variety

May 14, 2016

McLean must have believed he was making John Cassavetes' "Poltergeist," but this odd fusion of psychodrama and supernatural hokum gets away from him.

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

Apr 15, 2022

0.5/4

Even supernatural horror enthusiasts wont find much to cling to here.

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Jason Adams

My New Plaid Pants

Jul 14, 2021

Just startingly, alarmingly inept

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Nicholas Bell

IONCINEMA.com

Sep 30, 2020

1.5/5

As uninspired a genre entry as even its generic title suggests, The Darkness can't muster the ability to entertain as a campy misfire or a formulaic thriller.

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Ron W

Nov 28, 2018

It was written by a four year old

Theodore R

Nov 17, 2018

Before Bruce Wayne moved to Gotham he went on a family holiday to the Grand Canyon with Kevin Bacon, fell into a cavern, pocketed some ancient stones, went back home and unleashed all kinds of spooky goings on. That's basically it. It was very average , the usual ancient curse and spooky child kind of story with a few jump scares but it wasn't anything memorable.

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George S

Oct 8, 2018

This movie had me shook!

Draco G

Apr 14, 2018

This movie was predictable, completely by the numbers and offered nothing new to the scary movie, "people, or houses, get possessed by demons" genre of movie, but I have to admit, I liked it slightly better than I thought I would. This was just a mindless possession movie, but for what it was, it wasn't all horrible.

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Rey R

Apr 2, 2018

I thought this was a good variety of the take-it-home variety.

Leia W

Feb 8, 2018

Don't believe the haters! Bacon is excellent in this movie, and if you like classic horror stories, this is the movie for you!

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Peter Taylor

Radha Mitchell

Bronny Taylor

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Synopsis

Peter Taylor (Kevin Bacon), his wife Bronny and their two children return to Los Angeles after a fun-filled vacation to the Grand Canyon. Strange events soon start to plague the family, including young son Michael's increasingly erratic behavior. The Taylors learn that Michael brought back some mysterious rocks that he discovered inside a cave. Unfortunately, something followed them home as the clan now find themselves in a battle with a supernatural force that preys on their worst fears.

Director: Greg McLean
Producer: Jason Blum, Bianca Martino, Matthew Kaplan
Screenwriter: Shayne Armstrong, S.P. Krause, Greg McLean
Distributor: High Top Releasing
Production Co: Blumhouse Productions, Chapter One Films, Emu Creek Pictures
Rating: PG-13 (Language|Brief Sensuality|Some Disturbing Violence|Thematic Elements)
Genre: Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): May 13, 2016, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 24, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $10.7M
Runtime: 1h 33m

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