Darkness Falls (2003)

Regisseur:

Jonathan Liebesman

Drehbuchautoren (WGA):

Joe Harris (story)
John Fasano (screenplay) ...

Premierendatum:

24. Januar 2003 (USA)

Genre:

Horror | Thriller

Werbezeile:

Every Legend Has Its Dark Side.

Plot:

A vengeful spirit has taken the form of the Tooth Fairy to exact vengeance on the town that lynched her 150 years earlier. Her only opposition is the only child, now grown up, who has survived her before.

Plot Keywords:

Port Fairy | Ghost | Lighthouse | Spiral Staircase | Tooth Fairy

Filmpreise:

1 win & 2 nominations

Nutzerkommentare:

a cheesy slasher flick disguised as a horror film

Besetzung

Chaney Kley	...	Kyle Walsh
Emma Caulfield	...	Caitlin Greene
Lee Cormie	...	Michael Greene
Grant Piro	...	Larry Fleishman
Sullivan Stapleton	...	Officer Matt Henry
Steve Mouzakis	...	Dr. Peter Murphy
Peter Curtin	...	Dr. Travis
Kestie Morassi	...	Nurse Lauren
Jenny Lovell	...	Nurse Alexandra
John Stanton	...	Captain Thomas Henry
Angus Sampson	...	Raymond 'Ray' Winchester (as Angus Murray Lincoln Sampson)
Charlotte Rees	...	Marie Winchester
Joshua Anderson	...	Young Kyle Walsh
Emily Browning	...	Young Caitlin Greene
Rebecca McCauley	...	Margaret Walsh (Kyle's Mom)

Alternativ:

Don't Peek (USA) (working title)
The Ghost of Matilda Dixon (USA) (working title)
The Tooth Fairy: The Ghost of Matilda Dixon (USA) (working title)
Tooth Fairy (USA) (working title)
Fluch von Darkness Falls, Der (Österreich) (Deutschland) [de]
Legende von Darkness Falls, Die (Deutschland) [de]

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for terror and horror images, and brief language.

Länge:

86 Min

Produktionsland:

USA | Australia

Sprache:

Englisch

Farbe:

Farbe

Seitenverhältnis:

2.35 : 1

Tonverfahren:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Altersfreigabe:

Portugal:M/16 | Iceland:16 | Malaysia:18SG | Argentina:16 | Australia:M | Brazil:14 | Canada:14A | France:-12 | Germany:16 | Hong Kong:IIB | Ireland:15PG (original rating) | Ireland:15 (video rating) | Netherlands:16 | New Zealand:M | Norway:15 | Peru:14 | Philippines:PG-13 | Singapore:PG | South Korea:12 | Spain:13 | Sweden:15 | UK:15 | USA:PG-13

Drehorte:

Australia

Firma:

Revolution Studios

Dies und das:

The sound of Matilda Dixon's wailing throughout the film is really the sound of an elderly woman's groaning in bed. The sound was both sped up in the parts where Matilda screams, and slowed down in the places where she gurgles and breathes heavily.

Pannen:

Abfolgefehler: At the beginning of the film, young Kyle has two small (unexplained) scratches on the upper part of his left cheek which appear to be about an inch and a half at most. The next morning, a close-up of Kyle shows two very large (approx. 4"-5") slashes on the upper and lower portion of his cheek, as well as what may be a third across his left collar bone. In the preceding and subsequent shots, Kyle is seen with the original small scratches.

Dialogzitate:

Caitlin: I can't believe you came.
Kyle: That makes two of us.

Bezüge zu anderen Titeln:

Verweis/Anspielung/Erwähnung in Down to the Bone: Anatomy of a Prequel (2007) (V)

Soundtrack:

Look Out Below

a cheesy slasher flick disguised as a horror film

The first 5 minutes started off scary with the boy in the dark, and the visit from the girl next door. The use of shadows made it creepy and when his mom is grabbed, that's really scary.

But, it goes down hill after that. An unique idea gets turned into a boring slasher flick. It's PG-13, and there isn't a lot of blood, so that takes a lot away. There were way too many plot holes. Like if Kyle knew he wasn't crazy, then why was he taking the anti-psychotics. And plus, it makes no sense that he was able to never spend any time in the dark for years. But, when he goes back to his hometown, he's put in all these situations with no light. And the theme, stay in the light, is so old. The writers went the easy way out since they couldn't come up with anything better. And how does Kyle look so kept together since he's been in a psych ward for years. Yet he looks like he stepped off the cover of GQ.

FINAL VERDICT: Weak writing. No gore. Overall lame.