This movie about a dead psychotic tooth fairy is surprisingly ordinary. It's Alien-like plot consists of the tooth fairy carefully tracking down and killing everyone in her path to kill a kid. You'd think she would be satisfied after killing three dozen people to get to the kid, but even then she's not happy. Her pathological, inhuman attention to detail kind of reminds me of Martha Stewart. Oh, and she also wears a porcelain mask because she was burned really bad when she was alive once, and the light hurts her face. Well, I'm here to say that sunlight doesn't hurt burn victims, so right there is one of the dumbest premises in the whole film. She isn't even remotely scary.
The producer spared no expense for a great script. The movie's eighteen-year-old high school scriptwriter wrote dialog such as this:
Shrill female actress: "Call the cops!" Dopey male actor: "They're dead." Shrill female actress (incredulously): "All of them?" Dopey male actor: "Pretty much."
So what happens at the end? Well, like every other horror and action movie over the last twenty years, the end takes place in a warehouse-like setting, in this case a lighthouse, which looks like a warehouse on the inside.
The main character, Dumbo the action hero, sets his arm on fire and uses the light from his burning arm to hurt her face. She's impervious to the twelve thousand bullets fired at her throughout the film, but her weakness is fire. That and teeth. Okaaaaaay.
Why watch Darkness Falls when you can watch the movies that inspired it: Alien and Pitch Black. There's nothing this movie has that wasn't already done a hundred times better.
The producer spared no expense for a great script. The movie's eighteen-year-old high school scriptwriter wrote dialog such as this:
Shrill female actress: "Call the cops!" Dopey male actor: "They're dead." Shrill female actress (incredulously): "All of them?" Dopey male actor: "Pretty much."
So what happens at the end? Well, like every other horror and action movie over the last twenty years, the end takes place in a warehouse-like setting, in this case a lighthouse, which looks like a warehouse on the inside.
The main character, Dumbo the action hero, sets his arm on fire and uses the light from his burning arm to hurt her face. She's impervious to the twelve thousand bullets fired at her throughout the film, but her weakness is fire. That and teeth. Okaaaaaay.
Why watch Darkness Falls when you can watch the movies that inspired it: Alien and Pitch Black. There's nothing this movie has that wasn't already done a hundred times better.