Post #14 - Darkness Falls

Please note this is a complete SPOILER and I am basically relaying how insanely stupid this movie was for your enjoyment. I suggest seeing the movie before reading this if you have any interest in it being surprise.

2003 Release
Directed by: Jonathan Liebesman
Written by: Joe Harris, John Fasano, & James Vanderbilt
Starring: Chaney Kley, Emma Caulfield & Lee Cormie

Now you would think that this would be a movie I would love because its a ghost story and really stupid, but something about it wasn't quite right for me. The story takes place on an island town called Darkness Falls and the opening I did like. We learn from a group of children about the "Tooth Fairy", the ghost of Matilda Dixon, a lovely local widow who often spent time with the children telling them stories and offering up all sort of sweet treats. After a fire in her home severely disfigured her face forcing her to wear a mask made of teeth (um WHAT? How could anyone have any sort of injury that required teeth to cover it?) the children were afraid to spend time with her and she only came out at night. She became an outcast and after a few children go missing Matilda was arrested, stripped of her mask and hung. The missing children soon reappear and the townspeople realize they have made a huge mistake. They cover up the murder and bury Matilda's body. Years later the body went missing after the cemetery was moved and thus began a strange series of events on the island. Reading that I should really have liked this movie, damn it!

The movie opens with with Kyle Walsh (Kley), a local boy who just lost his last baby tooth. Legend among the children requires they must offer their last baby tooth to the Tooth Fairy who will visit them during the night. They dare not look her in the face because doing so will result in their immediate death. Kyle leaves his tooth out for her and hides under the blankets. Soon he hears breathing and scratching noises in his room and knows she's there. He can't resist taking a peak from under the covers and looks directly into the Tooth Fairy's face. He scares her off by shining a flash light in her eyes and runs from the room. Apparently the ghost cannot stand any light so he hides in the bathroom while his mother goes to his room to assure him it's safe. The Tooth Fairy brutally murder his mother and the scene ends with Kyle hiding in the tub of a perfectly white bathroom and the ghost is hiding over the door waiting for him. The movie totally sucks after this scene.

So Kyle is all screwed up obviously from the murder of his mother which he is blamed for. He moves to Las Vegas as an adult, where the lights never go out and always has flashlights on him in fear that the Tooth Fairy will return to finish what was started that night. Kyle returns to Darkness Falls after a friend tells him her brother also claims to have escaped a run in with the Tooth Fairy and is now deathly afraid of the dark. The poor kid is in a loony bin since he refuses to sleep or be in the dark. Kyle knows the kid isn't crazy and wants to protect him from the ghost.

Ok, I just can't do anymore. This movie could have been entertaining but it was so boring. I am not even going to bother going into the ending. It was so boring and lame. The opening was good but the rest was just boring.

SO having said all that, I give this movie:This was so boring.