Jeffrey Young DARKNESS FALLS in my opinion was a good horror movie and if I were to rate it on the traditional Hollywood four star system, I would award it at least two (2) stars which means, fair, or, worth a look. But I would feel more comfortable giving it 2.5 stars which means, definitely worth your time watching. I would be tempted to award 3 stars but am not sure I could fully defend it. Parts of the movie are worth 3 stars.Much of the movie's storyline is already known or already reviewed so you already have your opinion. The movie was either liked or disliked with little in-between which explains the average rating of 5.0.My unique take on the movie is the emphasis on light and flashlights to defend against the demonic revenant. Hollywood has long relied on what I term, "fear props", to heighten the suspense, scare, and shock factors of horror films. It's not just the prop itself, it's what's done with it that renders the spooky effect.In Hollywood suspense, thriller, fright, and horror movies, the run-of-the-mill flashlight frequently shows up. Much of the scare factor relies on atmosphere, darkness, and noir effects, as was expertly depicted in HALLOWEEN (1978). As a result, actors have to use some means of illumination, not just to see, but to give illumination to the set. This is where the flashlight comes in. In fright and horror movies which take place in the past, hand-held candles were used and the viewer noticed that just one candle seemed to light up an entire room; of course it was a special effect. The Hollywood flashlight fear prop accomplished its fear role by being fragile. In many fright and horror movies, the actor seems to hold an especially fragile flashlight. Just at the wrong moment the actor 'drops' his/her flashlight out of fear or stress and it breaks. Almost all real flashlights can survive a drop even on to a hard surface. Or, at the wrong moment the flashlight's beam goes out and the actor/actress hurriedly whacks it on the palm of their hand while the monster or the killer sneaks up behind them.Other fear props: 1) Cellphone. The actor or actors' cell phones never work when it's supposed to. Either the actor drops the cell phone and it breaks apart into pieces. Best yet, when trying to hide from the monster or the killer, the actor victim's cell phone goes off, revealing their hiding location. 2) Toys. The creepy toy monkey banging his cymbals is a classic Hollywood fear prop. 3) Car keys. Hollywood likes to show that all women have a zillion keys on their car key chain. When running away from the monster or the killer (usually it's a human killer), the actress tries to either unlock the car door or find the key for the ignition. Because she's panicking and there's too many keys on her key chain, she fumbles and can't find it, letting the killer catch up to her. Sometimes the actress will 'drop' her overloaded key chain in her panic.DARKNESS FALLS exploited the flashlight fear prop to the fullest. I don't know about other viewers, but this movie encouraged me to keep purchasing quality, durable flashlights. So now I have a small collection of AA and AAA battery LED flashlights. I don't have a 50-gallon plastic barrel full of flashlights like the movie character but I own enough to place a flashlight in every conceivable location where I might need it: car, business bag, nightstand, living room, work desk, autumn and winter jackets. Suffice to say, I believe there's a flashlight within arm's reach everywhere I am. Who knows when the electricity will fail, right? Other than that I have used my flashlight at work many times, especially when I work at night. It's not necessary to own as many flashlights as I do but the average person should own at least two, quality flashlights. Buy those that use AA batteries which are more common and easier to find and cheaper to buy. Second choice is AAA flashlights. Some people still prefer a big, traditional D battery flashlight but for practical purposes you really don't need to. Today's AA LED flashlights put out a lot of light, even some powerful AAA flashlights.

Some Guy Name I only watched this because the mere concept made me laugh, and because I felt like watching a horror movie that wouldn't leave me all depressed like the good ones usually do. I got exactly what I wanted that day, so maybe this review isn't completely objective; and truth to be told, what this movie does best is delivering simple jump-scares of the kind we know. But I still thought the idea of an evil tooth fairy was well executed, and like the top reviewers state, it really isn't THAT bad. I gotta warn you, though, this movie is extremely 90s. It's right down from the styling to the sound effects to the coked up shifting camera angles, and lets not forget the Beverly Hills-style acting. I especially loved it when our troubled hero, Kyle, lines up his medicine for various mental illnesses on the table, and swallows them to a loudly blasting grunge-soundtrack, while the camera goes crazy. The only way this could've been less subtle, is if a TV screen had shown a Kurt Cobain-lookalike shoot himself in the background. The camera also later pans to show that Kyle has dedicated an entire wall to drawings of the mask the tooth fairy was wearing when he first saw it - in case you were still in doubt that our protagonist is haunted and has got them feels, maaaan. The amateurish feeling is quite sad, because this movie has some genuinely scary things to offer - it's sound effects from the fairy is quite good, some mix between that girl from The Grudge and a particularly ravenous witch. It also mostly knows what it has to offer,(action, mysterious creature and scares) and I thought it had great timing when it came to scares. It also didn't waste it's time in it's 80 minute runtime*coughtwohourmodernmoviescough*.The movie only goes truly flaccid and unintentionally hilarious, when it breaks from it's ghost- story mold at the middle, and becomes more like an Alien-style creature feature. The witch still screams and flies around, but you aren't scared of her anymore, because of the addition of what I think were actual assault rifles. There's a reason scary dead women usually chooses to haunt naive young people in old mansions, and not some action hero like Kyle, who stands ready to protect "his girl" with bullets, red necks and access to stuff like light houses. The final nail in the coffin was the inclusion of a kid, because we know they won't die, so you'd wish he wasn't included at all. That's not to say that this movie isn't entertaining. It IS. But be prepared for the gradual shift from ghost story to action flick. Even the hard rock ending song doesn't match the foreboring music at the beginning of this movie.

sauron2637 The plot of this movie immediately caught my attention. Sadly the execution of Darkness Falls had some major flaws that ruined most of the film for me. While the opening scene and first encounter with the dark entity was interesting and unnerving. Further scenes failed to be scary at all. Also I found the monster's looks dull and ridiculous.Acting was meh, atmosphere was meh, everything was meh.

Raul Faust At first, this film already deserves some applause, since it's a horror production released after 2000 WITHOUT a using a haunted House as its main premise, so it has my considerations for being, at least, original. The Tooth Fairy tale is surely very childish and hard to imagine as an horror story, but this film almost makes it frightening and credible. I mean, I'm an adult and this may sound even cheesy at times, but kids will probably be afraid to sleep after giving it a chance. Albeit "Darkness Falls" tries to convince as a serious movie sometimes, at least it admits it doesn't have enough entertaining material to extend it's length, editing the whole thing into short 86 minutes, which is very well thought. Ten minutes longer would make it feel tiresome, believe me. Sadly, it doesn't avoid the horror cliché of the drawer child, but it's forgiven, considering it avoided many others. PS: I just found out Chaney Kley passed away some years after this movie was produced, and it is really curious that he died of sleep apnea, which is similar to his character's trouble in the picture. Really such a shame.