Starring Anna Paquin, Lena Olin, Iain Glen, Giancarlo Giannini, Fele Martinez, Stephan Enquist
The Basic Plot:
A teenage girl discovers her gloomy new countryside house has a horrifying past that threatens to destroy her family.
The New Movie "Darkness" which stars stars Anna Paquin ("X-Men") as Regina, a teen girl who moves with her family into a creepy old house in the Spanish countryside. The house mysteriously has no known previous owner, and it becomes a mystery how Regina's family managed to buy it in the first place, since there seems to be no record of its construction or existence.
Meanwhile the father becomes more and more erratic in behavious with his mysterious "Illness" and subsequent "fits" which looks mysteriously alot like psychosis. Little brother Paul begins drawing disturbing pictures of dead children and begins coming up with mysterious bruises.
As the movie creeps towards its bloody end, the plot comes out that the ghosts of dead childred are haunting the house and particularly little brother Paul. It seems that a horrifying evil demands to be let lose at the moment of the eclipse and requires the blood of seven children. The eclipse only happens every forty years and 40 years ago one of the children got away, and it turns out to be the dad. Another plot hint is that the child must have their throat slit by one that loves them.
The movie has its chilling and truly frightening moments, especially with the flashes of the CGI creatures crawling on the ceiling, but disapointingly it ends abruptly, giving the assumption that the bad and evil reigned in the end, but with a dozen questions left by the confusing ending.
I would have to say that the ending made the entire movie not worth watching. Everyone in the the theater voiced their dissapointment at the ending, it was a collective WHAT???? how can it end there???? Overall, It lets you down in a steep slide after keeping you on the edge of your seats it suddenly unceremoniously dumps you off with no warning.
The one shining star in the whole film is Anna Paquin who plays a very convincing Regina. If you want a good scare, check it out, but prepare yourself to be disapointed by the ending.
