The Darkness

2016
T
1h 32min

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4,5/10

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Una famiglia risveglia senza saperlo un'antica entità soprannaturale durante una vacanza nel Grand Canyon e deve lottare per sopravvivervi una volta tornata a casa.Una famiglia risveglia senza saperlo un'antica entità soprannaturale durante una vacanza nel Grand Canyon e deve lottare per sopravvivervi una volta tornata a casa.Una famiglia risveglia senza saperlo un'antica entità soprannaturale durante una vacanza nel Grand Canyon e deve lottare per sopravvivervi una volta tornata a casa.

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VALUTAZIONE IMDb

4,5/10

17.346

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Quiz
In one scene, the dad opens up an e-mail from the mom, with a YouTube-looking link (watch?v=FDhoqY1grJY). If you paste that video ID to YouTube, it redirects to this movie's trailer.

Blooper
The Anasazi Indians apparently spoke Tanoan, Acoma, Zuni, and Navajo, all Native American languages. However, they seem to understand the healers talking to them in Spanish, a language that is nothing like their languages.

Citazioni
Stephanie Taylor: We never talk about him, we never talk about how he affects all of us... it's getting creepier and creepier.
Stephanie Taylor: Will you tell Michael to stay out of my room... he keeps leaving dirty hand prints everywhere.

Curiosità sui crediti
The title doesn't appear until nine minutes in to the film.

Versioni alternative
A bleaker alternate ending was shot and test screened, where the Taylor family drive out and dispose the rocks into the ocean. Unbeknownst to his parents and sister, Stephanie, Michael still bears the fifth one, which causes the demon to drive the car off the cliff, striking and killing Peter and Bronny (sending their bodies airborne), and drowning Steph and Michael. The stones are then revealed to have washed up on the shore. When test audiences reacted poorly, the studio mandated a more happier ending to be shot. That aside, the scene can still be viewed on the Blu-ray.

Connessioni
Featured in WatchMojo: Top 10 WORST Movies of 2016 (2017)

Colonne sonore
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Written and Performed by Bruce Bergh
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6/10

Moderately entertaining Poltergeist knock off with an American Indian mythology twist

The Darkness is, in my opinion, a pretty obvious Poltergeist knock off, with an American Indian mythology twist.

This film follows much the same formula made famous by Poltergeist. It makes a few distinctions, by drawing on American Indian mythology but beyond that, its business as usual.

That said, this film is in no way as creepy or frightening, as Poltergeist. The demons, look more like a bunch of bad extras from a cultural festival. Their evil is not really all that evil either. They feel more like bad tenants or squatters, who have personal hygiene issues. Hand washing in particular, is not their thing.

That said, in fairness this is not a bad film. Its moderately entertaining and it has a good cast, including Kevin Bacon, who I have a lot of time for. His performance helps lift this film and is complimented by a capable cast who generally share good chemistry.The family dynamic, in particular, is very believable in a middle aged, kind of yuppie-ish way.

I give The Darkness a six out of ten. Its not exceptional but it is still quite watchable.