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A family moves
into a house and the father in the family quickly
gets his illness back after many years of treatment. When Paul,
the boy in the family, starts waking up with bruises, his sister
Regina starts suspecting that something's not right. With a very
bad tempered father, an ignorant mother and a brother who can hardly
speak as he's so afraid, Regina has to try to convince her family
that something is wrong and that they have to get out of the house.
But as Regina's mother refuses to believe that it's happening it
gets harder and harder for Regina to escape the darkness...
I knew from the moment I started watching this that it was going
to be another Spanish success. Darkness is a heartpounding horrormovie
which now has the record for times making me jump up from my seat.
I was scared to death during most of the movie, and considering that
I watched it at 3 o'clock in the morning in a very dark room,
I think I had my reasons. However, while Darkness is yet another
brilliant horrormovie from Spain, this wasn’t quite as original as
Spanish horrormovies usually are. This is pretty much a ghost version
of "7 Days To Live", which in itself rips off "The Shining"
quite
a lot. I loved both of those movies so obviously I liked this very
much aswell, too bad that movies like this don't get onto cinemas.
When I read on
the box that Fele Martínez was in this I was terrified
that this might turn out to be a terrible movie after all as he is
certainly not one of my favourite Spanish actors. Fele was good in
'El Arte De Morir' but I just lost all respect for him when I saw him
in the awful teen slasher "Tuno Negro (aka Black Serenade)". He
was
pretty good in this movie aswell, but it felt as if they just used
him because he's a famous actor in Spain, I mean, what was the point
in Rebecca having a Spanish boyfriend called Carlos? The other
actors are brilliant though, and I have to say, an excellent
performance from little Stephan Enquist who debuts in this movie.
The directing
is simply amazing, like always when you talk about
Spanish film. But what makes this directing so special is that it
was actually directed by Jaume Balagueró himself. For you who
doesn't know who Jaume is, he directed the very intense horror-
thriller "Los Sin Nombre" aswell as the stunning and bizarre short
movies "Alicia" and "Días Sin Luz". It's amazing
how good he
makes this movie look, by just using a couple of simple effects
we are presented with an intense and heartpounding thriller that
can cause a heartattack for just about anyone.
I'm usually not
too fond of Fantastic Factory's movies as they
released some really bad ones like "Arachnid" and "Faust",
but
after I watched "Dagon" my opinions on Fantastic Factory changed
completely. If you liked "7 Days To Live", "Los Sin Nombre"
or
"The Others", I highly suspect that you will love this. Just don't
close your eyes no matter how scary it is cause you will miss out
on so much for every second you hide behind your pillow. The
only reason why I didn't give this five stars was because I felt
as if I had seen it before. Oh and one last thing, the ending
was totally awesome!
A bloody hand and a lot of creepy rotten faces is all we get.
Together with the directing this works perfectly. There is some
piano music and some strings and that's really all a horrormovie
like this needs so I really liked the soundtrack in this.
A beautifully directed, very well made and totally creepy Spanish
horrormovie that creeps up under your skin. I think this is one
for everyone. The scenery was the only thing bothering me, all
we really ever saw was scenes from inside or right outside the
house. The fact that it's quite unoriginal didn't disturb me
at all as there are some creative things that this movie has
going for it. Go find a copy of this creepy horrormovie right
this instance and you can thank me afterwards...
Review By: AnthroFred
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