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Peter Taylor (Kevin Bacon), his wife Bronny and their two children return to Los Angeles after a fun-filled vacation to the Grand Canyon. Strange events soon start to plague the family, including young son Michael's increasingly erratic behavior. The Taylors learn that Michael brought back some mysterious rocks that he discovered inside a cave. Unfortunately, something followed them home as the clan now find themselves in a battle with a supernatural force that preys on their worst fears.

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The Darkness clumsily relies on an assortment of genre tropes, leaving only the decidedly non-frightening ghost of superior horror films in its wake.

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The Darkness | Rotten Tomatoes (1) Roxana Hadadi Chesapeake Family Magazine Blumhouse Productions releases one of its most forgettable films with The Darkness, a poorly thought out, thoroughly unsurprising horror movie. Rated: 1/5 Aug 2, 2016 Full Review The Darkness | Rotten Tomatoes (2) Steve Davis Austin Chronicle A film woefully lacking in true fright. Rated: 1.5/5 May 19, 2016 Full Review The Darkness | Rotten Tomatoes (3) Scott Tobias Variety McLean must have believed he was making John Cassavetes' "Poltergeist," but this odd fusion of psychodrama and supernatural hokum gets away from him. May 14, 2016 Full Review The Darkness | Rotten Tomatoes (4) Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review Even supernatural horror enthusiasts wont find much to cling to here. Rated: 0.5/4 Apr 15, 2022 Full Review The Darkness | Rotten Tomatoes (5) Jason Adams My New Plaid Pants Just startingly, alarmingly inept Jul 14, 2021 Full Review The Darkness | Rotten Tomatoes (6) Nicholas Bell IONCINEMA.com As uninspired a genre entry as even its generic title suggests, The Darkness can't muster the ability to entertain as a campy misfire or a formulaic thriller. Rated: 1.5/5 Sep 30, 2020 Full Review Read all reviews

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Bahad j I felt like the characters in this movie could feel the happiness and difficulties that they faced in real life. Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 07/14/24 Full Review Gaming U Just so bad. Why mister bacon Rated 0.5/5 Stars • Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/23/24 Full Review Alexandra I fell asleep during this once. Probably because I can't stand stupid movies about dumb children. Not every horror movie has to have a kid in it just for the sake of throwing one into the plot. Rated 0.5/5 Stars • Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/16/24 Full Review kayliana f it's about 53 minutes in until something even drastic happens. most shots are completely random and most of the scenes are so unnecessary. it just felt like the entire movie was just filler scenes with a few important ones. Rated 0.5/5 Stars • Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/24/23 Full Review Yasmim Alana V This movie was one of shittiest movies I have ever watched so far. Rated 0.5/5 Stars • Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 12/19/22 Full Review JLyn P I wish the director and writer could have done a better job. This movie was atrocious; every scary scene escalates from 1 to 10 in seconds, causing it to be confusing instead of spoking you. I was expecting Mr. Bacon to have a stronger character, but he is so weak that he gets lost in the rest of the confusion of the movie. If there were a negative rating, I would give it to this movie. Revise and retry. Rated 0.5/5 Stars • Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 11/25/22 Full Review Read all reviews

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Greg McLean Director Kevin Bacon Peter Taylor Radha Mitchell Bronny Taylor Lucy Fry Stephanie Taylor David Mazouz Michael Taylor Ming-Na Wen Wendy
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Synopsis Peter Taylor (Kevin Bacon), his wife Bronny and their two children return to Los Angeles after a fun-filled vacation to the Grand Canyon. Strange events soon start to plague the family, including young son Michael's increasingly erratic behavior. The Taylors learn that Michael brought back some mysterious rocks that he discovered inside a cave. Unfortunately, something followed them home as the clan now find themselves in a battle with a supernatural force that preys on their worst fears.

Director
Greg McLean

Producer
Jason Blum, Bianca Martino, Matthew Kaplan

Screenwriter
Shayne Armstrong, S.P. Krause, Greg McLean

Distributor
High Top Releasing

Production Co
Blumhouse Productions, Chapter One Films, Emu Creek Pictures

Rating
PG-13 (Language|Brief Sensuality|Some Disturbing Violence|Thematic Elements)

Genre
Horror, Mystery & Thriller

Original Language
English

Release Date (Theaters)
May 13, 2016, Wide

Release Date (Streaming)
Aug 24, 2016

Box Office (Gross USA)
$10.7M

Runtime
1h 33m
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