The Darkness

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The Darkness

PG-13

2016

1h 33m

Horror

Mystery & Thriller

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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.

Critics Consensus

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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Roxana Hadadi

Chesapeake Family Magazine

08/02/2016

1/5

Blumhouse Productions releases one of its most forgettable films with The Darkness, a poorly thought out, thoroughly unsurprising horror movie.

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Steve Davis

Austin Chronicle

05/19/2016

1.5/5

A film woefully lacking in true fright.

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Scott Tobias

Variety

05/14/2016

McLean must have believed he was making John Cassavetes' "Poltergeist," but this odd fusion of psychodrama and supernatural hokum gets away from him.

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

04/15/2022

0.5/4

Even supernatural horror enthusiasts wont find much to cling to here.

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Jason Adams

My New Plaid Pants

07/14/2021

Just startingly, alarmingly inept

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Nicholas Bell

IONCINEMA.com

09/30/2020

1.5/5

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.

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prawnda S

@RT72497680 Mar 5

basically every post on this entire website has a 5 star rating from "Stephen C". it's obviously a bot because it writes the same formulaic nonsense about the runtime and adds a bunch of exclamation points in every single review. i have reported it many times for many years with zero results, and it's become obscenely obvious that this is some kind of extremely cheap effort on the company's behalf to further inflate ratings past their inane system of "50% means you recommend it!". get your f*****g s**t together, rotten tomatoes. nobody trusts these ratings, everyone cross references them with other sites.

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Scarlet M

@RT73605892 Dec 30

Started off ok, but got dumber and dumber as it went along, i fast forwarded to the end, predictable, been done a gazillion times before. It was well acted and I like Kevin Bacon but this was not his finest hour.

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Liam D

@RT29053422 11/27/2024

I haven’t even watched this movie and all I’m gonna say is how the hell did a movie with Kevin bacon get 3%

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Bahad j

@RT27093708 07/14/2024

I felt like the characters in this movie could feel the happiness and difficulties that they faced in real life.

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Gaming U

@RT92267917 02/23/2024

Just so bad. Why mister bacon

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Alexandra

@AlexandraClaire1992 02/16/2024

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.

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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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