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Darkness
List Price: $19.99
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$17.99
on 12-7-2008
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Actors: Anna Paquin, Lena Olin, Iain Glen, Giancarlo Giannini, Fele Martínez
Directors: Jaume Balagueró
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Language: English
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number of discs: 1
Rating: 
Studio: Dimension
DVD Release Date: April 26, 2005
Run Time: 88 minutes
Average Customer Review:
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Reader Reviews
'Darkness' is a Spanish film made back in 2002, with the cast -- Anna Paquin, Lena Olin, Iain Glen, Fele Martinez, and Giancarlo Giannini. The Spanish director Jaume Balaguero may be remembered with his previous film 'The Nameless' of which critical success led to the production of this film. THE STORY is about an American girl Regina (Paquin), whose family moved to the suburb of a certain city in Spain. Her father (Glen) experienced nervous breakdown leading a busy life in America, and his wife (Olin) thought it best for him and the entire family to leave anything behind, and come to this quiet place with two children, Regina and her younger brother Paul (Stephen Enquist). But one day, amid a heavy traffic jam, Regina's father starts to suffer from the disease again. And at the same time things begin to get weird. Paul starts to think someone is in the house while his daddy, once back from hospital, again acts strangely ... this time, perhaps not because of the disease. And Regina's grandfather (Giannini) seems to know something about the gloomy house where she lives, or something more. FIRST, THE BEST THING ABOUT THE FILM is its photography by Xavi Gimenez (see the unique thriller 'Intacto'). In spite of confusing script, the cinematography of 'Darkness' stands on its own, always conveying the spooky atmosphere, created with the subtle and effective contrast between light and darkness. It is very good to convince you of the presence of the evil lurking behind the curtain. The film's plot is good in the first half, but an unlucky coincidence does not help. As you know, the US viewers have already seen a horror film 'Darkness Falls' with which 'Darkness' shares the universal fear coming from darkess. And the origin of the darkness (or its fear) differs, the secrets of 'Darkess' is as predictable as those of the other film, and this makes a bad sign from the beginning. And in the second half, the film, trying to surprise us more, actually becomes confusing, fraught with heavy-handed symbolism which is not difficult to interpret if you just notice they are there. Moreover, at least to the horror fans like me, the scares themselves are not effectively shown, with now cliched tricks, and the final chapter is simply unbelievable, or too 'good' (or bad) to be true. But the most regrettable thing about 'Darkness' is the acting, which are, quite frankly, below average. Overacting all around, from Olin and Glen in particular, the film is filled with those characters yelling and shouting, all of whom you wish were gone. I finally thought -- Please, please, stop them. Atomospheric 'Darkness' is shot with considerable visual skills, but lacks the credible acting of Nicole Kidman in 'The Others.' If you like something beautiful and different -- whatever the meaning of difference might be, this may be the one for you. Otherwise, see 'The Others' again.
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