This haunted house horror has all the ingredients for a decent supernatural thriller but ends up overcooking all of them.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 30, 2022

Nothing even remotely interesting occurs.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Dec 18, 2019

There's the draw from the audience of potential scares and the good cast, but there's nothing ever delivered to us.

| Apr 29, 2009

This baffling, unintentionally sidesplitting horror show has opened just in time to qualify as the worst film of the year.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 7, 2008

...ultimately comes off as nothing less than a total disaster.

| Original Score: .5/4 | Jun 22, 2007

All of this, of course, would be forgivable if it added up to a scary movie or made even a lick of sense (chunks appear to have been cut out of a longer cut of the film), but Balaguero manages to disappoint on every possible front.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 8, 2007

As in most bad horror flicks, intimations of unspeakable evil are supposed to distract us from the yawning gaps in story logic and character motivation.

| Jan 8, 2007

Even as the darkness closes in, there is never any real sense of dread. The slow-burning terror soon fizzles out, as does the damp squib of an ending.

| Jun 24, 2006

Back to horror school for you, Seor Balaguer.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 1, 2006

A plodding, portentous horror thriller in which a spooky child figures prominently and people speak in hushed tones about sinister doings.

| Sep 26, 2005

Darkness is a by-the-numbers haunted house thriller that recalls a number of other films in which a family moves into a mysterious old manse with a sordid past

| Sep 16, 2005

There's still a lot of European feel to Darkness, which can sometimes be off-putting to American audiences.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 2, 2005

Too many plot and character lapses for comfort, even in the traditionally logic-flouting horror genre.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 7, 2005

It's unfortunate that the film is called Darkness because this means it will soon be relegated to the Wal Mart bargain bin next to 2003's stinker Darkness Falls.

| Original Score: D- | Jun 15, 2005

A good case of style over substance.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 10, 2005

There's nothing very frightening about this shallow, stupid spookfest.

| Original Score: D | May 30, 2005

The movie finally degenerates into a hopeless mass of mumbo-jumbo, silliness, and incoherence.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Apr 22, 2005

However, the fact that the creepy suspenseful atmosphere builds up to a risible climax where nothing remotely scary happens undermines all the good work that has gone before.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 2, 2005

Darkness is a ridiculous film choked with genre clichs and stolen scares, yet there's something genuinely dark and nasty wrapped inside all that ridiculousness...

Full Review | Mar 23, 2005

incomprehensibly opaque and moronically over-projected

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Feb 22, 2005