Movie Reviews: 'Darkness Falls'
The one brand-new movie being released this weekend is the horror film Darkness Falls. Critics, who are generally a superfluous lot when it comes to such films, predictably are trashing it. "About as scary as a ride on a minor roller coaster," comments Stephen Holden in the New York Times. "Unimpressive even by January standards," writes Elizabeth Weitzman in the New York Daily News. "Its plot makes decreasing sense even by the low standards of B horror flicks," sniffs Jonathan Foreman in the New York Post."Darkness falls. And never gets up," quips Rick Groen in the Toronto Globe & Mail. And then there are the critics who really detest this movie, like John Petrakis of the Chicago Tribune, who launches his review this way: "Have you ever wondered why critics will sometimes give a film they heartily dislike as much as one star? It's so there is room left in the depths of the ratings netherworld for an abomination like Darkness Falls, a lamebrained attempt at horror that is just a derivative pastiche of ideas lifted from other bad films." |
