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The Darkness

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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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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. Go to Full Review Steve Davis Austin Chronicle 05/19/2016
1.5/5
A film woefully lacking in true fright. Go to Full Review 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. Go to Full Review Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review 04/15/2022
0.5/4
Even supernatural horror enthusiasts wont find much to cling to here. Go to Full Review Jason Adams My New Plaid Pants 07/14/2021
Just startingly, alarmingly inept Go to Full Review 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. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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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. See more 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. See more 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% See more 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. See more Gaming U @RT92267917 02/23/2024 Just so bad. Why mister bacon See more 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. See more 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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