The product of Jeepers Creepers combined with Dead Silence: It’s an old wives tale that come back for revenge or something equally vague and unexplained. Introducing the Darkness Falls Movie Review brought to you by your friends at Things I Fear who inexplicably decided to watch this.
The movie starts off with a love story about two young pups who bond over a missing tooth and a school dance. Prior to this, there is a backstory about kids losing teeth and then being attacked by a mysterious woman. That plot is almost completely abandoned as the woman attacks people regardless of their teeth or lack thereof. Suddenly it’s revealed that the woman, aptly dubbed the Tooth Fairy, cannot attack you if there is any light involved. This could not be more false. Well, sometimes it’s true. It’s frustrating.
So the movie awkwardly progresses with some really random events. Which includes a bar fight with a guy who never left town, the dad from Honey I Shrunk the Kids hugging a woman, the elevator working despite a power outage, and a machine incorrectly described as a sensory deprivation tank.
The climax of the movie features some of the more dramatic plot holes. Also, the child looks like a cross between the kid from Home Alone and the Sixth Sense. Speaking of which, the Toothy Fairy looks like The Phantom of the Opera. Then becomes Freddy. Spooky.
The ending of the movie is so abrupt that it’s almost like they suddenly didn’t want to make it anymore and wanted it to be over just like the audience. Which really is unfair for anyone watching it and expecting something good to happen at the very end. But it really is an unbelievably abrupt ending. It would be like me ending this Darkness Falls Movie Review mid sente-
