Goof kids, bad kids, than there is Darkness Falls

[Evan3]

First, let me start out by saying that I did not pay a cent to watch Darkness falls, I feel so thankful since it was good for a total of 2 minutes and 45 second. The "tooth fairy" was the most non scary beast I have ever seen, it sounded like a dying wildcat, and was about as scary as a rubber duck.....
Pitch Black showed great things could be done with a play of light and dark...
Darkness Falls showed that there are movies out there that give American Psycho a run for its money

What I noticed though and to the point, was that the child in this movie was possibly the worst child actor I have ever seen. He lisped, he pretended to be scared and mainly was just a hastle to keep alive. He was very reminiscent to the two annoying kids in 13 Ghosts. Which got me thinking

There are only two things that seem to make children successful on screen in a scary movie.... silence and special effects.

For instance, The kid from The Ring and The Omen were both very fine actors, who didnt have to use words at all to convey things. They were eerily silent and creepy, which allowed them to steal the show.

Special Effects enhances kid's acting as well. Was Linda Blair pre-make up scary at all, much lesss a good actor, all I can remember is a lot of giggling, nothing special. The girl from the Ring, in the few lines she had, were terrible, but boy did those special effects make the movie. Would Hayley Joel Osmet have been as cool without the breath poring from his mouth when a ghost is about???


Look at the kids in Signs, they were neither anything that I cared about, nor was their presence truly needed. They never seemed truly scared to me, nor did I ever fear they were truly in danger.

Anyone else care to weigh in???

[Dunners]

head nothing but s**t from this turd.

[Shounen Kakumei Pikachu]

Well, I still have yet to see Darkness Falls.......and the kid in The Ring had too much of an inexplicable case of Iseedeadpeopleitis.  And they went far overboard with the build-up symptoms (which also blew a key scene).  Goes to show you that Americans can't even remake horror movies well....

[Skaboi]

Wait.  Did I just hear something bad about American Psycho????  A bad comment!?  NOOOO!

[systemcr4sh]

Oh god I rented this one to see what it was like. In the beginning there was a decent "jump" scene that almost got me making me thing "hey maybe its ok" and then it went downhill from there. The tooth fairy looks ok when its face is revealed near the end. The whole movie looks HEAVILY edited down for time or for content. This results in scenes like when the dude is standing on the porch of a bar and someone pushes him. Cut to them rolling down a extremely steep hill, which has lots of trees. What do they build bars on the top of tall hills in the middle of the woods now??

[Andrew Crow]

Evan, I'm still perplexed as to your unnecessary hatred of the extreme amounts of awesomeness that is AMERICAN PSYCHO. Is it just because you don't get that it's a comedy?

[Evan3]

Andrew, If only someone told me it was to be a comedy... unforutunately, I sat and watched what is definitely tied for worst movie ever drek.. I hated it... and the ending made it so that I had watched it for nothing... I could have made it through all the plot holes if only the acting had been at least decent.

I have decided American Psycho is tied with Darkness Falls as worst movie ever,.