The Darkness (2016)
I probably wouldn't have picked this up had i known it was a Blumhouse production because, unfortunately, this is the same watered down piss they constantly churn out.
What made it marginally more watchable than their usual crap was a decent cast - Kevin Bacon, Radha Mitchell and the annoying as ever David Mazouz (Perfect for his role as the possessed brat) - and Greg McLean's direction which managed to maintain a modicum of suspense and interest in what is in all truth a very slight script which is uneventful until the last five minutes horror wise, and we basically get by on Bacon and Mitchell's family squabbles. I'm not even going to go into the way the film looks at autism, bulimia and alcoholism because it simply isn't worth it.
Worst of all it felt a wasted opportunity as there were seeds of a decent movie here with it's story of demons trapped in rocks at the Grand Canyon by the Anasazi. When unlikable oaf Mazouz finds the rocks he takes them home and throughout the course of 90 minutes aside from dirty hand prints on walls not an awful lot happens. The fact said demons were never seen until the final seconds was poor film making as they looked pretty good monsters.
One of those movies where handled by horror lovers rather than merely a production company trying to make cash on the cheap, this could have been something. As it is we have a diluted Blumhouse sort of remake of the vastly superior Mexican movie Here Comes the Devil (2012)
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