One young boy, Kyle, escaped her clutches but his mother was brutally killed. Before she died she cursed the town and her vengeful spirit waits to pounce on any who see her. When two of the kids go missing, Matilda, dubbed the Tooth Fairy, is blamed and murdered by a frenzied mob. For a really scary Tooth Fairy, try Tom Noonan in Michael Mann's "Manhunter."ġ50-years ago, in the town of Darkness Falls, a kindly old woman named Matilda Dixon would collect the lost baby teeth of the town's children and, in exchange, give each a gold coin. "Darkness Falls" is a competently made, if not very effective, horror yarn. Cinematographer Dan Lausten ("Brotherhood of the Wolf") keeps the action visible in challenging lighting situations, including Stan Winston's ("Jurassic Park") Tooth Fairy, who ostensibly cannot enter the light. Screenwriters John Fasano and Joe Harris meld the "Blair Witch" with "Pitch Black" with the independent inspiration of neither. He does inspire actor Kley to say 'Stay in the light' about 568 times, all with conviction, but Cormie seems to have been directed to speak in a babyish voice which becomes irritating. Neophyte director Jonathan Liebesman tries to dredge up chills with loud noises and those unexpected black cats that jump out of total darkness.
Kyle makes it to the hospital just in time to keep Michael's doctors from putting him in a sensory deprivation chamber, a medical version of 'let the baby scream itself to sleep.' Kyle's presence brings on the Tooth Fairy and he's locked up again on suspicion of murder when people start getting killed, but he escapes after she takes out most of the police station in the midst of a well-timed power outage. Both Kyle and Michael have been drawing pictures of the same eerie vision, just like the people who saw the Mothman in a film that had the sense not to show us its monster so often. Once Kyle's mother has been slain by the Tooth Fairy, who makes dreadful noises and flits about like a witch on a broom wearing a porcelain mask, we jump forward to Caitlin and Michael's plight. For someone who makes herself at home, Caitlin seems never to have been in Kyle's room before. Things are immediately off-kilter when we're expected to accept that a preteen Kyle would be preparing to go to bed while his girlfriend Caitlin climbs in his window asking if he wants to go swimming at the local quarry. Darkness Falls has spent over a century under the curse of an evil spirit that kills children, but the police seem to never have connected the dots and the townspeople never seem to have heard about a victim other than Kyle.Īfter we learn that the denizens of Darkness Falls hung an elderly woman with a history of kindness to children when two of them got lost one day, we see the events which placed Kyle in a mental institution. We know we're in for a slice of cheese when the film opens with a low rent Blair Witch type fable narrated over a montage of rippling old Victorian photographs. This is a silly amalgamation of (better) horror films we've seen before that's not the least bit scary.
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