nlxl I watched the movie on Amazon Prime (Germany) on a Saturday afternoon and thoroughly enjoyed it. It is not the scariest horror movie - and, if you watch a lot of horror movies, you might even say it is not scary at all. You will have the usual scares: noices, shadows, objects moving by themselves, etc. BUT: The story behind these is different than usually! And it has a lot of great and well-known actors. If you are into TV shows, be sure not to miss the little scenes with Jennifer Morrison ("Once Upon a Time") and Ming-Na Wen ("Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D."). There's also Paul Reiser very convincingly playing a very annoying character. Kevin Bacon is a great lead and David Mazouz as Michael Taylor might be the creepiest part of the whole movie. Watch it! -- But don't necessarily compare it to movies like "The Conjuring" and its franchise or "Insidious". It's not a James Wan movie.

strupar-66747 Why would bacon play in such a poor movie other than being skint and needing the money?

strike-1995 Just rubbish and that's being kind. Why on earth did this film get made.

Leofwine_draca THE DARKNESS is another hodge podge of tired ideas like many horror films today. The story is about an ordinary family who visit the Grand Canyon. A kid brings some rocks back home, but it turns out they're cursed by a demon which proceeds to follow them and make their family life a misery. Despite the presence of some useful players here this is very much an ordinary production which I found very mundane. There are bits and pieces of THE EXORCIST, POLTERGEIST, INSIDIOUS and plenty of other films visible throughout and yet the film has no distinct voice like any of those other movies. Kevin Bacon and Radha Mitchell are good value as the parents but they have little to work with here and Bacon's STIR OF ECHOES was much more entertaining. Director Greg McLean previosly made mini-masterworks like ROGUE and WOLF CREEK so it's a shame to see him wasting his time on this; try THE BELKO EXPERIMENT for a much more enjoyable time.