Metacritic reviews

If you’re looking for a compelling horror flick, don’t waste your time with Darkness Falls.

About as scary as a ride on a minor roller coaster, it unrolls its amplified butcher-block shock effects within the first five minutes.

Isn't satisfying or surprising. It doesn't even make sense from scene to scene.

A joyless amalgam of horror movie cliches, none used more exhaustively than the false alarm.

Do you really need me to tell you how scary this horror show isn't?

Dumb.

A lamebrained attempt at horror that is just a derivative pastiche of ideas lifted from other bad films.

Darkness Falls -- with a thud. But it does not go gently into the night, for director Jonathan Liebesman and his large crew cram as much style and energy as they can into a hokey and morbid supernatural thriller plot. It's a downer to see so much effort expended on such junk.

Black cats, ill-timed power outages and children in peril are just a few of the hoary scare tactics ineffectively rendered in the style of so many films buried in the dark recesses of January.

A truly awful and extremely loud scareflick.