Film Review – The Darkness

Director Greg McLean is best known for his work on “Wolf Creek” and its sequel, establishing him as a genre filmmaker with an appetite for violence and silent menace emerging from corporeal threats. His interests turn to the supernatural for “The Darkness,” a ghost story that’s never really about malicious spirits, showing more interest in exploring a dysfunctional family challenged by poor communication, behavioral issues, and alcoholism. There’s barely any room for frights in this dismal, uneventful chiller, but McLean isn’t going down without a fight. Packing plenty of cheap scares and loose logic in this misfire, the helmer tries to tart up “The Darkness” with expected noise, but it never comes together as imagined, failing to compete with other, better haunted house tales. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com