Year: 2002 Genre: Horror
Country: USA / Spain
Original Title: The Dark
Director: Jaume Balaguer
Cast: Anna Paquin, Lena Olin, Iain Glen, Giancarlo Giannini, Fele Martinez
Availability: DVD
Plot:
A family moves into a strange isolated house, but something seems wrong, come to life as soon as it gets dark. The two children begin to feel the presence of disturbing elements, while the father gives progressive signs of imbalance. The house hides a terrible past: it was the scene of a massacre of children. Now, after exactly forty years, coinciding with an eclipse of the sun, the evil is to complete what was left off.
Comment:
A few years after its debut, Balaguer puts his name in the cursed genre of the houses.
Having achieved the status of young hopefuls from the Catalan with Nameless gives a more psychological horror to devote himself. Supported in the field distribution by Bryan Yuzna and his Fantastic Four, Darkness can enjoy an economic effort that is reflected in the choice of a cast and an important effector care, aimed at sewing the best weaving esoteric plot.
very personal style of English, which favors the building of tension through the gradual growth and structural relationships emotions between the characters and the narrative context, rather than resorting to mere effettaccio aesthetic end in itself. In this perspective it is perfectly placed the house in which to live are the protagonists of the film, isolated from the rest of the world and mother of dirty leaden atmosphere, able to terrorize the host as soon as the sun was to fall and darkness dominates.
In fact it is the house the real protagonist, the central pivot around which the stories of the characters almost fallen to mere functional objects to the mire of evil. The story is of the damned will stay hidden until the final, while for the duration of the film will make tentative appearances by the use of flashback or narrative elements (the discovery of the secret room, the picture of the "sisters") that will blow the demonic influences, bringing insanity to the father-husband.
Despite considerable aesthetic in the film industry continues a sense of boredom, destroyed only for sporadic moments in the important moments that succeed in every way to maintain a minimum level of curiosity, only to regain the trust of the viewer into an incredible ending. Is still appealing the occult and ritualistic nature of the script, the solar eclipse that takes the earth to be turned into darkness with the eternal sacrifice of seven children.
Palesi influences rushed to the realization of a film, guilty and aware to return - albeit with a personality - in a vein quite prolific in the recent past, cleverly builds and pays homage to the classic performers such as the type Amytiville Horror (again, the days are scanned one by one) and Shining (Iain Glen's character has a lot of Jack Torrance Nicholson). Shining it also picks up the child relationship - ghost, almost similar to that seen in Kubrick's film Darkness little Paul is haunted by dark presences that haunt the house, depicting children of his age.
As mentioned earlier the better collection of players takes place efficiently with the homework, carving out some points in absolute personality. I am referring to the character of Giancarlo Giannini, real element of surprise in the development of the storyline, sinister and gloomy enough air to be with his Italian doc. A real change artist. Lena Olin and Anna Paquin (True Blood of the bitch) would work best in their roles as mother and daughter bound by a difficult relationship, emphasized throughout, and which finds its maximum exposure in the transcendent final. To support Fele Martinez, who is also plays a role quite similar to that seen in Tesis . In fact, Regina will help you to discover the mysteries hidden behind the mysterious house.
Summing Darkness is not the best Balaguer's work, but it is definitely a movie atmosphere that should be seen in its fullness because, although in its slowness, the entire course is nothing but the brain and the construction of a manic tour de force in its final 20 minutes will accommodate the audience came from there a bit 'bored.
memorable scenes: the discovery of pane of the seven sisters and the discovery dell'oroboros; the final.
Rating: 3 / 5 rating
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