DARKNESS FALLS
Released: January 24, 2003
Expanded upon from "Tooth Fairy", a five-minute film by Joseph Harris, "Darkness Falls" is based on an actual Australian legend from 150 years ago. Matilda Dixon was a nice "tooth fairy," friend to all the kids in the town of Darkness Falls, until she's horribly disfigured in a fire, forced to wear a porcelain mask, and stay out of the daylight. Falsely accused of a terrible crime, she's hanged, but not before she curses the mobbish townsfolk -- whenever kids lose their teeth in the future, she'll come kill them instead of giving the costomary coin. Director Jonathan Liebesman succeeds at the glossy embellished horror film look but it fails to deliver the horror. The tooth fairy "creature" defies logic and gravity and simply looks too much like a special effect. The one saving grace is the very short duration.
85 Minutes
Revolution Studios/Columbia/Sony