Review – Darkness Falls

As ghost stories go, this one’s not too bad. Of course, I’m not the world’s biggest ghost story fan, so take it for what it’s worth. The premise is a little thin: a disfigured woman murdered by townspeople a century earlier is still exacting her ghostly revenge upon the town’s children by assuming the role of an evil killer Tooth Fairy. The ghost herself is sort of cool, and the trick of defeating her by staying out of the darkness makes for some engaging plot twists (despite the fact that the plot device itself is more than a little “borrowed”). So by all means come for the spooky stuff, but don’t feel like you have to stay put during the story or character development scenes. They never amount to much. The deleted scenes on the DVD are a bit odd in that big chunks of them appear to have ended up in the movie itself. The disc also features a fakeumentary about the “real” legend that supposedly inspired the movie. Mildly amusing