28th Worst Movie: Darkness

“Darkness” Starring Anna Paquin, Lena Olin and Iain Glen
Directed by Jaume Balaguero

I Want To Be Back In The Light
By Michele Dillon

I came to a realization during this movie: Anna Paquin can’t act! I never really noticed it before because she has only been a few movies that I have enjoyed and those all include the X-Men series. I just thought that everybody in that movie was having a bad acting experience because those types of movies are really just focused on the action rather than anything else and if they are pulled off right then it doesn’t matter. But put Anna Paquin in a non action movie with a really bad script, and you can totally see her dreadful acting.

It took this movie a long time to get started. There would be a normal scene and Paquin would be talking about how she thinks something weird is going on and then there would be a flash of a kid standing in the dark and then it would move on. Then it would almost repeat the same scene again but nothing major would happen. Then in the last 15 minutes everything happened in full speed and I was on the edge of my seat…ready to turn the DVD off. I’m a pretty easily scared person. I am actually pretty certain that if I were to star in a scary movie, there would be no need for fake screaming. However, this movie was very likely one of the un-scariest movies I have ever seen.

The story of the movie is this family that moves to Spain (for a reason that was never explained). Once they are moved in, weird things start to happen. Paquin’s little brother wakes up with bruises on his body and her dad starts up with his fits again (something called Harrington syndrome which they thought he was cured). Whenever Paquin tells her mother about these things, she just dismisses it and tells her it’s nothing to worry about (since when did a mother never care that her own son has bruises all over himself?). Paquin takes things in her own hands and researches the history of the house along with a friend of hers. She finds out that 40 years ago some kind of occult was happening and 7 children had gone missing and were never found. I don’t want to give away any more of the movie because it was just too amazing and I want you to find out for yourself (looks like I could be in a movie about sarcasm too!)