Darkness Rising (2017)

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

I don't know what everyone is going on about. I have seen countless horror movies on this site rated anywhere from a 5 to even a 7 that are indeed the "garbage piles" full of "awful acting" and "confusing" elements and are way worse than this. I'm giving it a 9 whereas I might have given it a 7 or an 8 just to bump the score up even a fraction of a half of a point because it doesn't deserve to be in the 3's where it is now. At least we have most of our questions ultimately get answered, we have some deeply disturbing—and LONG—scenes to sit through, it builds at the end, and I have seen way bigger WFT moments tossed into an intro and an ending than this one. They're easy to shake off. This film even managed to pull off a funny reference to a current TV show without feeling contrived. While the idea of going to this house 20 years after an "incident" for closure the night before it gets torn down is, yes, a cliché and far-fetched, I found the actors actually did way less stupid-decision-making in order for the plot to move forward than many horror movies typically call for, forcing us to facepalm.It's unsettling AF at some points, and while it's not going to keep me up at night, I'm not sorry I watched it, like I have been with so many other horror movies.It's worth a watch.

This movie was so bad it was funny. I have not rated or reviewed a single movie until this piece of hot trash compelled me to take out my laptop and write this. I feel bad for the actors in this movie because they probably will not be able to find work if any agent views this.The acting was terrible. The movie jumped all over the place. The main guy 'Jake' just screamed swear words the entire time. I feel robbed of my valuable time. Please, PLEASE do not watch this movie.

Why? I mean how? How could ANYBODY approve this non-script, get people to back it with real money and get people to perform in it? I'm usually critical of movies that have no 3rd act. This movie doesn't have a 1st or 2nd either. It does have a prologue and Ivan Raimi was in it which is why I decided to watch it. He's not in the movie. The prologue goes nowhere, btw. Raimi wears a hat and tie evocative of the 40's or 50's making you think 20 years in the future where the main story takes place should be the 60's or 70's. WRONG. It's modern times with the cell phone design and cultural references making sure we know that. This is an example of 'participation trophy' cinema. This is what comes from children being made to feel they're special when they don't achieve so they grow up thinking they can do anything when they are totally unqualified and below average and stayed that way because their parents didn't have the fortitude to teach them that to accomplish something of merit you must WORK HARD. I really felt bad for the actors. They were obviously trying very hard to sell this ridiculous attempt at a horror movie but the dialogue is just putrid. The setup is clichéd and ridiculous. And how many abandoned houses do you know of that have linen on the bed, closets full of clothes and kitchen drawers full of silverware? The cousin goes to get one the character's mother's leather jacket out of the closet and it has a post 2000 design and looks like it's never been worn. And no dust... ANYWHERE. This is the level of stupidity this movie operates in.There is no making sense of the story because the author doesn't know what the hell is going on, either. Nothing makes sense and it's clear the author thinks all horror movies are about are putting scary scenes together. There's no need for an actual story. NONE of the scenes are technically sound enough to make them scary. The special effects are horrid and not in a good way. Amateurish is the word that comes to mind.There's a particularly terrible scene where the cousin explains what's going on and the director has her making jerky movements to approximate the video effect seen in the remake of House on Haunted Hill and countless other modern horror movies. Like I said, this must've been a tough gig.If you value your brain cells, STAY AWAY!!!

I don't say yikes meaning the movie was good and/or scary. I mean that I think I lost brain cells watching this. I have zero experience with movie-making or really anything in the film industry but if I ever released a movie like this I feel like I would be disgracing horror movies that are actually decent (The Omen, The Exorcist, The Shining, The Babadook, etc.). Don't even bother with this. These are the type of horror movies that need to die.