Quartile rating: 5.5/10 · 1 rating
A vengeful spirit has taken the form of the Tooth Fairy to exact vengeance on the town that lynched her 150 years earlier. Her only opposition is the only child, now grown up, who has survived her before.
Darkness Falls has a genuinely clever premise — reimagining the Tooth Fairy as a vengeful witch spirit — which gives it above-average Novelty for a mid-2000s horror entry. The cinematography makes decent use of darkness and light contrast, particularly around the lighthouse sequences, giving it some visual tension. However, the plot is thin and formulaic once the concept is established, failing to develop characters or mythology in any meaningful way. The acting is serviceable at best, with leads delivering flat performances under poor scripting. The ending resolves predictably and without much earned catharsis, following horror genre conventions without subverting or elevating them.