Starts out strong...

Rating: 6/10 (21 April 2006)

...ends with the same tired old BS - and worse. The climactic scene utilizes props that look like something from a bad off-Broadway stage production and actually made me giggle - the hovering hospital bed with the dangling i.v. drips and the pasty thirty-something year old supernatural burn victim. But the story is interesting and starts out very strong with some really great visuals and suspense. The first time "the darkness" comes, ushered by an alarm that sounds like your average small town tornado alert horn, it was pretty intense. I give it a 6 to 6.5 out of 10. Without the really great beginning and the decent story it would be a 4.5 to 5. I was expecting more, but I've said that after almost every horror movie I've ever seen, so there you go.