Search - Darkness Falls [Special Edition] on DVD

MPAA Rating: PG-13 Content Advisory: Adult Situations, Adult Language Movie Release: 2003 DVD Release: 04/22/2003 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV - Closed Captioned Audio Tracks: English, French Subtitles: English, French SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 26 mins Studio: Columbia TriStar Total Copies: 83 Genres: Horror, Creature Film See Also: Darkness Falls [UMD for PSP]

Children have a very good reason to be afraid of the dark in this flashy horror story. Matilda Dixon was a genially eccentric woman who, in the 1850s, lived in a New England town known as Darkness Falls. Matilda was well known to the local children for her habit of paying them for teeth they'd lost, but when two youngsters mysteriously disappeared, Matilda was lynched by an angry mob wrongly convinced that she had murdered the kids. In the year 2002, former Darkness Falls resident Kyle Walsh (Chaney Kley) lives in Las Vegas and is still desperately afraid of the dark since a childhood run-in with the ghost of Matilda Dixon left him severely traumatized. While police and psychiatrists scoffed at Kyle's stories about Matilda's spirit, his childhood friend Caitlin (Emma Caulfield) is alarmed when her nine-year-old brother Michael (Lee Cormie) begins having nightmares very much like those which disturbed Kyle's rest for years. Like Kyle, Michael has little luck convincing most grown-ups that the white-robed specters he sees in the dark are real, so Caitlin asks Kyle to return to Darkness Falls to help get to the bottom of his story. Darkness Falls marked the directorial debut of filmmaker Jonathan Liebesman. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Chaney Kley - Kyle Walsh
Emma Caulfield - Caitlin
Lee Cormie - Michael
Grant Piro - Larry
Sullivan Stapleton - Matt

Jonathan Liebesman's horror film Darkness Falls makes its debut on DVD with a pair of transfers. The widescreen anamorphic transfer preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio of 2.35:1, and is preferable to the standard full-frame image. An English soundtrack is rendered in Dolby Digital 5.1, while a French soundtrack has been recorded in Dolby Digital Stereo. English and French subtitles are accessible. Supplemental materials include commentary from many of the people involved in the production, deleted scenes, a making-of featurette, and comparisons of storyboards to the finished image. This is a solid release that will please fans of the film as well as genre enthusiasts. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide