10 Promising Horror Movies That Totally Sucked

You wouldn’t expect Greg McLean, who also made Wolf Creek, to take the reins on a PG-13 horror movie and sure enough, the critics wondered if he was phoning this one in.

Originally titled 6 Miranda Drive, The Darkness (how’s that for a generic title?) stars Kevin Bacon and Radha Mitchell as a couple who return home from a Grand Canyon vacation to find their lives invaded by a supernatural presence.

One critic called the movie “pretty much a total bust – it isn’t scary, it isn’t exciting and it plods along at such a snail’s pace that even though it clocks in at just over 90 minutes, it plays like it runs at least twice that.”

The cast is good, McLean does what he can with the material (as it’s his first film that he didn’t write) but the results are thin and predictable at best.