Wolf Creek/Darkness Falls
Wolf Creek
Horror movies these days just don’t have enough personality. This is a brutal movie, simply for the sake of brutality. There is no real plot other than a simplistic “Kids get lost and make stupid choices”. Even other movies on the same caliber still had some sort of entertainment value, like Hostel - which I didn’t really like either, but at least that had some sort of payoff in the end. I didn’t like this movie at all.
Darkness Falls
I had initially avoided this movie because the previews gave me the heebie-jeebies. I eventually put this in my Netflix queue and it’s taken this long for me to see it. The good: Emma Caulfield was a favorite of mine as Anya in Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV show - and it was nice seeing her. The Bad: Everything else. The movie was not as horrifying nor creepy as I wanted it to be. The premise of a murderous Tooth Fairy quickly devolved into some spirit that kills people and is hurt by light (any kind of light - even a friggin’ lightstick?). The writers are to blame - I could’ve written something that played on that premise and it would have been terrifying. Also hurting it was the PG-13 rating - simply not enough creative kills or gore - people are just whisked away into the darkness and scream *yawn*.
Next in my queue: The Man Who Fell to Earth, Jack Frost, and Zach Galifianakis: Live.