Darkness Falls | |
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Directed by | Julien Seri |
Written by | Giles Daoust |
Produced by | Luke Barnett Giles Daoust Mike Macari Vincent Masciale |
Starring | |
Cinematography | Shan Liljestrand |
Edited by | Brody Gusar |
Music by | Sacha Chaban |
Production company | Title Media |
Distributed by | WTFilms |
Release dates | 7 March 2020 (Glasgow Film Festival) 12 June 2020 (UK) |
Running time | 84 minutes |
Countries | Belgium France United States |
Language | English |
Darkness Falls is a 2020 crime thriller film directed by Julien SeriShawn Ashmore, Gary Cole and Lin Shaye.
, starringAnton Bitel of SciFiNow wrote that while the film "comes very slickly packaged", the dialogue is "perfunctory at best", the "cat-and-mouse, cop vs killer mechanics are entirely generic" and the female characters are "mere foils for Jeff".[1]
Jeffrey Anderson of Common Sense Media rated the film 1 star out of 5 and wrote that Seri "has delivered a good-looking Los Angeles noir that quickly becomes nearly unwatchable, thanks to wonky dialogue, shrill performances, a flat story, and overbearing music."[2]
Sheila O'Malley of RogerEbert.com rated the film 1 star out of 4 and called the film a "bizarre series of cliché after cliché, with no real work done to fill in the blanks with complexity, nuance, or even basic human reality."[3]