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He takes the rocks, keeping a secret untold.
When the Taylors return home, strange things begin to happen. After Stephanie gets home from school, she vomits into a container and puts it under her bed. Bronny catches her, and she and Peter learn that Stephanie has been throwing up for a while; there are many such containers under her bed. They take Stephanie to a hospital for help, leaving Mikey at Bronny's mother's house. At home, Bronny searches online for answers to the strange activity and learns about the Anasazi Indians, who have believed that demons were bound to rocks hidden in underground caves.
If the rocks are taken, the demons take the shape of a crow, snake, coyote, wolf, and buffalo. The family has already had encounters with a crow and a snake. The demons connect to young children who are dragged into their world, triggering an event known as 'The Darkness'. The only way they can be banished is if the rocks are returned to where they were found by someone who is not afraid. Bronny finds a wall on fire in Mikey's room, but Peter rules out the possibility of ghosts.
They later find Mikey covered in black marks from the fire, with blood pouring from his mouth.
Later that night, Bronny has a nightmare of a wolf. Depressed, she starts drinking. In Mikey's room, the fire-damaged part of the wall is revealed to be a portal. Stephanie begins being choked by handprints appearing all over her wall and body.
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In the tree house, Peter sees a coyote, and then sees the shadow of a demon in Stephanie's window. The force stops choking Stephanie as Peter rushes in. Peter then breaks down Mikey's bathroom door, and finds him with marks all over the walls and ceiling. Peter calls a number given to him by his boss.
It is a woman named Teresa, who is said to perform spiritual healings.
Teresa comes over with her granddaughter named Gloria, who acts as a translator. As they cleanse the house, Teresa and Gloria go into Mikey's room, and note that this is where the real evil lives. They recite a chant as Mikey tries to enter the portal. When they realize Mikey's gone, the family races upstairs.
Peter sees Mikey walking into the portal with the demons. He finds the stones and follows Mikey into the portal, but can't set the stones down due to his fear.
He offers to swap places with Mikey but Mikey ends the event of 'The Darkness' by picking the stones up and putting them back down, saying that he is not afraid. The demons have been completely banished, and Peter and Mikey jump out of the portal together. It disappears, and Gloria declares that the house is clean of evil energy as Peter and his family reunite together. Mikey discovers a small Kiva cavern, where he finds black rocks with symbols on them.
He takes the rocks, keeping a secret untold. When the Taylors return home, strange things begin to happen.. This is simply a lame and lazy movie. It has the smallest seeds of potential I think in the aspect of the child with autism. There could be something with a horror movie that uses a child who has this disorder and has some sort of psychic or supernatural connections to things, it could make for a good premise for a movie. This isn't it, however.
The Darkness is generic all the way down to its title - can you imagine the faces lit up when the actors who did get paid anyway so whatever are told they'll be in a new horror movie produced by Jason Blum whatever you think of Blumhouse they made Whiplash so points there for that , and then comes a script called 'The Darkness' and those faces fall a little - and its laziness comes largely in execution.
These aren't all necessarily bad actors really; Kevin Bacon, Radha Mitchell, even Paul Reiser I've seen do excellent work in major films for major artists. And of course the son who is autistic though we don't see that at the start of the movie, set at the Grand Canyon where he happens to plop into a hole and find some spooky rocks, woo rocks, scary , and the filmmakers use the autism more to keep things in the first half suspicious.
So in other words, it's not taking autism really seriously aside from it being a crutch to hold on to: The kid is directed to be pretty one dimensional, and there's a few moments that are just laughably poor. And it all leads up to a conclusion that we've seen a thousand times with these possessed-house movies - and for some reason even though I believe the Anasazi are Native American in heritage the "healers" are Mexican because maybe they couldn't afford to hire Native American actors and having actors speaking Spanish makes things more, uh, 'authentic' or scary.
Could you at least TRY to build real suspense?
Even jump scares, the more tired of the crutches of horror filmmakers today, at least give us something to do in a theater if only by motor-reaction or something. The jump scares here are non-existent to bare-bones ooh, the son's behind her, whoops , and by the climax it's ultimately bloodless too with a PG rating so, uh, kids can sit bored too?
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