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‘Darkness Falls’ Get Uneventful Blu-ray Release
Before Battle: Los Angeles and Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, Jonathan Leibesman directed the infamous Darkness Falls. Sad as this sounds to me (because it makes me feel old), some of you may be too young to remember the controversy behind this movie that graced the web back in 2003. An original test screening in 2002 was declared a failure when the studio demanded that the audience see more of the creature. Stan Winston was brought in to bring the creature to the forefront. The twist is that the test screening scores were POSITIVE and the movie ended up being a piece of crap (sans the incredible opening sequence, where the witch is kept in the dark).
Anyways, you may as well get that story out of your head because Leibesman tells me on multiple occasions that the original cut is gone and lost. We can add that to the growing list of infamous horror tales that we all pray for on DVD/Blu-ray in the future.
Those of you who actually enjoy the finished product, Image will release on Blu-ray October 18. No specs have been revealed yet, but there’s no mention of an alternate cut.
“A vengeful spirit has taken the form of the Tooth Fairy to exact vengeance on the town that lynched her 150 years earlier. Her only opposition is the only child, now grown up, who has survived her before.”
Are you ready to go back?
After a record-breaking box office run and an extended cut re-release, A24 and director Kane Parsons’ Backrooms is heading home to Digital.
Backrooms will be available to rent or buy this Tuesday, July 14.
In the film, Chiwetel Ejiofor stars in Backrooms as the owner of Cap’n Clark’s Ottoman Empire, who discovers a strange doorway in the basement of the furniture showroom. He sets out to explore the mysterious, liminal space, walking headfirst into a creepypasta nightmare.
Renate Reinsve (A Different Man) also stars in Backrooms.
Will Soodik wrote the screenplay.
I wrote in my review, “Backrooms is at once complex and sparse, but never repetitive. It might be set in 1990, but it effectively captures modern anxieties and isolation in a way that frequently makes your skin crawl. While the journey ultimately loses steam by its cryptic end, Parsons’ visual representation of the human psyche disturbs like no other.”
YouTube prodigy Kane Parsons makes his feature directorial debut based on his creepypasta-inspired video series, which debuted in 2022 and has amassed over 190 million views to date.