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By
TERESSA ELLIOTT
Horror film about the ghost of a woman seeking revenge on the town of Darkness
Falls for the last one hundred and fifty years: While alive she was the town's
"tooth fairy," and children would bring her their baby teeth for a coin. But
when two children disappeared and she was wrongfully accused of murdering them,
she placed a curse on the town and has been going about killing off the
residents ever since. The movie stars Emma Caulfield from the series "Buffy the
Vampire Slayer" and she should have stuck with her day job.
The film isn't suspenseful or gory -- not good for a horror film. While the
legend behind the film is interesting (a DVD special feature is a featurette
about the supposed legend of Matilda Dixon, a.k.a. the Tooth Fairy), how scary
can a villain be with a moniker like the Tooth Fairy?
In addition to the featurette about the Australian legend, extras include a
seventeen minute making-of featurette, a handful of deleted scenes, storybook to
film comparisons and not one but two commentaries: One with the director, two
producers and a writer and the other with producers and writers. Unfortunately,
this wealth of extras is as uninteresting as the film itself (although one of
the producers does believe the Columbia studio torchbearer on its logo is
Annette Bening -- as rumor also has it -- which makes for an insider's chuckle). |
