When a couple (Lena Olin, Iain Glen) with a teenage daughter (Anna Paquin) & a 6-year-old son (Stephan Enquist) move into an old house somewhere in Spain, creepy things soon start to happen - with the father having an epilleptic attack 6 becoming more & more violent, the electricity coming & going at will without anything being wrong with the wiring, & the little boy drawing pictures of dead kids & having bruises he cannot account for just being the tip of the iceberg. Only Anna Paquin seems to notice though that here's something inherently wrong, thus finding out the architect (Fermi Reixach) of the house (this probably doesn't make much sense if you only read it, it does so in the movie, which swiftly follows the logic of a horror movie), who tells her that the house is built like a sacrificial temple, & that 6 kids were killed there some 40 years ago in the name of Darkness - would it have been 7, it would have been the perfect sacrifice, Darkness would have taken over, but since tomorrow is an eclipse of the sun anyways, the sacrifice may be completed (that, too, makes sense in the movie). Later, Paquin confides in her granddad (Giancarlo Giannini), unbeknowest that he is actually tied in with the sacrifices, & that 40 years ago, his son Iain Glen was the supposed seventh victim, & even though she can finally escape the old man & finally has all the pieces of the puzzle, she fails to put them together correctly & in the end helps to finish the sacrifice she wanted to prevent - Darkness takes over ...

Nice & creepy chiller, very much relying on spooky atmosphere, and though in the first half it tries a little too hard to create the same with tried & true recipes, that on some occasions seem to be copied scene-by-scene from Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, the finale is simply breathtaking & highly original & imaginative, bringing the oft-times gotesque imagery to a suspenseful conclusion. Anna Paquin is also great in the role of the by then rather cliched final girl-role, often holding the story together when the absurd proceedings are just too way-out to do so. Iain Glen, on the other hand, is a real let-down, he just doesn't seem able to act at all, never showing just one fitting reaction to the proceedings, not even trying to make his character remotely coherent, more often than not just sporting the "Hey look, I'm in a movie"-face. Thank god he has only a supporting role.

review � by Mike Haberfelner

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