False scares. Avid friends of cheap horrors are used to them: cats, squeaking doors, cars rushing into the frame. In every scary movie there is at least one false scare and you can judge the quality of the movie how sophisticated they are. "The Dark" consists entirely of false scares, unbelievably there isn't a real one in it. They are executed in two ways: Over- amplified Sounds (like doors slamming with the power of an h-bomb explosion) and by cutting together images machine-gun-like with no sense at all. At the beginning this, not very imaginative, technique succeeds but after about 15 Minutes you WILL get tired of it, believe me. Especially after realizing that the story won't lead anywhere. It's really hard to believe that cheap stuff like this is still produced in this century and there are people actually willing to pay for it. I mean you'll find everything here: annoying dialog, below-standard cinematography, a weak story (with an even weaker pay-off), boring direction and one- dimensional characters. I've haven't been bored like this for long time. Stay away from it. And don't even bother about the synopsis.
