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Darkness

Year:

2004

Duration:

88 min | 103 min (Unrated Version)

Genres:

Horror

IMDB rate:

5.4

Director:

Jaume Balagueró

Awards:

2 wins & 3 nominations

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 2004-12-25

Filming Locations: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Earnings

Budget: $10,600,000

Opening Weekend: $6,163,306 (USA) (26 December 2004)

Gross: $22,160,085 (USA) (6 March 2005)

Cast

Actor

Character

Giancarlo Giannini

Darkness

Anna Paquin

Regina

Lena Olin

Maria

Iain Glen

Mark

Fele Martínez

Carlos

Stephan Enquist

Paul

Fermí Reixach

Villalobos (as Fermi Reixach)

Francesc Pagès

Driver Traffic Jam

Craig Stevenson

Electrician

Paula Fernández

Girl 1

Gemma Lozano

Girl 2

Xavier Allepuz

Boy 1

Joseph Roberts

Boy 2

Marc Ferrando

Boy 3

Josh Gaeta

Boy 4

Mattew Dixon

Boy 5

Carlos Castañón

Friend 1

Carles Punyet

Friend 2

Reg Wilson

Librarian

Ferran Lahoz

Taxi Driver Regina

Pedro Antonio Segura

Patient Traffic Jam

Astrid Fenollar

Old Woman 1

Lidia Dorado

Old Woman 2

Clara Manguillot

Old Woman 3

David Martí

Man Sleeping on Bus (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

David Martí: special effects artist, as a man sleeping in the bus.

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Director Jaume Balagueró attempted to recruit actress Natalie Portman to play the part of Regina, which eventually went to Anna Paquin.

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Bodycount: 11.

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Goofs

When Paul lines up his colored pencils a crew members hand can be seen with an air nozzle ready to make the pencil roll under the bed.

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(Around 23 minutes into the movie) Regina comes down the stairs and sees that her dad has found a secret room under the stairs. Her father comes out holding a picture apparently very interested. Regina asks her father, "What's that?" looking at the space under the stairs. We then see a still frame where just barely, you can see Regina's father still in the space looking at the picture even though he had just stepped out of that area.

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Quotes

Regina: Since when are you afraid of the dark?

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Carlos: Where is Regina?

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Paul: I don't like the dark here, it keeps eating my pencils.

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Faq

What are the differences between the PG-13 and Unrated Version?

In the States a PG-13 Version of this horror movie was released in cinemas. This version was released on the US-DVD alongside the unrated version. Aside several, in the sum massive, plot cuts, which are certainly owed to a "movie theater-friendly" runtime of near 90 minutes, more than 40 pure censorship-edits have been made to secure the rating. In addition to that, this cut version was darkened, so that in scenes you cannot remove/change without causing problems in the narrative you cannot make out injuries and the like that easily. A detailed comparison between both versions with pictures can be found here.

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