THE DARKNESS (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Kevin Bacon (A Few Good Men), Radha Mitchell (Man on Fire), David Mazouz (Gotham), Lucy Fry (Vampire Academy), Matt Walsh (The Hangover), Jennifer Morrison (Once Upon a Time), Parker Mack (Divergent), Ming-Na Wen (Mulan), Trian Long-Smith (The Company We Keep), Paul Reiser (Beverly Hills Cop), Tara Lynne Barr (God Bless America), Judith McConnell (The Purge: Anarchy), Krista Marie Yu (Christmas with the Coopers), A.J. Tannen (Extramarital)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Greg McLean (Wolf Creek), director, writer, producer; Shayne Armstrong (Acolytes) and Shane Krause (Bait), writers; Jason Blum (Insidious), Matthew Kaplan (The Lazarus Effect) and Bianca Martino (film debut), producers; Johnny Klimek (Cloud Atlas), composer; Toby Oliver (Beneath Hill 60), cinematographer; Sean Lahiff (Swerve), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

The Taylor family returns from a trip to the Grand Canyon – only to soon discover that they may have brought back with them a supernatural force that’s out to destroy them…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

The Darkness may be yet another Blumhouse film that shows how messing with supernatural forces is a very, very bad idea, but the scares should come easy and quick all the same.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 13TH MAY 2016

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