Despite your immediate expectations about Darkness, you will likely be surprised. I was, actually–the first time I heard about Darkness, I thought it was going to be some kind of ripoff of Darkness Falls, a mediocre horror flick about a tooth fairy gone awry. What I actually got, meanwhile, was a surprisingly chilling little horror romp from a Catalan director, no less.

I bring that up because it’s spectacularly rare. A Catalan horror film, especially one that makes it to the United States film market, comes along very, very seldom. In fact, searches for “Catalan horror film” on both Wikipedia and Google turned up precisely nothing.

In fact, lately, the European horror film market doesn’t have a great many exports. I’ve seen a couple German films crop up every so often, but here in the States, the import horror market is dominated by Asian fare. So when one turns up here–and even gets limited theatrical release–it’s reason to stand up and take notice.

That and it was a pretty good film with a very surprising twist ending. Seriously–out of nowhere was that twist ending.

And if you want to see how you fare against a rarity, try out our Darkness movie trivia.

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