Darkness is a 2002 horror film directed by Jaume Balagueró about an American teenage girl who moves into a haunted house with her family in the Spanish countryside. The film stars Anna Paquin, Lena Olin, Iain Glen, and Fele Martínez. The film premiered in Spain on October 3, 2002, and was released in theaters across the country eight days later on October 11, 2002. It was later sold to Miramax Films for American distribution, but ended up being put on hiatus for over a year; it was eventually released in theaters in an edited, PG-13-rated cut in the United States on December 25,... 2004. Forty years after an unfinished occult ritual resulted in the disappearance of six children, an American family has moved into a never-before inhabited house in Spain. The mother, Maria , wants to get the place in order, while the father, Mark , goes to work, and their children, teenager Regina and her younger brother Paul , try to settle into their daily routines.
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| Release date: | October 3, 2002 |
| Directed by: | Jaume Balagueró |
| Runtime: | 102 Minutes |
| Producer: | Julio Fernández, Brian Yuzna |
| Editor: | Luis de la Madrid |
| Music by: | Carles Cases |
| Cinematography: | Xavi Giménez |
| Screenplay by: | Fernando de Felipe, Jaume Balagueró, Miguel Tejada-Flores |
| Estimated budget: | $10,600,000 |