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Very disappointing...

Sadly Over-hyped

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A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

On the twentieth-first birthday of Celia (Monica Keena), her friend Justine (Jessica Stroup) invites her to go to a party in a fraternity. Celia is still grieving the death of her beloved grandfather Joe (Tim Thomerson), who has recently died, and blames herself for the death of her mother in her delivery. In the party, she is drugged and gang raped; then she has an OD and dies alone in a bathroom. Out of the blue, she finds alone in the fraternity house and she is lured and attacked by Joe. However, her guardian angel Donovan (David Anders), who saved her life when she was a girl, explains the rules to keep the protection of her sanctuary and survive the massive attack of soul eaters. Sooner Celia finds that she is in a sort of purgatory and distrusts Donovan; further, she does not know who is telling the truth and how to reach Heaven. "Left in the Darkness" has an interesting and original premise but there are to many rules to be followed in the purgatory where the lead actress spends two hours trying to discover who is really helping her and finding the way to the paradise. Monica Keena and David Anders have good performances in the lead roles. I have recently seen a movie with Jessica Stroup, but unfortunately her character has a minor but important participation. This film was released in Brazil directly on DVD by Flashstar Distributor and deserves to be watched at least once. My vote is five.Title (Brazil): "Terror na Escuridão" ("Terror in the Darkness")

I thought this movie would be a lot better especially since a lot of the other Stephen J. Cannell straight to DVD movies i've seen were pretty good.Ones like It lives,the garden and room 6 were enjoyable but left in darkness was a good script and good idea but it reminded me more of an all ages movie that you would see on TV.The score was more like a Disney movie and the acting was OK but not great.It was just not scary.I can't believe Steve and the director actually thought it was scary when they said it was in the making of or behind the scenes extra feature.The character of Donovan was the worst written because when he died he was an 8 year old boy,so why was he 20 something all of a sudden when Celia died.I didn't realize you aged after you died.I assumed you stayed the same age.Also why was he her guardian angel while she was alive,and then a demon or devil when she dies.That whole part was stupid and made no sense.It would have made more sense if she met Donovan again as an 8 year old boy the way he appeared to her in a cemetery.But aging him and making him evil is just very inconsistent.And as if a little girl is going to fly through the air after nearly being hit by a car.The monsters looked more like something from a sci-fi or fantasy movie not a horror.It was very predictable and not well executed.I have seen movies with way lower budgets that are actually scary and seemed believable.This one was more of a disappointment.

"Left in Darkness" is a potentially good film with a few large, nearly unforgivable flaws.**SPOILERS**Depressed over her mother's day during childbirth with her, Celia, (Monica Keena) agrees to go to a frat party with her friend Rachel, (Tarah Paige) when she turns 21. Given a spiked drink, she is drugged, raped and dies of an accidental overdose and left for dead at the party. Awakening with her guardian angel, Donovan, (David Anders) by her side, she realizes that she has died during the night. Trapped in a netherworld between sanctuary and damnation, her recently deceased grandfather, Grandpa Joe, (Tim Thomerson) appears to her, but changes into a demon, leading her to the realization that all people who die are trapped in the limbo waiting to be picked off by soul-eating demons unless they are able to find a doorway to Heaven. With the opportunity closing, she races to find the entrance to Heaven before the demons can get to her and take her soul.The Good News: This had some nice moments inside it. The film's best moments easily come from the "Soul-Eaters"-like zombies that are thrown into the proceedings and they are pretty cool. They look like zombies, as they have pointed fingernails, very weird and distorted faces that are appropriately demonic and eat human flesh like zombies. As they derive a large amount of menace from their looks, and with a really rational motive for being there that mixes the action up a bit, they get most of the film's best scenes and look incredibly. Some of the chases aren't that terrible and do have a certain flair to them, including one where they chase a victim around a floor and into a room filled with glass, which is promptly broken and leaves huge glass shards on the floor, which in close-up is soon trampled through by large boots. It's a pretty creepy scene and the best chase in the film. Also found within the film is a clear mastery of darkness and shadow, creating an ambiance of dread with little more than some incredibly effective mood lighting. As the lights go out, the suspense is amped up through what is happening and the race to get moving generates some good moments. The originality of the plot, though, is the film's strongest positive. It's really new and clever, and takes an established scenario that is incredibly common, and wraps a new twist around it that is logical in the context and done with a lot of cleverness. Otherwise, this wasn't all that great.The Bad News: This does have a couple of serious flaws. The editing is a mess, as it's hard to be sure how much jump cuts, unnecessary flashes, and slowing down and speeding up of the frame rate are thrown into this. At times, it's nearly impossible to see what's going on in the scene. Such editing techniques tend to ruin the sustained tension that a scene can convey, and as most find them annoying and unnecessary, this is a very noticeable and serious flaw of the film. Also a problem is the film's back-story. As good as it's cleverness is, it's just way to talky. Therein lies the biggest problem of the movie, as it's essentially ninety minutes of exposition spruced up with a few chases. There just isn't anything remotely scary about people standing around explaining the rules of the afterlife. The heroine has to take in all this afterlife nonsense, without even a way of speeding up the introductions while fighting to keep her soul. Her helper is not helping matters either, as he explains so much of what goes on that it becomes hard to keep track of everything. This creates a large number of plot-holes and confusing scenes. He explains that the frat house, in the netherworld she now finds herself, is her sanctuary, which is almost over. After that, the soul-eating demons can enter. How the first demon got in is not explained. Why she only has a short time to find the physical doorway to Heaven is also not explained. And why does she need to find the entrance to heaven anyway? Isn't dying bad enough? Why would God want her to play detective? It is theological plot devices like these that drive me crazy. All of this would be fine, though, if a grave error isn't committed along the way. If they let her act intelligently, she'll stay in the light and keep things safe until she can find her stairway to heaven. As that would lead to an uneventful movie, great effort is made to get her thrown into the pit of Hell with every chance she gets. She runs out of the light like an idiot many times. Her guardian angel comes down to help her but even then, it doesn't matter much, as that only leads her into more encounters. It starts to get annoyed watching her act like a suicidal, unintelligent person. It destroys a lot of what happens when all the problems could've been easily avoided with common sense. These all bring the film down a lot.The Final Verdict: Despite a marvelously original premise and some good scenes, this here isn't that spectacular overall. It's too loose with it's own rules and too dull to really be of much interest beyond those who enjoy the direct-to-video market or think the premise is original enough to give it a look.Rated R: Graphic Language, Nudity, Rape and Violence

Be forewarned - There may be spoilers in this review! I really liked this movie! I have to admit, I don't really like movies with a lot of gore, so I tend to avoid most, if not all, horror movies. This movie, however, seemed to rely more on mood and suspense instead of blood and guts. I feel as though the movie really upped the ante because instead of just having the heroine trying to flee for her life, she is trying to save her soul.Also, for all of you David Anders fans, you will not be disappointed. He did an excellent job and I really hope to see him in more movies. It was as if this role was written just for him. I couldn't imagine another person in the role.I highly recommend this film!