Thanks, hosenhaus.  I hadn't heard of this one.   

I was pleased to see that there is a dvd of it available at Amazon.com.

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While I was checking it out, I read some of the reviews there, and it certainly did get some terrible ones from those who aren't at least Kevin Zegers or Jesse James fans. 

Some reviews were okay, and even if they weren't positive, they were fair and didn't go on the attack in a personal way.  This one made me kind of mad, though:

<i>...this film fails the two most important credentials of any decent horror movie: it's not scary and the actors are truly awful. From the opening sequence, showing another slightly overweight pre-teen getting trapped in a basement (maybe Central Casting were having a sale on fat kids?), both a lousy script and no talent whatsoever (except possibly the abilities to over-act and waddle) to the closing scenes, complete with Mom and Dad and Morals (we almost expect to see Michael Landon waving at us from the corner!), 'Fear of the Dark' never once manages to create a sense of tension or of belief.

This is achieved through several things. The first and most annoying feature that negates any form of scariness is Brian Billings, done up like a rotund little Terminator, mincing around and screaming like a B-Movie in a strange hybrid exoskeleton/light suit. It's a ridiculous, hilarious image totally out of place with the proposed 'feel' of the movie...</i>

Well, that's just part of it, but it was so venemous that I thought the reviewer must have had a hidden agenda, and must have been the parent of the kid that Jesse James beat out for the part or something.   

I think I'll buy it, just to show my support for a pretty good little boy actor.   

Love,
Sir J

Sounds good. Whatever movie Darkness Falls was trying to be, it didn't succeed very well.

well youngarthur did u rent it u can buy for bout  £8 on hmv.co.uk if u live in the uk mate xxxnat