Remember That Terrible Movie About The EVIL TOOTH FAIRY?
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*What should I cover next?* ... Got a horror from your childhood that needs explored?
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My Ritual Recommends:
As Above, So Below (2014)
Mr. Jones (2013)
Underworld series (2003-2017)
Soulmate (2013)
Well the Brothers Grimm was pretty creepy. I think you might like it
I'm so sorry for saying this a third time but totally "Soul Surviver" and "Requim for a Dream:
Haunting of Hill House or Bly Manor would be awesome
The scariest film that features The Tooth Fairy is the one starring The Rock.
One of the strangest team-ups to ever be realized in a feature film...and yet, it kind of worked somehow? I remember it turning out pretty funny and endearing.
Tbh that movie was pretty good
That is definitely a modern kid's movie classic~!
I don't remember that one. However I do remember Disney's "Toothless" starring Kirsty Alley as a miserable, child-hating dentist who gets run over by a bus (or semi or some large vehicle) and ends up in Purgatory where she's tasked with becoming The Tooth Fairy and bringing joy to children all over the world if she wants to avoid being sent to Hell. (And I'm not being hyperbolic either, they literally tell her that if she doesn't succeed as a Tooth Fairy, she will be sent to Hell via the Hellevator. They even have an escalator that leads to Heaven.)
It was one of Disney's made for TV movies that aired on the ABC network back in the mid-to late 90s. Needless to say it was a wild time back then.
@@cannibalisticrequiem holy fuck you unlocked a forgotten memory
If you leave your loose tooth under your pillow with a HOYEVER note, the tooth fairy leaves you RAY-CON ear buds.
And all the coins you could ever want for Raid: Shadow Legends
I think I'd rather take the nickel.
Okay that’s fucking funny
Sounds like a good way to get your roommate murdered.
Nordvpn approved
“Darkness Falls is like if Stephen King wrote a Guillermo del Toro fan fic during his cocaine years.”
I have never heard a more vivid description in my life.
My sleep paralysis demon is just Stephen King during his coke years
Imagine a version of Gerald's Game where coked-up Stephen King shows up and starts talking story ideas.
That doesn't sound to bad tbh
"so they kill the demon clown with a slingshot and then... And then..... Ooh, I know! They all bang."
- Stephen King, probably
this is too real.
Come on, to be fair some of his best work was done as a Coke Addict/Alcoholic...but yes terrifying
This movie scared the ever loving shit out of me as a child. My mom had to tell me the tooth fairy, Easter bunny, half way crooks, Santa… all imaginary. It was a weird night.
Ain't no such thing as half way crooks...they scared to death, they scared to look, they shook...
Same dude, the first scene where the mum dies fucked me up
SAME! It terrified me so much I couldn’t sleep by myself for like a year. Then I needed a nightlight until I was like twelve
@@DragonMaiden77 I still use a night night at 34 but I also have night terrors and insomnia that comes and goes.
@@lionelhutz5137 I literally only know of "half way crooks," FROM the mobb deep song. I thought it just meant people who didn't go all in for the lifestyle. What is this fairytale thing being mentioned?
It might be terrible but that scene with the boy hiding in the bathroom gave young me nightmares for months
same, fucked me up for a while actually lmao
Yea. It's the scene I remember the most from this film.
Same. The tragedy of losing his mom paired with the absolutely terrifying face hit me hard. The night after I saw it I couldn’t go to bed and was physically shaking.
And then he got blamed for her death and called crazy, which makes it all the worse.
Absolutely same! I genuinely slept with the light on after watching this movie.
Plot Twist Idea: The main character's father/grandfather led the mob that killed her, and by leaving him as the lone survivor each time, she was saying "this is how it feels to be accused of something you didn't do". This could have added a deeper theme around the dangers of mob mentality and commentary on how the justice system does lock away the wrong people way more often than it should.
I like that twist more than the idea he came up with about her being a psychotic episode and out guy was the real killer
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Yeah I agree I can see it being similar to ParaNorman too
I actually like this movie and what they were trying to do. The police station? Lighthouse? That scene where the boy was in the bathroom? Like damn it was really good. It might now have been a nightmare on elm or hellraiser but at least it wasn't some crappy run of the mill asylum pictures movie.
The part that stuck with me was their attempted escape from the hospital
Same here; I like it as well.
The part that is seared into my brain is the from the opening of scene where the camera dolly backward and we see Matilda Hiding in the dark above the bathroom door
Yes!!! Loved it too
I actually MISS this movie. I understand its not the best of movies, but honestly speaking THIS is the movie that should be remade by better people.
Hear Hear! I rather enjoyed this movie. It's fun. I wish they would make more fun horror movies. It'd be cool to see a new nightmare on elm street only with fun story lines like in Part 3 Dream Warriors
Tooth Fairy: Dont look at me uwu
Also Tooth Fairy: floats right in a kids face
Take the tooth and piss off lady
HAHAHAHAHAHGAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA
The thing that always stuck with me is her raid on the police station. It's always rare you see a horror movie go full Terminator, and have a national news event happen during its run time, but it almost always works great to flex the scope of what the movie can do. The police station has a kind of wonderful version of this, because the Tooth Fairy actually seems to have trouble attacking the police, expressing pain and fear as lights explode, and ultimately actually straight up getting shot in the face, breaking her mask in a way that actually seems to fuck with her. In a better movie, this is a game changing scene; YOU CAN SHOOT HER? Does that mean you could theoretically physically fight this thing?
Just a cool, creative scene and a good monster in a whatever movie.
Well, even if a bullet can hurt her, she _could_ just retreat until a better opportunity. It’s the light that makes it weak. Hence the ending of the movie.
If you wanna see another cool raid on a police station, watch Maniac Cop 2. Looks like some shit straight out of Terminator
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Yeah, that’s a good one.
@@acecashman1237 Maniac Cop 1 & 2, Jeepers Creepers, Halloween 4, Let Us Prey, and Assault on Precinct 13 are memorable ones
"YOU CAN SHOOT HER? Does that mean you could theoretically physically fight this thing? "
That may be where the protag gets the idea to FLAMING UPPERCUT A GHOST
So, I've had infrequent night terrors, and I can confirm that the shot of her hovering over the doorway is 100% sleep paralysis material. Whenever you see entities during an episode, they don't usually move quickly while you can see them (although I have heard loud, running foot steps, just never *seen* anything attached to them)
I legit still have an instinct of looking towards my ceiling where the light ends in horror at night hoping not to see her staring back from years of nightmares over that.
This one was notorious in Fangoria etc. at the time for having massive, massive changes done to it during production and filming, hence the scrapped monster design. Some further digging reveals that the Doug Jones version is from a script where the monster only fully appears in the final act (also, if you recall McFarlane doing horror action figures, they did a Darkness Falls Tooth Fairy figure that released at the time of the film...of the Doug Jones winged version), the poster has an R rating but it was released as PG-13, the score seems to be recycled into the adaptation of Michael Crichton's Timeline from 2003, and the existing film has a longer cut not available in any way but if you catch it on FX channel. Just a complete mess.
I really loved that Figure design
Darkness Falls walked so that Lights Out could run to a nearby light source.
"If Stephen King wrote a Guillermo Del Toro fanfic during his cocaine years." Sir, I applaud you. I literally explode-laughed and scared everyone in my house. Well done.
Thanks!
This should have been a Guillermo del toro film….or a Sam rami film.
what do you mean "his cocaine years"?
@@2st486 King had a HUGE coke dependency for much of the Eighties.
It's not that funny... mostly just accurate.
I gotta disagree with this, from a personal stand point, maybe because I’m a coward, this movie always revitalizes my fear of the dark, sometimes to a crippling point, even when I’ve seen the movie damn near thirty times, we get a good intro at the start that’s plants a haunting message and question in are heads followed by an immediate answer to said question, and although it breaks the monster movie rule of “wait to show the monster” it never takes away the spin tingling presence it comes with, with her blood curdling screech adding to that tension, the child actors did a great job of displaying fear, and the effects of exhaustion from being up and on edge damn near days at a time, the adult actors play there parts just as well, the look of fear when you have tangible evidence that something really is in the dark, what it looks like to be at your wits end when it comes to medical options, the forest, police station, and hospital scenes in that order, ramped up the tension and intensity at a balanced pace, and while the ending scene was arguably not needed, it had a job to do and that was leave the audience with a small grain size question of “Is it really gone”, something I personally think any good horror movie should do, plus the “gearing up” scene with flash lights in place of guns is always fun to watch, another thing the movie does right is “run”, from the beginning the plans is never to try and kill it but to out run or out last, with the killing being a type of “happy accident”, it was a last ditch stand and honestly a type of “F@&k it” moment, the design of the monster is kinda perfect she really could be in the darkest shadow of your room, she might be that large lumpy black thing that you think is a garbage bag, you don’t know till you turn the light on, the one thing that’ll make her run, the movie may not be perfect (to me it is) but what it does have going for it works, it’s entertaining and personally for me haunting. All the same love the videos man.
I 💯 agree !
I think my younger self was tricked into believing this was actually a good film because of how beautifully well-crafted some of the imagery is. I love the part when the nurse clad in white is seemingly sucked away by pure darkness.
I definitely don't think of this movie as terrible. I loved it when I was young, I loved it as a teen, and I still greatly enjoy it as an adult. Of course, that's probably nostalgia.
I still enjoy it now as an adult too even if it is because of nostalgia.
SAME
Nostalgia is a powerful thing I guess. I watched it once back in the day, hated it and instantly forgot about it. Until now.
Ditto
If you liked it, and still like it, then it’s not just nostalgia. One persons trash is another’s treasure.
The fact that the “Tooth Fairy’s” design predates the more famous del Toro-produced “Mama” and subsequent wispy, floaty horrors suggest that at least this film’s monster was a significant accomplishment. I did find there to be some genuine creepiness in this movie, but I also remember thinking that the film was trying waaaaay too hard to give Matilda a coherent backstory.
@@user-vn7ce5ig1z That’s sort of what I meant-the backstory was convoluted and weak. But it also was given quite a bit of screen time/exposition, and Matilda’s history was also used in “fake documentary”-style marketing videos, so. . . Some poor team spent significant time creating the “vintage” photographs, etc.
Yeah I loved the movie. Not one of my favorites but I went and rewatched it after having it in the back of my mind for a while since I was scared to death as a child watching it and I actually enjoyed it for the most part. Yeah it had cliches and it wasn't as scary or good as what I remembered but it didn't let me down like a lot of old movies I go back and rewatch and I enjoyed this one.
I've always had fond memories of this movie and it's very nostalgic. I don't think it's a bad horror movie by any means.
I haven't seen it in forever, but it was always a favorite of mine growing up.
Because of that first 15 mins, this movie scared the hell out of me and I've thought about it ever since
I must confess (even if it sounds ridiculous) that Ryan's videos, his voice, and his general entertaining demeanor has carried me thru some very rough times lately. Perhaps it's just the familiarity after being subscribed for so long or his engaging style but more than any other movie-related channel that I watch I have an instant sense of calm and peace when I see he has uploaded a new video. Big ups my YT friend, your work and dedication is a bright light in the murky underground I find myself in.
I hope things get better for you soon mate, and definitely agree.
It's like company in a strange way - very comforting, I've been going to sleep to his videos the past few nights
Honestly the opening scene still sticks with me to this day even though I've seen this film multiple times, and can't recall any other scene.
Also as a sufferer of sleep paralysis sometimes you will see a "hag lady" who yes, can look somewhat like this Tooth Fairy design. Frightening stuff 😬
Same! The beginning was so scary especially as a little kid,
People know this as "the movie with the evil monster tooth fairy", or "the movie where the guy Dragon Punches the monster at the end".
Pretty lame “Dragon Punch” he didn’t even scream shoryuken
@@at0micl0bster They probably couldn't afford the licensing rights.
I remember back when the film was first announced, with that gorgeously done creature suit that resembled a legitimate folklore bogeyman, so I was very disappointed when all of that was dropped and replaced with a brand new premise (a new script perhaps?) and a complete overhaul of the design. That said, the way she's filmed is quite beautiful, and her animatronic was even produced by Stan Winston's fx studio.
Her backstory is way convoluted and inconsistent though, and the way it's depicted in the film really shows that the story was altered last moment. I wish part of it could have been filmed as a prologue ala Ready or Not, with Matilda's backstory revealed bit by bit throughout the rest of the movie.
Sleep paralysis for me wasn’t about someone lurking over me or something in the shadows. It was the feeling of just being paralyzed & you couldn’t do a damn thing about it. You’re trapped between wakefulness & yet still in a deep sleep. It’s scary because you’re trying to tell your body what to do & it is simply not responding even tho u feel yourself to be fully awake & conscious.
Not only do I remember it, but it’s one of the very few scary movies I can’t rewatch, since it traumatized me during my formative years😂.
The bathroom scene when she’s lurking in the dark while he’s stuck in the tub haunted me for years, lmao.
I’m with you in that one. Years…
I'm glad I'm not the only one who spoke up about a fear of this movie. It might not normally be scary but if it hits any one of your triggers, like the dark is mine, holy crap...
I'm the opposite, thanks the Stephen King's The Shining where the dead woman is in the tub. To this day, I can't be in a bathroom at night where the shower curtain is closed, although it might help certain bathroom functions along. I was an adult when I first read the novel, and it still gave me that phobia. King is no stranger to the dark workings of the mind.
Ah, this is pretty nostalgic. My brother rented this all of the time from Blockbuster. The design of the Porcelain mask of the Tooth Fairy scared the hell out of me as a kid.
Great video, Ryan!
I watched this video as a kid too, right on the night I had lost a tooth. No lie. Scared the poop outta me and I had to get my sister to sleep next to me…
@@Romanticism-666 buddy, that excuse didnt work in court and its not gonna work here.
I often have sleep paralysis and I can say your comparison is spot on. Yes, sometimes we see figures like the tooth fairy in Darkness Falls, but not only that. Sleep paralysis isn't always the "can't move/something above you" combo. Sometimes you have vivid allucinations of being tossed around your bedroom, being used as tug of war by things you can barely see, and a lot of things that remind me of this movie.
Include random voices talking to you, giant black spiders crawling around your room, blue lights hopping around, the shadow man, etc. Once I had my fan turn into a gun, creepiest moment for me because of how long it took for my eyes to adjust. The worst for me was the tag team where I saw a black shadow man figure standing and watching me at the end of my bed followed by the same giant black spider I saw years back crawling around the room before disappearing into the closet. This one had me awake for a while and I had to have the lights on for 30 minutes before I could relax.
Holy shit the tug of war thing is so accurate. I’ve had the typical “there’s a presence in my room staring at me wtf” sleep paralysis but then I’ve had a shit ton of those getting knocked around and pulled off my bed and I always thought that was super weird.
Whenever I had night terrors as a kid, the most powerful emotion I experienced when I was coming out of it was guilt,
It was a horrifying crushing feeling of being covered in sweat in a total panic, thinking the world was ending or someone I loved was being hurt and it was totally all my fault.
If thats a common experience of night terrors then your man being blamed for his Mum’s death works pretty well
Guilt is extremely hard to deal with I hope you're ok now ! You perfectly described the feeling
The first ten minutes of this film is still the scariest in film history for me.
It's the fucking shrieking the Tooth Fairy makes paired with that simple but very creepy design with the ghostly black shroud and pale featureless mask
The fact she makes him watch her kill his mom and then he gets trapped in the bathroom. Rewatching it after so many years I can remember why this movie kept me up so many damn nights.
@@jesusrodriguez3728 For real, I think this was the film that made me afraid of the dark as a kid.
I saw it in theaters when it came out. It’s not as bad as tooth decay. 🦷
Yeah! Kyle as Tooth Decay sucked, I get why Mackey blew his lid
Debatable
People have lost family to tooth decay, m'kay
Same here, I liked it back then....it's been afew yrs since I've seen it now.
Is Tooth Decay a movie? Or do you mean tooth decay in general?
This movie absolutely terrified me as a kid and I distinctly remember trying to force myself to watch it over and over and leaving all of the lights on while doing so.
It stuck with me so much that I have even remembered it very vividly up until recently and never bothered to look it up since because I knew that it would ruin the nostalgic sort of absolute terror it gave me.
So it's a little heartbreaking in a way to see how bad it really was but I'm glad at least to know that it had potential to be something great and scary to little me
Man. I was absolutely terrified of Matilda as a kid. I needed a nightlight for over a year after watching this when I was eight.
This concept might actually do good as a remake with someone who actually cares about the material and will TRY to make a good film. I only watched it because it had a different premise and i was so sad to see how it turned out.
so bizzarely it actually has a comic version, which is odd as hell
I think Darkness Falls needs a remake but with a much better and reworked version of the original script and the original design of the Tooth Fairy and some elements from movies like The Babadook and Nightmare on Elm Street
Oh, yeah, the sleep paralysis comparison is definitely on the nose. I had these types of dreams a LOT growing up, well into my late 20s. There is even another name for these dreams: old hag syndrome. And your mind presents a really freaky image of a figure that's either at the foot of your bed or sitting on you. In my experiences, the face was more nightmare-ish but the figure clinging to darkness like the Tooth Fairy is a pretty good visual to compare it to. Hell, when I was little, I'd have nightmares of shifting shadows in my room and I used to think if I didn't move, they wouldn't see me. So, yeah, I had to sleep with a nightlight on because I was terrified of the dark and this movie is inadvertently a good visual of my night terrors and sleep paralysis as a little girl.
I've had random bits of sleep paralysis my whole life but luckily visual hallucinations are rare for me, but I almost always feel some kind of presence and I'll often get more audio hallucinations. The worst is when I've gotten it in hotels because those already don't feel super safe to begin with.
@Murphy Lazar I think sleeping on your back increases likelihood for sleep paralysis by a ton. I usually sleep on my side but most of the time I experience it I happen to be on my back
Wow, I have had those types of waking from sleep visions all my life. It's usually a dark figure standing at the foot of the bed, but the most recent one was right in my face, and it was menacing. I'll usually squeeze out a scream and disturb my spouse.
Ive had sleep paralysis a few times, for the most part they were just a weird feeling of being asleep but awake. The first deep breath I take usually would send it away. On one occasion I opened my eyes to see a creepy lady in a black wispy dress muttering things to herself and contorting her hands in strange ways. She faded away as I slowly gained consciousness before I realized it was just my curtains. Her hands were just the early morning sun shining on them as they blew in the breeze.
I've had multiple episodes of sleep paralysis, except I'm rarely ever paralyzed when I have them. I don't know which encounter was more terrifying, each leaves me shaking like a leaf. I've seen all kinds of stuff since I was 4 years old til today (28 now), here are some in no chronological order: an emaciated couple with leathery skin, no facial features and bloody slits on their chests standing next to my bed; a floating red mist; a floating grey mist; an evil man with glowing red eyes charging at my bed from the doorway; a golem made out of rags rising out of my bed towering over me (which I frantically thrashed with my feet and I could feel it as I kicked it, hallucinations you can feel are called tactile hallucinations); a snake hissing at me through my bedroom window; a man with a disfigured face and bright green eyes snarling at me through my bedroom window; an evil version of both my brother and I pulling me under the bed (they didn't actually pull me under the bed, it was a hallucination). Many times when I could feel it coming I'd keep my eyes shut and feel hands of different shapes and sizes tugging at my body parts - this is the one I have most.
Its crazy to think that our childhoods are connected by these type of movies even though we are countries and even seas apart. I remember going to a very local rental store here in Mexico and watching this movie as a kid, the intro scene gave me nightmares.
Take a shot every time Ryan says “hoiyever”
this movie absolutely terrified me when i was a kid
Never seen or even heard of this one, but the monster design is actually pretty neat in it's sinister simplicity. There's always something compelling about the use of traditional ghost bed sheets that look scary as heck, similar to the Dementors in Harry Potter or the Ringwraiths in LOTR.
I have both sleep paralysis and night terrors. The main "horror" part of the paralysis for me is the inability to call for help; I don't see entities or anything like that, but I get an overwhelming sense of impending doom and I'm desperate to call for help but physically cannot. Night terrors are just me screaming in my sleep until someone wakes me up. My spouse has told me that my sleep-screaming is sometimes raspy and almost strangled, which definitely sounds creepy (for my spouse, not for me... I'm asleep and don't notice it lol!).
When I was a kid I had nightmares like in the game Neverending Nightmares. It made terrified of sleeping in the dark as all my nightmares happened when there was zero light. At some point we accidentally left a light on and after that I realized that I need a small light source to not have any nightmares.
You have unlocked a forgotten memory; I used to draw creepy little tooth fairies because of this movie and would hang them up on my wall. Lets just say that my parents were super concerned for me. 😂
I would be worried, in any horror movie, when your kid starts doing that it means your whole family is about to die
Did you ever draw a picture of a man hurting another man in his neck with a screwdriver?
(Different movie reference)
This movie gave me nightmares when i was 7. I am embarrassed now.
@Anthony Lopez agh that beginning scene was horrifying!!!
Disney's Pinocchio gave me nigthmares as a toddler lol. Weird how I still grew up to be a horror buff
At least you're in the right genre. I was scared to death of ET. x'D
Don’t worry man it terrified me as well and scared to leave my bathroom in the dark
Don’t be embarrassed! The concept of a creature that will kill you in the dark if you happen to see them is spooky as heck. Like the video states, the Darkness Falls’ Tooth Fairy is a cool concept with unfortunate execution.
This movie specifically terrified the shit out of me as a kid. I remember being fucked for like a whole year whenever I was in the dark.
This movie terrified me as a kid, but I kept watching it over and over again.
I really liked this movie as a kid. With that mindset, a cool monster is a cool monster. Even still. I did have a grasp and interest for great horror movies like IT and The Exorcist, but as a kid looking to be entertained, these were hardly watchable and boring, yea I grew to appreciate them later on. The role darkness falls filled for me was a spooky horror movie with a cool monster that was easy to understand and that's all I asked for.
This is a huge guilty pleasure for me and my sister. Getting home from blockbuster with snacks and popcorn ready to go and we watched with our cousin and we were terrified from that beginning bathroom stare scene….
An obvious lie for likes sake, blockbuster was dead as the dodo by this point. Unless.you live in Alaska and havnt heard of torrenting before.
@@joenugent9508 No, that's not true. Where I'm from (continental US, western states) there were 2 or 3 Blockbusters in my state up until about 2012
@@joenugent9508 Darkness Falls came out in 2003 you idiot. Yes, blockbusters were still around...
Another thing that kills me about this movie is how the rules change on a whim. In the beginning, the light is like a concrete barrier to her. She can’t come in it at all, so you are safe in the light. Somewhere in the middle, she starts briefly coming into the light, like just for a second to snatch someone away. By the end, she is able to bust lightbulbs and cause batteries to die. It’s like, why didn’t she think of busting out the lightbulbs in the beginning when she wanted to get to the boy in the bathtub???? The movie could have been over in 5 minutes and would have been much better.
This was an early horror film I saw in my life and it scared me for years and even made me afraid of the dark for a little bit
I loved Darkness Falls! Yes it’s a stupidly bad movie but to a 12 year old me it was wonderful 😂😂😂
I kinda love stupidly bad movies
This movie traumatized me as a child about opening one's eyes in your dark bedroom at night.
I was looking for a comment like this. This movie scared the shit out of me. My family was crazy for leting a 6 to 7 years old watch this movie. Couldn't be in the dark for a long time
@@vitoria-1995 That's some spartan training for ya)
There was no "vague recollection" seeing that poster brings back LONG nights as a too young child suddenly fearing losing his last tooth.
My sister bought the dvd to freak me out lmao
this movie scared the absolute crap out of my mom when she saw it for the first time (she drove home with her car lights on after watching it) and it was actually one of the main reasons I started sleeping with a face mask. Can't kill me for looking at her when my eyes are constantly covered haha
Matilda seems to be a female candyman
Ryan, have you ever considered writing a book? Honestly, you have one of the most beautiful and well-constructed sentences I've ever heard.
I'd love to read that!
@@breadpilled2587 im genuinely hoping that he does or at least something of sorts
I used to always experience sleep paralysis as a kid, and even to this day - during fevers and ironically when I'm sleep-deprived.
It's harrowing.
I can't describe what I see, just how they always seem to be laughing at me.
And it feels awful, because I just want to sleep, and my body is already there, but my mind thinks it's trapped and screaming. I wiggle my feet to get out of it, and on and on it goes until I can actually fall asleep for real.
I've seen that movie in my teenage years and it left a mark on me. Later that year I ate mushrooms and had a "bad digestion". I saw the witch mask in every dark corners for the entire night.
I had a night terror once. When I woke up, it was storming outside. I liked storms back then. They were spectacular displays of power and always made me feel humble and awed. But, there was a heaviness in the room that I didn't normally feel. There was a thrumming sound reverberating as well. Then I saw a pair of red eyes at the foot of my bed and they were surrounded by fibrous darkness, even more than the normal darkness. And it was growing, spreading to cover my entire room, hovering over me and smiling. I couldn't see a mouth, but i knew it was smiling. I tried to move, tried to sit up, tried to talk but was paralyzed. It slid over me and across my room into my open closet where I saw its red eyes wink out one at a time as it turned its head away. Then I woke up for real and wrote a note, which I still have, that says "this really happened." Thankfully, it never happened again. I've mined a ton of short stories off that single experience.
How convenient. A writer who has a single night terror (which is pretty much unheard of in terms of night terrors) then mines it for material. Cool story, bruh.
"Remember that movie about the evil tooth fairy?"
Which one? I remember like 20 of them by now.
i remember this movie mostly because my oldest cousin was a fan of it when we were young teens (we both would have been 14ish when it came out), and because, as someone who was terrified of the dark at the time, i remember thinking the main character's house as an adult, with all the extra precautions taken to ward off darkness was just. Living The Dream
Fun fact, as a child I watch horror movies with my dad and I watched this one when it was released on vhs and I won't lie, it broke me at the time. I'm writing this as you talk because I started this a minute and a half into the video and can hear you talking about how bad this film is but it genuinely terrified me as a kid. I actually couldn't take a bath without my mom in the room because I was afraid she'd die while I was in there. Then again, I was 5 at most at the time so my judgment couldn't have been trusted.
As someone who has experienced night terrors for my whole life, I can’t say this exemplifies my personal experience.
I get them on an almost daily basis, and it usually involves me feeling as though I’m either being attacked, being watched, or surrounded by small creatures such as insects.
I have a gaming chair right next to my bed, and on a few occasions I’ve woken up imagining someone sitting in it, staring at me, leading me to start kicking and screaming.
On other occasions I’ve imagined something like an insect on top of me or on my bedside cabinet, and I start smashing with my fist whatever it is.
Back when I used to be in a relationship, my girlfriend would constantly tell me about how I would get really defensive in my sleep and clench my fists and make angry grunting noises like I was Wolverine or some shit (keep in mind I’m absolutely pathetic in real life).
She would usually need to calm me down and remind me what I was imagining wasn’t real.
Now that I’m back sleeping on my own again I’ve been suffering from insomnia since I’m so reluctant to plunge myself back into those nightmares.
I can’t keep a consistent sleep schedule because if I go to bed early I usually wake up after a couple of hours from a night terrors, so I usually just awake for as long as possible and pass out so that I’m in a deep enough sleep that I don’t wake up.
My doctor advised against sleep medication as apparently a lot of them cause more vivid dreams.
I suppose something the film does get right is that when you experience night terrors and imagine figures it is usually because of the darkness that you can’t make out shapes and your mind creates some to fill in the space.
I guess the film portrays that with the fairy being this ever-shifting mass always lurking in the darkness.
Oh man, the insects. Those are the worst, because when I open my eyes to see a large spider or centipede skittering across my pillow theres a damn good chance in my house that it's real. I have to turn on the light and shake out the covers. My spouse really hates that. At least with the shadowy figures I might get out a yell and go back to sleep.
About the nightmares, some of mine were so awful when I was younger that I dreaded going to sleep. But if you see them as a way for your unconscious mind to work out past traumas they might become easier to handle. I take trazadone and melatonin to get me to sleep, and I love the vivid dreams, even the disturbing ones are useful. If they are bad enough, nothing can keep me asleep.
@Murphy Lazar No, sorry to say. It’s kind of a haze when I wake up, and I usually bolt up and get ready to defend myself.
@@garyking1986 Wow, I don't have them on a daily bases but I've been "attacked" as well. The most terrifying one (because it was so close and felt so real) was a huge golem made out of rags rising up from the middle of my bed towering over me. My first instinct was to thrash it with my feet and as I kicked it I could *feel* it, it was hard as steel and when I woke up the heel of my right foot was sore as if I had kicked something hard (probably the wall next to my bed, hopefully?). Another time a man with glowing red eyes charged at me from my door and I put up my hands to defend myself but then it disappeared. Even though these weren't the "creepiest" I have seen, they were definitely the most terrifying because the feeling of being attacked felt so authentic. I'm more often than not *not* paralyzed when I have these unlike many people.
'for being suspected of murdering his mother' I can imagine saying 'the Tooth Fairy killed my mom' will be viewed as an unlikely possibility. Santa Claus on the other hand.
So I had night terrors as a child for around 3-4 years in a row every single night. the thing with night terrors is you don't remember anything when you wake up but when you fall asleep it's the worst thing you could ever imagine x1000 and causes you to scream non stop unable to wake up just till you do and don't remember a single thing that happened in the dream or what happened that night
Ryan so glad you covered this movie! My dad and I watched this when I was a kid. It was one of my first introductions to horror!
I still think the opener is such a stronger mission statement that the rest of the film can't live up to it.
This “generic slice of heavily-panned early 2000’s supernatural Hollywood schlock” is more effective than some recent horror films 🤷🏾♂️😂
Maybe is just nostalgia talking
@@Malum09 That too 😅
@@Malum09 Or maybe the average movie goer is an idiot.
One of the two...
This movie was one of the better horror movies when it came out, and it's still better than most horror movies coming out today.
The only "bad" thing about the movie was that the backstory of Matilda was kinda weak.
@@Malum09 It could be, people are generally a bit more forgiving with a movie as time passes because it reminds them of that era as a whole, good or bad. Spider-Man 3 got absolutely slated at the time of it's release but nowadays emo/bully Peter is getting a lot of popularity now because people realised it was supposed to be cringeworthy on purpose because it was Peter's idea of "cool" not necessarily the movie trying to actually make him cool.
I've had sleep paralysis a few times. It is so strange what you "see". Two times I saw a dark, humanoid shadow enter my room. Once it just stared at me. The other time it crouched next to my bed then sat on the bed.
Now regarding this movie, there are definitely moments that made me uneasy.
I have suffered from sleep paralysis since I was a teenager. It’s a genuinely terrifying thing to experience and in at least my case the faceless female ‘entity’ that stays on the edges of my periphery and tortures me is something that has given me nightmares for decades.
My husband has night terrors and has certainly had vivid "visions" during them. Two examples I can remember are one where he saw a shadowy figure walk across our bedroom and out into the hall (he got out of bed and chased after them), and one where he saw a "giant" reaching in through the window and trying to take things from my dressing table.
Me: *working*
CZcams: *Ryan dropped another video!*
Me: Guess I'm done now.
Ryan--can we get Omen or Let the Right One In next?
In fact, I do remember this. I even remember seeing the trailers advertising it. I remember watching it and... being a little disappointed in the final result.
I personally thought the "final" design of the monster was a letdown. A woman with burn scarring that could float around seemed like a very uncreative payoff. Seeing those images of the original design feels... a little validating to be honest.
Even so, there was something about this movie that stuck with me. I haven't seen this movie in probably 15 years at least but this video reminded me of it, so it's still stuck with me even after all this time.
The opening scene is rightfully complimented by other comments, it's a great little mini-horror film but here's what hooked me into going through the whole movie: the opening of the scene between the young Kyle and young Caitlin. After he loses his tooth, she sneaks in through his window (which proves she was keeper, how many girls did YOU ever know who would sneak into YOUR window?), she gives him a kiss & I believe says this line: "A first kiss shouldn't taste like blood." Then she leaves & the nightmare begins.
Something about this exchange always drew me in. Perhaps because the young actors in this scene had real chemistry. Maybe because I was close to the same age at the time but it struck a chord, especially when their mutual friend later says (just before getting killed), "She never got over you, you know. Even after you were locked up, all of these years, she never got over you," or something like that. It feels like a better written version of this movie could've been a very touching love story.
Building on Ryan's point, the relationship is a strong thread that the film does NOTHING with, beyond the final shot of our three survivors together like a sorta-family unit that unfortunately the film has done very very little to build up.
It's another case in point of a Horror film that focuses too much on "set pieces" instead of telling a Story.
And I'm surprised no one has mentioned the final scene: The movie jumps away from our characters, forgetting them completely, going to a kid we've never seen before who has lost their tooth & we see their mother wish them good night & slip a coin in place for the tooth, then the movie ends....
It's like an Anti-final scare scene... which unique to say the least.
It doesn't set up any sequel or anything, it just happens and ends. I kind of like the scene as a sort of comforting decompressor that reminds it's audience that "It's okay, it's only a movie. Have a safe ride home." I must admit I kind of like that & wish more films ended on such a note.... but it's still an odd finish.
Thank You for Reading.
Honestly speaking this movie is one that really SHOULD be rebooted with a better person at the helm. It's a fantastic concept and it is one of my more favorite horror movies. There is actually another movie, (actually several) that go with this night terror concept. There was one with closets where a chick gets kidnapped into the demon realm to be eaten(They?). Then there is that awful video game movie adaptation.(Doesn't this movie and Alone in the dark have extremely similar shots?) But out of them Darkness Falls was the only one that really got me.
It has an interesting premise which really should have been explored more. Like maybe just for instance, the witch/tooth fairy ONLY comes after the descendants of those that killed her. So it would make more sense why these two specific people were attacked. Then because it is localized in the town why out guy doesn't get attacked because at the time he was sent upstate while the town built a better hospital after he had been shipped out. I mean the BONES are there for a fantastic story. And like this guys says its just the execution that fails.
@@mariawhite7337 Yep, the film is almost a Masterclass in everything NOT TO DO with a solid concept, which drives the creativity to imagine what it might look like if Remade & done better... but sadly that's unlikely to ever happen.
I saw it on TV and it made me fear the dark for years…
Ryan saying that the cover might remind us, 100% accurate in my case.
Excellent video as always.
Sleep paralysis is wild, I did see some creepy shit but I couldn’t make out any of the features on the figures I saw. The scariest thing I saw was this faceless old woman at the foot of my bed. It actually looked a lot like the original design for the tooth fairy in this movie ironically
I had a strange encounter with this movie once. I caught it playing on TV once and I watched it but I couldn’t remember what exactly the story was about or why the monster was attacking or her backstory. I could remember the mother getting killed at the start and then attacking the hospital staff and the main guy being so scared of the dark he always needs a light source around. Every time I tried to recall anything, it’s muted because I literally can’t remember any of the lines was said. Not because I blocked it all out, but because I really didn’t remember it at all! In fact I actually didn’t know Matilda was supposed to be a tooth fairy, and this is the first time I learned the title of the movie!
This was the first horror movie that my parents let me watch. It holds a special place in my heart.
I haven't seen the movie and this might be a stretch, but it sounds like having 2 main characters with mental illness that are "treated" with unnecessary drugs and invasive procedures while being ignored by the general public when they're not being blamed for things they didn't do while they're the only people who understand what's actually going on unintentionally and ironically makes or at least could have made the film a somewhat decent exploration of PTSD and trauma.
Of course, the fact that not even the director cared about the movie kind of ruins it.
Hahahahah when I first saw it I used to tell EVERYONE that it was the scariest movie ever!! I was afraid of the dark for a long time after watching it... in 2019 I found the DVD and decided to watch it again expecting to fell the same... it was horrible hahaha, couldn't even finish it
I remember this movie as the movie everyone in my after-school daycare used to talk about like it was the scariest thing ever
"...And then the tooth fairy makes a castle of the dead kids teeth".
Just like pet cemetery; "and then the little boys shoe falls down the screen all bloody with his foot still in it"
I can still hear those kids scaring eachother (and me) senseless with scenes from those movies.
I've still never seen either these movies, probably from trauma, so I have no actual idea if these scenes even exist,
But this movie looks WAY less scarier than I imagined it as a 7 year old.
I watched this with my older siblings when I was younger we were all so scared we never watched it again. Especially the opening scenes because I knew I would lose my teeth soon and my bathroom was scarier than my bedroom. Love to see it in a different light now.
The best Toothfairy Horror movie Is the opening Of Hellboy 2
I remember loving this movie when I was child and teen! I definitely need to watch now as an adult! Did anyone else play the Darkness Falls game! I think it was a mini game on their official site? You have to get out of the building by using a certain amount of glow sticks and you couldn’t step into the darkness cause the tooth fairy would kill you?
I used to get sleep paralysis a fair bit in my early teens (playing video games before bed, bad idea). Seriously did wake up one night with something very similar looking to Matilda just hovering a few inches above me. That was probably my most vivid episode.
Nothing scarier than your own mind
Been forever since I’ve seen this but it’s basically the original My Bloody Valentine. Childhood trauma, mental institute, comes back to home town and murders begin again, everyone suspects the character as being the killer, viewer suspicion that the character is in mental crisis and dissociating, and then finally it is revealed he is fine and it was someone else. (The 2009 ending is different)
One of the most unintentionally hilarious horror films I'd seen at the time; whenever Matilda carried someone off into the shadows I'd start giggling because it was so corny. I do remember thinking how much more compelling it could have been - anything involving an individual that COLLECTS TEETH, human or otherwise, always has amazing creep factor potential, especially when they commit to going either full "folk horror" or opt for a Blair Witch angle.
Yes, yes, yes! Somebody else remembers this film. What a wild concept.
I have seen this movie countless times in my youth. I liked the movie a lot. I do feel I need to point out that while it IS mentioned that Michael also lost his last tooth, it is mentioned briefly when Kyle talks to Caitlyn about her brother's phobia and she shows him Michael's drawings of an eerily similar creature. He immediately gets PTSD flashbacks and asks her if Michael lost a tooth, and she says "yes, his last one," and points out that the Tooth Fairy curse is nothing more than a story to scare little kids.
I don't have sleep paralysis or night terrors. I have, however, had these recurring incidents where I wake in the middle of the night, with the feeling that something is staring at me and waiting for me to turn over and look at it.
This is the first memory of a horror movie I ever had. Probably 9 when I watched it at my aunt's house. Now, it's more of a comedic memory.
I saw the title and excitedly said DARKNESS FALLS!! And clicked
I dealt with night terrors and sleep paralysis for decades. The paralysis one terrified me the first time it happened but then I looked into it. Because I knew exactly what was causing it I've managed to stay calm any time it's happened since. And night terrors are literally sleep walking through the worst thing you can imagine, so you end up incorporating the real world. Like I looked wide awake and was screaming at my real mother to run because there was a creature behind her, but nope completely asleep, and a very confused mum. Though because I would sometimes have the same ones over and over I learned how to recognize when I'm asleep regardless of how mundane the dream is, so now if I'm having a really bad one I can force myself to wake up instead of feeling trapped. Still have bad nightmares but at least now I can make them stop before I get to the sleep walking part.
I saw this movie when I was really little.
I remember watching it with my parents on the couch with the lights off and I started crying and saying how I didn’t want the tooth fairy to get me and kill me. They had to convince me that it wasn’t real once the movie was over.
I kinda like this movie. It’s not awful, but it is messy. Lot of inconsistencies.
Also, the design of the creature was much better originally, than what they wound up using.
I remember seeing an ad for a McFarland figure for the original design in a magazine (Fangoria maybe?) and getting really excited about the film. I was so confused when I finally saw it in the theater.
Re: sleep paralysis, for anyone wanting some cursed knowledge... you can trigger it by waking up at the exact moment you start drifting off. The best way I can describe it is to keep your mind alert so you're not actually asleep, but you do have to let yourself nod off nearly to the point of dozing. It'll feel like trying to run in a dream at first, and then it'll feel like you're in a vat of cement that's sealing up fast all around you. You can see and hear, you're totally aware, but you can't move.
The kind of dreams/nightmares you get with sleep paralysis can be really terrible, especially if you start to feel like there's someone in the room with you. I felt that way once and it was a harrowing experience, but that was also the only time I ever managed to wake myself up from it.
It's funny now thinking about how scared out of my mind I was, but at the time it really felt like there was something huge sitting just to the right of my bed edging in closer and closer until I'd have no choice but to look at it. I woke up swiping my arm out like I was opening the curtains -- or like I was trying to slap a demon lmao.
Now when I get restless and I wake myself up as I'm falling asleep, I make the extra effort to really wake up so I don't fall under and get stuck. It's too freaky not knowing if you'll wake up before the thing in the dark gets you.
Not that there actually is something there. It just sure feels like there is.
The closest I think I've ever been to sleep paralysis, was a time I was about to start sleeping in class and woke up only to find that everyone had one arm noticable longer than the other arm(I was awake and could move to check my right arm was long as well).
I used to get sleep paralysis, although it has faded since I have gotten older (and strangely have not had it since I moved from my old house). The things I saw ranged from vivid and almost indiscernible from reality (childhood) to static, entirely black, wispy, twisted humanoids that would pull themselves from the wall (this was what I saw more recently, often). The tooth fairy of this movie is similar to those vestiges, minus the white face. Mine were just totally black in color. Mine were accompanied with white noise combined with whispering and raspy screaming, which was what came first, but I attribute that to damaged ears from early childhood. Affects everyone differently.
I remember this. "Dont be Afraid of the Dark" was soooooo much scarier of a tooth fairy movie.
The ending of that one was so very sad. :(
I ain’t afraid to say that this movie scared the hell out of me when I was a kid😂
"...one of those forgotten films of the era that's probably living dormant in the back of your mind from your younger years..."
Hah! I wish! I vividly remember an unjustifiable amount of this movie despite only seeing it once on late night television when I was a tween.
my mom fell asleep while watching this in the living room when i was a kid and i remember just sitting in front of the tv watching it with my mouth hung open. i dont remember anything about the story but the monster freaked me out. i kept having dreams of it flying after us in the car at night