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Director
  
Leif Jonker

Genres
  
Horror, B movie

Writer
  
Leif Jonker

Language
  
English

5.6/10
IMDb

Budget
  
5,000 USD

Duration
  

Country
  
United States

Darkness (1993 film) movie poster

Release date
  
1993 (1993)

Cast
  
Randall Aviks, Michael Gisick, Cena Donham, Lisa Franz, Bill Hooper

Similar movies
  
Vampires: The Turning (2005), Vampires (1998), The Forsaken (2001), Blood Bath (1966), The Return of the Vampire (1944)

Tagline
  
Even the dead will scream.

Darkness the vampire version 1993 dvd trailer


Darkness, also known as Darkness: The Vampire Version and Leif Jonker's Darkness, is a 1993 American independent horror film written, produced, edited and directed by Leif Jonker and starring Gary Miller, Randall Aviks and Mike Gisick. The film was heavily circulated on the underground horror circuit and is famous for having a large number of exploding heads in it, more than any previous film of the genre. The special effects were created by Leif Jonker and Miller, who plays a vampire hunter.

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Synopsis

When a group of boys come home after a concert they find plenty of reasons to be afraid of the dark. From the shadows of the night a legion of human-like bloodthirsty vampires breaks. The boys arm themselves to the teeth with chainsaws, machetes, guns and holy water. A pitched battle between the living and the undead is prepared. When the dawn is near, all eyes of humanity head towards a face that overwhelms even the dead.

Cast

  • Gary Miller as Tobe
  • Randall Aviks as Liven
  • Mike Gisick as Greg
  • Cena Donham as Kelly
  • Steve Brown as Jodie
  • Lisa Franz as Dianne
  • Bill Hooper as Glenn
  • Production

    Jonker wrote the script when he was 17 years old and began production a year later, in 1988. After four days of shooting, he abandoned the production. He returned to it in 1989 with a new cast and a budget under $5000. Jonker finished post-production in 1991, two and a half years after he began it.

    Reception

    Bloody Disgusting rated it 3/5 stars and called it a "diamond in the rough" that has attained a cult following for its gore. Scott Weinberg of DVD Talk rated it 2/5 stars and wrote, "Lief Jonker's Darkness is one of the cheapest, silliest, and splatteriest no-budget horror flicks you're ever likely to come across.". Brett Cullum of DVD Verdict wrote, "Despite any shortcomings, this is a movie made by horror film fans for their peers. You can feel the passion seeping off the screen, and somehow a movie that should be fodder for the Mystery Science Theatre 3000 becomes a rollicking good time."

    Horrorhound.com named it "the goriest vampire film of all time".

    References

    Darkness (1993 film) Wikipedia
    Darkness (1993 film) IMDb Darkness (1993 film) themoviedb.org