“Darker Than Night” (** out of four) was a moody but mild horror story about a young blind woman (Bea Santos) who spends the weekend in a countryside getaway with a few friends (Erik Knudsen, Melinda Shankar, and others) but soon comes to suspect that one of them is a deranged killer when strange occurrences begin happening and murders start piling up. Holds your attention with it’s melancholy atmosphere and strong lead performance from Santos but impatience rather than tension is aroused, especially in the second half when it becomes pretty apparent who the killer is. A story about a blind woman is only so effective when the killer is too easy to see.

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