This had such a great premise... :(

I agree for the most part. I never liked Hayden Christiansen as an actor anyway but in this role he was ok. Ms newton however was as you said a bit over the top with the gun scene. And the wailing and crying. I could understand it given the loss of the child however don't feel that the acting was good and I think that she was a bit stiff and she could've been a much better job as far as the rest of the movie goes I wasn't so Impressed just because there were so many plotholes. I almost feel like it was supposed to be version of the rapture and these people were the leftovers. I I'm just confused. My favorite part of the movie was when he is asked "then why does this truck work?" and He replies "because it's a Chevy"

yeah usually like her movies I don't like Hayden however, except for Star Wars and even then that goes pretty much saying that he peaked there. But am yeah I don't I really don't understand.Id like to see a vanishing on 8th street where they explain what happened on seventh street

I agree it was a great idea but they should have just set fire to more stuff and shouldve had candles everywhere. I was also a little bugged cos they didnt put the car interior light on, even though it seemed they didnt need it, but in that situation you want as much light as possible.

3. Yeah they overdid the flickering light effects every two minutes.

5. Odd I didn't even think to try fire until she does.

I agree. This movie has an awesome idea but it flounders due to a mediocre screenplay.

The characters are mostly morons. Hayden acts skeptical of John Leguizamo's story, even though it's the third day of this post-apocalyptic nightmare and Hayden has witnessed exactly what he's saying firsthand. The kid pretty much got multiple characters killed, though if he did that to me, I'd leave his ass in a heartbeat instead of trying to go rescue him.

The rules of the movie are very inconsistent. Sometimes, people vanish the very instant the lights go out. Other times, however, characters have upwards of 30 seconds to scramble to safety while the darkness leisurely pursues them. Also, it's shown that characters can be saved from the darkness by a single small lit cigarette, yet one character vanishes when he has lit candles with 10 feet of him, and another vanishes with light still on him as he lays on a table.

Another thing that annoyed me was the whole Roanoke Island mystery tie-in. The Roanoke Island mystery was solved decades ago, with scientists and historians agreeing that the Roanoke settlers were facing starvation and disease and that they just up and abandoned their settlement to live with nearby Algonquin native Americans on Croatoan Island. I know it's a movie, but it's just lame that people act like there was some crazy supernatural phenomena behind something that is grounded in reality. But even in this film's universe, it makes no sense; why did it only happen to a small village in 1588, but affect the entire world in 2010? And the word "Croatoan" comes from an island nearby the Roanoke colony. So, did these demon ghost shadows go around carving the word "Croatoan" into things? Maybe they really had a thing for North Carolina...

Even the title is stupid. It implies it only happened on 7th Street, which would've made sense if we wanted to tie it to the Roanoke mystery since both happened in one isolated area. And they never even mention 7th street at all!