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Fox Family Channel original movie Starring: Suzanne Somers, Timothy Busfield, Ryan DeBoer, Meghan Ory, Martin Sheen, and Tippi Hedren. Rating: TV-PG Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller Plot: A...
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Feb 14, 1999 · The Darklings: Directed by Jeffrey Reiner. With Suzanne Somers, Timothy Busfield, Ryan DeBoer, Meghan Ory. A bed-ridden teen believes he has witnessed the murder of one of his neighbors. When no body is found, he then recruits friends to attempt to prove the death.
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- Crime, Drama, Horror
- Jeffrey Reiner
- 1999-02-14
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- Society
- History
- Appendix
Darklings typically wore full-body-covering clothing when exposure to light was a risk. Darkling elders were transformed into a taller, fairer form, likened to that of a grey-skinned elf.
Darklings were not evil, but they also are not inclined to follow laws, often working as thieves and assassins. They retained a fey fondness for art and nature, occasionally risking the light to glimpse a sunset, or the colors of a painting or jewel.
Darklings possessed both darkvision and, more pertinently, blindsight. Unlike many fey, they possessed no great magical abilities; darkling elders could cast darknessonce between each rest. Unsurprisingly, they had poor vision while in bright light. However, when a darkling died, all the light it had absorbed over its lifetime was released in a sud...
Darklings typically used daggers in their work as assassins or when they needed to fight, though the deadlier darkling elders favored shortswords.
Darklings typically settled in isolated chambers and caverns beneath settlements of other peoples. Particularly wise and respected darklings could undergo a transform ritual, during which other elders inked glowing tattoos on the supplicant's body that channeled some of the supplicant's absorbed light away from their body. If successful, the suppli...
It was told in legends that a seelie fey, whose real name had been erased from history, betrayed the Summer Queen. In her wrath, she cursed him and his entire house. He became known in those stories as Dubh Catha, or "Dark Crow". His descendants, and those of his house, were then known as the dubh sith, or "darklings".
See Also
1. Shadar-kai (fey), another cursed species of fey.
For the athletic teen, being bedridden is a fate worse than death. And he thinks he's witnessed a killing when, watching from his window, he sees what he believes is the fatal stabbing of the town's sweetest resident at the hand of a neighbor.
A bedridden boy (Ryan de Boer) tries to convince his grandmother that he witnessed a woman's (Suzanne Somers) murder in a new neighbor's (Timothy...
- Jeffrey Reiner
- Mystery & Thriller
- Ryan Deboer
The Darklings (TV Movie 1999) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
The Darklings. 1999. 2 hr 0 mins. Drama, Horror, Suspense. NR. Watchlist. A bedridden boy (Ryan de Boer) believes he's witnessed the murder of a neighbor (Suzanne Somers) by a new neighbor...
