Wednesday Review: The Darkness

Jason Blum returns with another idiotic movie embodying everything I hate about his studio. The story is the generic tale of a family being attacked by demons. Rather than a traditional plot summary and review, I have literally decided to just make a list of things I hate about this movie:
1) The entire family in this movie seems to be defined exclusively by their dysfunctions. The son has autism (which the movie implies attracts spirits), the daughter is bulimic, the mother is an alcoholic, and the father had an affair. None of these characters seem to have any real identity outside of these traits, and only the autism plays any role in the plot.

2) While I'm a High Functioning Autistic, and have little experience with my Low Functioning counter-parts, the portrayal of young Michael seems inconsistent. There are plenty of scenes which make it clear that he's perfectly verbal, but when he says something unsettling his parents make no effort to get him to elaborate.

3) The demons attacking the family were apparently responsible for the destruction of the Anasazi civilization. However, the Anasazi trapped them in five stones. Did they destroy the civilization from inside the stones? If so, what was the point of trapping them? Had the damage already been done when they were trapped? I need some serious elaboration here.

4) When will Hollywood learn that you can either use the real legends and mythology of a real ethnic group, or you can just make up a fake ethnic group. Call me an SJW, but taking a real Native American group (albeit one that no longer exists) and claiming they believed your fictional mythology seems both racist, and stupid. I seriously doubt that the Anasazi believed that their gods turned evil, started abducting children, but were trapped by their shaman in five stones.

5) One scene references multiple people having been killed by these spirits, apparently after removing the stones from their cave. How did the stones get back?

6) When the family needs an exorcism they find a Hopi woman. This makes sense. I checked and the Hopi do appear to be one of the Tribes descended from the Anasazi. However, this woman addresses the spirits in Spanish, a language that was not spoken in the New World until hundreds of years after they had been locked away. Granted she may not speak the language of the Anasazi, but at least speaking to them in Hopi would be the correct language family. If the spirits can speak any language, why not address them in English?

...and the final, biggest problem I had with this movie was (opens the envelop):
7) Not one single moment in the entire film is actually scary, suspenseful, or frightening in any way!