Darkness Lives

Darkness Lives is a 2015 supernatural thriller film directed by Robert Fredrickson from a screenplay written by Oren Moverman and Kenneth Lonergan. It stars Billy Crudup as a church worker dealing with the sudden closing of the church he works at. While dealing with this loss he finds a pair of eyeglasses, only to find that some people are demons in disguise, leading to him and some others banding together to exorcise the demons to where they came from. It also features the voices of Matthew Broderick, AnnaSophia Robb, Rhys Ifans, Leslie Mann, Russell Peters, and Mads Mikkelsen.

The film was animated by Silver Link in Japan and produced by Reliance Entertainment and Cross Creek Pictures. Focus Features distributed it through their then recently re-established Gramercy Pictures genre label. Darkness Lives premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 15, 2015, and was released to theaters in the United States on October 16, 2015. It grossed $184.4 million against a budget of $40 million and received generally positive reviews from critics for it's characters, animation and homage to John Carpenter's works. It was the highest grossing R-rated animated film prior to the release of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train in 2020.

Release
Darkness Lives had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 15, 2015, followed by an additional screening at the New York Film Festival on September 26. Gramercy Pictures later released it to theaters on October 16, 2015

Home media
Darkness Lives was made available for digital download in the U.S. on February 9, 2016 and was later released on DVD and Blu-ray on February 16, 2016 by Universal Pictures Home Entertainment.