THE DARK AREA is actually nothing more than a little video, made by some school kids. The story is uninteresting and stupid (and mostly stolen from the much better BLAIR WITCH PROJECT), acting is way, WAY past "bad", lighting is poor and there is zero atmosphere. Well, you can't actually blame those people. they made their little movie, and the local cinema showed it so friends and family could tell them how great it was despite the fact that it sucks.
So far so good.
The majority of the world would never have heard anything about THE DARK AREA and that would have been no loss. But some small backyard company decided to publish it and make it accessible to the public. Those guys are to blame for DARK AREA is not a real movie (see above).
If you see the DARK AREA DVD (or video, or whatever) avoid it at all cost. It is not worth a penny !