Against the Night

From the beginning the acting was so forced and cheesy I could barely get through half of the movie. It was like a really bad graveyard encounters knock off except not scary at all.

And notwithstanding the "circle jerk" that the user review forum usually is this is a decent movie. It starts of annoyingly enough but gets good in the second half had has a BAM ending.

For a low budget modern horror movie, the production quality is great, the acting is good enough, and the premise works.

Where does it go wrong then?

First, it's not scary. There is no suspense and the movie takes itself seriously, so there should be some.

Second, the death sequences are dry and lame. The screen will go black and someone will randomly go missing. That's it. No payoff, no terror.

Third, they rely on the found footage aspect when it's not needed. The a/v is well done otherwise and this does not make it more effective. The majority of the movie ends up being a plain black screen about 25 minutes in.

This could have been successful, but falls completely flat.

But this film is a real stinker. Nothing redeeming whatsoever about any of the characters. Directionless. Took me multiple attempts to watch it all the way through. Don't waste your time. As the other reviewer mentioned it comes across as a terrible Grave Encounters ripoff.

It's a bunch of college kids running around in the dark screaming. It was filmed in total darkness so there's not much to see for most of the movie. . There's some t & a but you can see that anywhere so there's no point in wasting an hour and a half watching this pile of garbage.