The Overnight

After an accident disrupts their trip, a couple finds themselves stranded at a strange hotel where they notice the strange behavior of the guests staying there are caught in a time-loop brought about by a demonic curse on the building requiring one of them to be sacrificed and must try to get away alive.

This one wasn't all that great and had some big issues with it. The main drawback on display is the generally unappealing and highly dragging pace that makes for a truly unengaging feature to get into. This takes forever to get going as hardly anything that attempts to bring about a sense of comfort to the heroes makes them likable, with a lame trip to an antique store that goes nowhere to taking forever to realize the car troubles mean they're stranded in the countryside at the hotel and is helped along in no small part by the utterly asinine storyline of the couple that has no business being together with her career as a social media influencer and his disdain for the whole experience. That means constant digs at her for doing her job that doesn't come off as friendly couple banter and is all that they do together which makes their connection all the more confusing beyond taking up time to get to the point of everything. That comes into even greater focus, though, when it transpires that the whole thing makes no sense in the slightest. The whole idea of the demon haunting the building and instilling the series of time-loops to take place with all the guests who are stuck constantly reenacting their final moments before dying would've been fine had it brought these elements together in a matter that comes off cohesively. Instead, the whole thing is chaotic and random with no entry point into how it all comes together, what each of the various guests is doing there, or what the manager's purpose in being there actually is since his role seems to be far more horrified at the thought rather than being involved and steering everything along. That makes for an absolutely confusing time throughout here with absolutely nothing coming together to make sense, and when combined with a plainly-obvious series of low-budget limitations that creep up brings this one down significantly. There really isn't that much to like here, and it's pretty much reserved for several small areas that don't mean all that much in the grand scheme of things. The biggest plus here is the overall atmosphere of the hotel which makes the scenes here quite suspenseful in theory with the various maladies and situations that arise. From seeing specters of dead children, patrons walking around with mortal wounds, and others flat-out killing themselves in front of him, there's a creepiness that comes through here aided by the lack of explanation for everything. That also makes several of the ghostly death interactions and confrontations somewhat suspenseful as everything that takes place here has the potential to be creepy in some context but doesn't really count in this context as the idea of what's going on is mostly undone by the vast majority of flaws on display.

Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Violence and Graphic Language.

There are some movies you "watch" while doing your dishes/taking a shower/browsing the internet etc but they still manage to annoy you. This is one of them. Why people bother to make movies with characters that no one gives a damn about? I really wished the main female character died in the first 1minute so we wouldn't have to listen to her annoying screaming all the time. Bad movie. Don't waste your time.

The first part of a story should have something that make the main characters likable or something we can identify with.

It is better to invest in a good makeup artist than just bying some cheap contact lenses at Amazon you see at any rave party.

Laughing children with some ketchup stains are not scary. Speaking latin is not scary. Wearing a black hoodie is not scary.

Black goo, can actually be scary, but it have to be in context and with some explanation.

Now there are actually some good nuggets in this mess.

Having 3 bad guys with different objectives is actually a really good one. This would add to the story if their different goals would clash more, how would the stalker react if he saw his lady being sacrificed ?

The house with ghosts repeating their last day as living, is also a good one - if only there were a reason to follow the clues to how that day was and what order it happened in. If the couple had found a diary, some pictures adn so on.

Moaning in a movie must be distinct enough so we understand what the characters hear, and what belongs to the soundtrack. The creaking of the floor in the beginning was very clear and effective, we heard a second creak from the left, and understood there were someone there. Why would this be dropped in the rest of the movie ?

There is more but brings me to the final nail in the coffin for me in regards of this movie, it lacks any subtlety. Any form of building suspense is soon destroyed here with some closeup, wobbling of camera or straight blurry fighting scene.

This might be ok, in your filming of the action in riding the rollercoasters at Disney, last vacation there - but is out of place in a thriller or horror.

What was that ? Just a horrible movie. The movie makes zero sense. Not worth a 1 rating....but there was no zero rating. Just a mess of nothing . Couldn't follow anything.

So I went into this movie not expecting much based off of the reviews. One review said they "wished the main girl lead would of died in the first minute to keep from hearing her scream"

Pause....

She didn't scream once throughout the WHOLE movie.

It does start off as a WTF is going on movie, but stick with it everything ties together about halfway through the movie.

It is different from other movies of this caliber and I don't want too give much away in this.

It's not a bad movie at all and makes sense if you pay attention to it. Another review said it "...doesn't make any sense...", and it does just again pay attention to understand what's going on.

Yes the acting is not the greatest but again it's a B rated film, and of course all actors/actresses needs to start somewhere.

There is some comical spots in the movie, and one actor I fell in love with even though he doesn't play too much of a role in this movie, but his spots toward the end made me like his character.