Against the Night

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.

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.

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.

This could have been a good film, the location was terrific. Unfortunately it felt like the writer had too many ideas, and decided to use all of them.

Stars are given based on my personal enjoyment of the film and plot.

2 - Terrible in both plot and production. I was either left wanting my time back or wondering what just happened.

Another reviewer wrote , 'irredeemably terrible.' Well that's a verdict I kind've agree with so I'm not going to spend any amount of time expounding on that review. Let's just say it's definitely not good and it's far from being the absolute worst out there that there is.