Darkest Night

Shot in the Philippines and most people speak choppy but comprehensible English. Opens with text about David and Michelle Espino, along with others, vanishing; their home found in ruins. Danny Valencia creates a documentary from the footage and he must have added the cinematic scare scene sounds.

Dramatic reenactments are noted followed by a found footage deep dive. David and Michelle meet her family and drink and eat and then the lights go out. Cellphones and cars do not work. Everyone is in the dark and carrying lanterns or candles.

This is shot from the creepy, autistic relative who is mute minus his heavy breathing. A synthetic dragon roars in the woods and then in the house.

Lots of lantern lighten screaming at each other in the dark. Someone disappears; demonic possession + demonic possession; your favorite aunt births a demon baby that disappears.

Visually interesting, but marred by poor acting and an unclear story. Which is not atypical for shi.t horror films. It does try though.

Granted I had no idea what I was getting myself into here when I stumbled upon "Darkest Night" and decided to sit down and watch it. All I knew was that it was a horror movie of sorts, which was essentially all I need to be persuaded to sit down and watch a movie on.

Turns out that "Darkest Night", not only was the darkest, but also the most boring of nights. I managed to endure 45 minutes of pure torture of the ordeal that is known as "Darkest Night". The storyline had zero appeal and the fact that absolutely nothing happened in those 45 minutes made me give up and I have absolutely zero interest in returning to watch the rest of the movie. And also the horrible and shoddy camera work that was all over the place didn't help sell the movie one bit for me, quite the opposite actually.

As for the acting in the movie, well... Let's just say that you shouldn't be expecting anything memorable or outstanding. Well, there was one outstanding performance, and not for a good thing mind you, it was the lady whom was supposed to have been to France and returned to the Philippines, are you kidding me? The horrible accent she was speaking with was just downright painful to listen to.

"Longest Night" might be listed as a horror, but don't do the mistake I did and get suckered in because this was a snoozefest of epic proportions. There is nothing, and I mean absolutely nothing worth of any interest in the movie. Take heed and stay well clear of this, unless you have a fetish for wasting time on pointless movies.

Nothing to say... Sorry, waste of time and for me it's not possible to give a vote even if it was possible to give -10 it's still to much. minimum length for review is 10 lines... :-/

Acting very bad, after each kill 2 minutes cry and back to the coffee table as if nothing happened.

Special effect? Where were they and if they where there I think in the 70's they were a lot better!

Interacting with each other... Sometimes it looks like every "actor" was talking to a green screen if every scene, per person, was made separately.

Acting:- Music:- script:- camera:-

I don't know what the other reviewers are drinking or smoking, but this movie was bad, bad, bad. Don't waste your $ and your time. This is my first review and I signed up on IMDb just to warn you.

It was bad directing, bad acting, bad conception, absolutely the worst found footage flic I have yet seen and, as you know, there are a lot of bad ones out there.

If I were in a position to do so, I'd can this film to prevent anyone else from wasting money to see it. I cannot for the life of me understand why the other reviewers thought it was so great unless they are related to the director.

I saw this film recently at a private screening, the "final final" version (I think 99 min. long?) in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. I'm not sure about the hype that something like this really happened in Malaysia, but the film delivers on its own. After the story got set up, I was grabbing my seat the whole time. DJ Perry and the Filipino cast was excellent. Plus one great Malaysian actor! Very good! Hooray! If you want to see a film that will scare the wits out of you, this is really it. The "home video" setup made you feel like you were trapped in some dark place, a nightmare where you could never wake up. I had nightmares myself the night I saw it, about people getting chopped up and mutilated. If you check out any horror film this year, see this one!