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A lot of people hate found footage movies but I love them. This one is not the worst one or the best one. Just somewhere in between. Overall I liked it. Whole movie is set in a deep forest in total darkness so it does have an eerie atmosphere from the beginning till the end.

Plot is nothing special just an excuse for some dumb teens to go into the woods and get in trouble. However, unlike other Found Footage movies, this one has little twist in the end which gives us a whole new reason behind this being filmed as a found footage movie. Acting is okay. There are few jump scares, none of which will make you jump if you watch horror movies often.

In the end, I did like it but obviously, could have been better. If you love found footage movies, give this one a try.

It actually started good! It did, it did I tell you! Even continued so for a while until it decided to over stretch it, over use it and annoy its audience!

So, this is a different kind of horror, a blend of found footage with normal view, more of a first person horror to be honest, you always see from one's point of view but I won't take that as something bad. It worked decent enough, I actually think it is an improvement compared to found footage style.

It created a nice little premise for itself, had some seen before but good used scenes, made that impression that it will be worth while and then falls flat and stays there. So no, overall, at the end of it, you will consider it a complete waste of time. Therefore I will not recommend Nightlight to anyone. Sorry to say so, seemed better at first.

Cheers!

I honestly love shitty horror movies! This movie was not as bad as the reviews suggest. I'm not saying it's amazing, I'm not saying its bad, its a decent horror movie with a decent cast.

The only thing scary about NIGHTLIGHT is time wasted that you can't have back.

I think this movie's biggest sin is its somehow believing that it can scare you when all it can do is make your head go dizzy. NIGHTLIGHT as a horror film is its own joke. It focuses too much on shaking and not enough on giving us what the hell is really happening. The mystery gets lost in the found footage style which I must say has gotten exhausted by this point.

Directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, NIGHTLIGHT is your typical pretty people in peril horror. A group of teens journey into the dark Covington forest that holds a certain past for troubled youths. One of the teens, Robin (Shelby Young) reluctantly joins the group out of peer pressure and a boy crush. Soon enough their plans go haywire when they awaken a demonic presence that take hold of their deepest fears.

NIGHTLIGHT probably would've worked if it had come out about 15 years ago at the heights of of "Blair Witch" popularity, but it just couldn't work anymore today. People want to see what's going on, people want to see what horrifying presence they're dealing with or what's at hand. Having a camera look at the ground because the character is running or focusing on someplace else, only annoys the hell out of us audience. The characters seem terrified but we don't feel the same impact because we can't see what it is that's terrorizing them. In some horror movies, less is more works, in some horror movies, you can do enough damage by not being graphic or too visual about it, but when you're dealing with something like NIGHTLIGHT, where everything is already set in the dark, making things even more invisible makes for a not so fun horror-watching experience. NIGHTLIGHT is generic, it's predictable, it's dizzying, it's a major time-waster.

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this movie definitely wasn't as good as I thought it'd be... But it wasn't terrible. I thought the idea for the movie was really neat, and it was very jumpy at a lot of parts.

It didn't scare me like I wanted it to though. It was also kind of hard to follow, it jumped around a lot. But all in all. It was an okay movie.

the way it was shot was annoying to me. the actors did pretty well though. cool idea, but definitely could've been better

The beginning was the best part. I'd say it's worth watching :)

Just don't go in thinking you're gonna be real scared

I really enjoyed this movie.

I am able to stand the first-person type of filming, and really enjoy a well made one.

This story is filmed from the viewpoint of a flashlight. THat was an interesting idea, and lets them do it a little differently than if it was a camera like all the other "found footage" style movies.

I thought the storyline was interesting, didn't feel like it was just a copy of other movies. The acting was well done, the suspense was great, and I was glued to the screen throughout.

If you don't mind the style of filming, definitely check this out.

I watch a TON of horror movies, and this was one of the better ones I've seen that have come out this year, by far.

7.5/10

Nice try guys, I'll always give that A for effort.

The movie reminded me a lot of the Blair Witch project. It was very retro in it's whole found footage horror genre theme. Maybe because they did a lot with such a small crew of people.

A group of white kids go into the woods, for what reason never matters, but horny whites under age 24 in the woods, always is a bad idea (should be a law against it.)

Anyway, the movie did have suspense. Some of the suspenseful moments were great, they were killing me with it.

The problem here was the scare, and when you're doing horror, that's an important problem.

From the moment the first real scare went down I knew this movie was in trouble. I did not jump out of my seat once in the movie, not once. There were some eerie moments in the film but nothing really registered. It may have been how sloppy the whole story was put together. I never fully got the purpose of the game they were playing (maybe cause I never played it (maybe because I'm not stupid enough to go into the woods to play a stupid game)

The girls in the movie were cute. That was a bonus, I found them pleasant to look at, but no one's persona was develop well enough to really care weather they lived or died.

Also, the movie had too many false scares, and horror moments. It felt like they were trying to add more time to make what could have worked as a short, a feature movie, but all it did was make an hour and a half feel like twice as long.

Once again, A for effort but will not recommend watching.

Either the viewer punch himself or herself for watching this or they find a way to punch the makers of this for actually pulling such a strange stunt that never gives us the taste for horror, just thrilling ourselves with screaming and blurred images that doesn't reveal anything with a huge flashlight in the middle of the screen. I knew "Nightlight" was going to become a waste of time but time was mine to be wasted and no money was involved so...yep, only in it to see how bad or laughable it could get and to have a glimpse of Mitch Hewer (main reason actually). Alright, I was on a great track of watching just good or great films that I needed to get some sense of reality in seeing a bad movie for a change. It didn't prove me wrong but got a lot weirder than I thought.

Scott Beck and Bryan Woods are the writers and directors of this thing, a story that revolves about a young and restless group of full of vanity, full of smiles and despicable and unlikeable behavior (played by Shelby Young, Mitch Hewer, Chloe Bridges, Taylor Murphy and Carter Jenkins) going to a forest at night to play a game called "Nightlight" carrying flashlights and cameras (which tell the story, so here's another found footage horror flick) boring the audiences but having fun among themselves in this place where Ethan, another teen (Kyle Fain) friend of theirs, committed suicide some time ago. The game revolves around blindfolding a member of the group and ask them to find them in the deep forest, hide and seek but the thrills of nature, sounds, voices, strange things going on...until mystery takes place, folks disappear, tumbling and falling and screaming on and on. Theories: a killer on the loose? Nope. Dangerous animals? Maybe. Cluless and clumsy teens walking around without knowing where they step? Perhaps. The ghost of Ethan? Most definitely, they think.

90 something minutes that seemed to go on forever. The minute you thought "that's the ending" the image got back and kept going endlessly. And was I scared? Not one minute. Was I amused? One or two times. There was some funny bits (like the girl revealing her sexual fantasy with the Grinch) or some cute moments (Hewer seducing the shy girl who actually likes the guy but hates to admit it) but those bits and pieces can't form a whole in which we can say we enjoyed it. But we are tired of the found footage trend in horror, that goes back to 1980 (those who dared to watch the great "Cannibal Holocaust") to later become hip and better used in "The Blair Witch Project" and "Cloverfield" and after those fore-mentioned examples it went all downhill. Each similar film goes by each year and not only it's not scary, they're boring and uninteresting but it also lacks in holding a deeper importance, a relevance to life. Not to mention, most of what's made today it's just cheap, poorly filmed and nauseating. It's all about scream and shaking images. And we're talking about a motion picture, one that should be able to create and present images we can all see. Characters fell from the hill or something in "Nightlight" and it's just the camera showing a nasty tumble and we're like "What?". Above all, the worst trait (plot hole maybe, or people are just THAT unconcerned) is that the five guys split to play the game and when things start going wrong one or two get together, start asking about one of the friends, they don't find any or maybe find one, and later on they stop asking about the other friends - the audience knows they're dead but the characters don't so how come they stop looking or asking about them? Insert facepalm.

And the trivia says this film was shot in 2013 and for unknown reasons was not released until 2015. Unknown? The makers were embarrassed by it and tried to buried it as deep as they could but since money talks (the people who invest $ will want $ and more back, obviously) the creature was unleashed to the dismay of frightening audiences - terrified with the trashy quality of the movie and not for the horror moments displayed there.

Getting back to the initial remarks, my conclusion goes that I can't punch the filmmakers because they're far away from me and I'm not a violent person anyway. I take this moment to say they should be ashamed of themselves for putting this thing to the world. There goes millions of dollars that didn't produce anything good. As for punching myself, one minor slap on the face is just good enough. I'll go back to the better movie experiences. Going to this bad one made me learn. 2/10

Nightligh is about a group of friends that will play in a haunted forest. The film does not explain exactly what happened to them, there is cool scenes and good effects, but they actors are not so good. The movie could be show more ghosts and give more scares. Sometimes show a creature like a demon, sometimes the movies talk about a spirit of a boy, I don't understand that, was to vague at this point in the history of the movie, and the are a lot of cliché. It's the same thing all time, friends will play stupid jokes in abandoned place that is haunted and the things go upside down after happened a lot of strange noises and strange things, but no one goes home until disaster strikes. This history already tired. They should invent a new kind of haunting , a reason the place is haunted, but they preferred put boys and girls in a forest to be killed one by one. It is good to watch if you have nothing better.

Can you put that movie into the horror category even if there is nothing horrific about it?! I mean, why are these people labeling their movie into genres that are far from being perceived in the final work? The audience wants to see a horror movie, not a fake ghost movie. It is so disappointing, the poster is catchy, the trailer is catchy, but the movie is crappy. How can people sit back and write a screenplay of that ludicrous thing is beyond my comprehension. Watching plant grow is actually funnier than wasting time with this ridiculous movie. Enough is enough, either these people do a good horror movie or we will have to create a whole new genre : "crappy" !

Rarely can I handle shaky Cam Horror Flicks yet NIGHTLIGHT is 1) Well Acted 2)Suspenseful 3)Engaging

The Negetative: NO Happy or even Neutral Ending!

I do Not write Spoilers (and am Not going to write one now). Just say, if you want the Premise to be clear and have resolute at the end of your HORROR FILMS... NIGHTLIGHT will NOT provide that for you.

It's creepy scary, in an unfamiliar woods with only flashlights. The actors, dialogue, darkened setting, and night sounds provide most of the Chills. Not an Alls Well That Ends Well feel. Pit in stomach sort of film, I am glad I hadn't viewed at night.

Cannot say I recommend to anyone that's not a Hardcore Horror Fan. It's not visually "overtly graphic"... though it does contain some blood and gore. It's basically the knowledge that someone has perished, and the sound of that which is the creepy factor. So, watch if you root for "The Bad Guys" or want the unknown "The Things That Go Bump In The Night" to be victorious!

Well gave this a watchh last night and came away thinking there was nothing wrong in the film itself, in fact everything was okay. The acting, the story, the whole film itself was okay. The film had adult teenagers venturing into a haunted woods. It all takes place at night, the little twist was okay. Overall for the whole film everything was average which is a a few tweaks here and there the film could have been really good. Overall average. Worth a watch if you like found footage films.

This movie proved itself as one of many psychological horror/thrillers that, in the beginning, you wouldn't have guessed that it would come with a nice twisted twist! Don't want to be a spoiler so I feel that this film is a must see!! Especially if you're a fan of allowing your brain to enter a mind bender.....

Decent watch, probably won't watch it again, and can only recommend for found footage fans.

This lovely little piece of found footage garbage actually has a somewhat interesting premise, reminding me a lot of Slenderman in the way that the demon stalks and haunts the cast.

While it was a delightful surprise to see Chloe Bridges, the movie suffers from a lot of problems that audiences have with found footage, including its plausibility. They literally throw something over the camera at one point and I thought, "Really, the budget was that bad you couldn't just have the camera turned away?" The actual action of covering the camera, and thus the light made (some) sense, but that the camera was in that position in the first place felt contrived and covering the camera just made me feel like I was going to be ripped off.

Now, it's a game in the dark with shadows everywhere on a budget so the production value is low and it's hard to see most of the time.

There is a lot of good in this too, but ultimately I think it needs a rewrite and reboot without found footage.