After Dark

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Oh boy this was bad, really bad. Firstly the acting, dreadful. It's as easy as that. The budget was zero, the Tory line would have been better if there was tension in the film, there was none. Okay I would say from a guy's point of view the girls were nice. The script itself has to be blamed as well, it was awful, I could have done a better one, check anyone could have. Don't bother with this travesty, I would give it zero stars. But I have given one star for effort and the other star for the girls.

Tips for writers: 1. Don't start your movie with the usual gang of predictable cinema teenager portrayals 2. Don't make your characters so irritating that not only does it make the audience not care about them, it turns them off the film before it even really gets underway. 3. Don't make your characters SO. INCREDIBLY. STUPID. that it makes them unbearable to watch. 4. Do not make the audience endure all of the above for 50+ minutes (over half the movie!!) *before anything actually starts happening*!! 5. Hire a professional writer.

It is a wild ride for Crystal and her friends as they head to the sand dunes of Diamond Mountain for spring break to ride motocross bikes and party with other college students. Along the way they have car problems and are forced to pull off the abandoned road and wait for friends to come by and help. Shortly after waiting on the side of the road they are accompanied by a stranger who offers help to the group. T hey are afraid at first, but soon the stranger, Hector (Jessie James Young Blood) earns their trust. Through all of their efforts they can't fix their truck. Jake, Devaughn's cousin and one of the guys from the group, offers to head back to town for help. Time passes and there is no sign of any friends or help in sight. As the night falls, they drink around the campfire and tell stories. Amy and Chase decide to head out for a little private time and Hector takes a walk. Typical slasher plot. Surprisingly well filmed, given the lack of budget. But the script is rather dopey and poorly written. The acting is OK except when a girl or two actually look into the camera for no reason. The background band is horrible. The movie falls apart very quickly and it's too bad because it COULD have been good. As it stands it's an OK foray into the genre but forgettable.

I love independent horror movies, and this is an ok one. It wasn't BAD but it's definitely not something I'll watch again...I love Korrina Rico I seen her somewhere just can't remember..but the storyline was nice, predictable but nice

Was in this one.... 1. 20'something group on road trip.... 2. a "crazy" person warning not to go... 3. one jerk who EVERYONE hates... 4.taking a wrong.... 5.having car trouble.... 6. splitting up to get help... 7. black guy getting killed first... 8. predictable within 10 mins of the movie who the final girl is.....

Seven young people head out for a vacation but Chase, who is a jerk, leaves his spare tire at home so he can be a jerk to misfit Jake. Chase, known jerk, insists he knows where they're headed but manages to take a wrong turn. Being as Chase is a jerk, he throws a full can of beer at a man walking down the lonely road. Sure enough, the gang gets a flat tire and is stranded in the middle of nowhere with Hector, the man Chase hit with the beer earlier because Chase is a jerk. Jake heads off alone in search of help (but mainly to escape a certain jerk named Chase) and the rest of the gang hang out around the campfire where Chase tells an ethnic joke, because he's a jerk. Hector tells a story about young people being murdered at a nearby campsite. The friends grow suspicious of Hector, as Chase continues to be a jerk. There's a twist at the end, and a setup for a sequel. After Dark is so formulaic that you'll start to think you've seen it before. Entire shots are lifted from other, better slasher flicks. Character development consists of Chase being awful and the other characters calling him a jerk (see above); by the end of the movie I realized that the only character names I knew were Chase and Hector. There's no nudity and very little gore but we are treated to a weirdly long shot of a toad. The killer's back story is as silly as using a semi trailer for his lair. One excellent kill bumped this up to a 2/10 for me (as tame and boring as the rest of the movie is, that one surprised me) but there's really no need to seek this one out for it.

After Dark