Against the Night

Not really worth watching when there are other, more interesting things to watch. Things like 24/7 cam footage of grass growing or competitive paint drying. Pros: Production value Totally not ghosts for once Cons: Tons of characters to not care about 1 and a half personalities split between 9 people Lol meth Stupid plot "twist" the movie basically told us was going to happen the whole time Dan

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.

I normally love bad films, not this one. Not many films make me want my life back, but this did. The only redeeming features of this, that it was not all done in terrible bad quality found footage. The acting was not convincing at all, and there's a lot of really dumb ideas going on. It would have been a lot better if they would have edited it down. So first maybe ghosts, then a lot of talk about aliens, and how the prison just happens to look like a crop circle?? Which feels like a leap in logic. Then oh my a meth lab, and a psycho assassin drug dealer in a gas mask? But actually it was Cthulhu spawn all along!? Makes total sense. Like if they would have gone with different people seeing different things, and it was a meth lab all along. That might have worked better, but as is. It's a hot mess. But still managed to be dull. Why does the tentacled monster have a meth lab though?? That's never explained.

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.

Look, I watch a lot of horror movies with low budgets, concepts outside of their skill set, actors that can't really pull off what they're tasked to do, and there's usually at the very least a tiny grain of something great. This is not that. 80% of the dialogue is questions, and stupid questions at that. It's as if they knew they couldn't build tension with their plot so they just inserted a bunch of fake paranoia and questions to hopefully create it out of nothing. The set is great, or I think it is but you can see basically none of it. The special effects are almost non-existent. The camera work and editing is basic and flat. The characters? There are no characters. There were never characters. No one is likable, no one is worth rooting for, and none of them are so unpleasant that you enjoy the possibility of them dying. And the plot and its twist? Eh. Sometimes a horror movie has, at the very least, a feel that it was so well loved by its creators that they just had to share. This doesn't have that, and because of how utterly terrible it is without that feeling of love this just feels like I was cheated out of time.

This movie is just an awful mess,It doesnt make any sense ,its not scary,the acting is horrible ( there are scenes the acting is so bad you laugh) ,Just terrible ,dont waste your time watching ,one of the worst movies i have ever had the misfortune to see

Typical generic group of friends.. the drug, prank and alien twist were a good surprise. I thoroughly enjoyed this for what it is.

The Good: This is shot with a pretty quality direction. I expected a lower budget feel but was pleasantly surprised. From the get go, the characters were played well and had an air about them as if they had known each other for decades. They way the interacted was well written and played. The bad: At some point, after the friends go into the jail, the movie devolves into a bunch of people walking around the dark, then running around screaming. This becomes a little tiring and feels like filler. The ugly: *spoiler* All the while you are trying to figure out who the killer is, the suspects seem to rotate until right when you think you have it, you're wrong again. But this is all done in a bad way. First, you movie eludes to the jail being haunted..then the possibility of it being a friend pop up, then theres a sprinkling of aliens, then extra people attached to a meth lab, then a hint that maybe Rachel did it under an illusion...only to find out all of those were wrong and what they chose to be the killer is worse than all of those. So, that kinda blew it for me. The verdict: Overall not a terrible watch. Some good, tense moments and interesting camera work. Just expect to be let down by the ending.

But this film is a real stinker. Nothing redeeming whatsoever about any of the characters. Directionless. Took me multiple attempts to watch it all the way through. Don't waste your time. As the other reviewer mentioned it comes across as a terrible Grave Encounters ripoff.

I love horror movies of every kind, even "bad" ones for entertainment value. What makes "bad" horror movies good is the fact that the people involved KNOW they're making a movie that's so horrible it's funny. Against The Night had no clue. A script/plot similar to something I wrote in 6th grade, really REALLY bad acting, overused cliches so bad that you can tell what's going to happen to who after 10 minutes...the list of negatives goes on & on. Don't waste your time, it's unbearable no matter what angle you try to view it from.