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. 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. 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. The minute you thought "that's the ending" the image got back and kept going endlessly. 90 something minutes that seemed to go on forever. The ghost of Ethan? Most definitely, they think. Cluless and clumsy teens walking around without knowing where they step? Perhaps. 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. 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. It didn't prove me wrong but got a lot weirder than I thought. 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. 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). Read more at Ramascreen.ComĮither 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. ![]() NIGHTLIGHT is generic, it's predictable, it's dizzying, it's a major time-waster. 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. The characters seem terrified but we don't feel the same impact because we can't see what it is that's terrorizing them. 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. People want to see what's going on, people want to see what horrifying presence they're dealing with or what's at hand. 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. Soon enough their plans go haywire when they awaken a demonic presence that take hold of their deepest fears. One of the teens, Robin (Shelby Young) reluctantly joins the group out of peer pressure and a boy crush. A group of teens journey into the dark Covington forest that holds a certain past for troubled youths. ![]() Directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, NIGHTLIGHT is your typical pretty people in peril horror. The mystery gets lost in the found footage style which I must say has gotten exhausted by this point. ![]() It focuses too much on shaking and not enough on giving us what the hell is really happening. NIGHTLIGHT as a horror film is its own joke. 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. The only thing scary about NIGHTLIGHT is time wasted that you can't have back.
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