Dark Windows

I came across this flick while looking for a good horror on Amazon and the trailer showed three people trapped in a house with a killer outside which was was just the type of mindless slasher I was in the mood for tonight.

It turned out to be much better than I expected and the suspense slowly builds up throughout the film until the intense ending. No spoilers will be shared here though. Just the general plot... After the death of a friend, 3 friends of the deceased go to a house in the country to overcome their grief...but they're not alone. The horror doesn't begin right away but the tension slowly builds throughout the first hour keeping you engaged. I wasn't bored at any point and I usually shut films off after 10 minutes if i'm not getting into it.

The acting by all the leads was pretty good, especially by the lead girl and none of the characters made stupid decisions like they do in most of these types of films.

I'm rating it a 9 because with so many bad new horrors out there today, this was a nice surprise and I was into it the whole way through. I paid 3.99 to rent it, but if you wait a while it'll most likely be free to stream soon, but I don't feel like I wasted my money on it because I really enjoyed it. Definitely recommended if you're into suspense with good acting and I thought the ending was pretty intense and done well.

The scariest thing about this "thriller" is that someone read the script and greenlit it. There is absolutely nothing in this movie we haven't seen countless times in much better movies, except for one scene (actually just one shot) near the end.

The actors can act, I'll give them that, but the characters are one dimensional and the fact that they spend half the movie bickering does nothing to make them any more palatable.

After the first act, there is literally a full hour when nothing even remotely dramatic happens. Everything "scary" is jammed into the last 20 minutes, and it's so lame it's not worth sticking around for.

Any of the glowing reviews here must have come from the cast and crew. Either that or the reviewers are the kind of easily triggered pantywaists who have a nervous breakdown if their fast food order has the wrong kind of fries.

If you're in the mood for this kind of movie, you'd be better served rewatching "I Know What You Did Last Summer" or any of its sequels or remakes.

I may be in the horror lover minority here but I love an extremely slow burn. I would rather it be the slowest of burns than a bloodbath from the get go for no reason. It's a rainy night here and this was precisely the movie I wanted to watch. Emotional, suspenseful, eery, very well acted, beautiful cinematography, and some very creepy touches. Also one kill in particular that I'll remember for a long time. Quite frankly I don't even know how they filmed it. That right there was worth the whole damn movie. But yeah this was way better than I thought it would be, if you're a fan of You're Next, Watcher, The Strangers I think you'll dig this. Spoiler-free (mostly horror) reviews regularly on my podcast What's Up Weirdo, see ya there :)

Much better than the rating suggests if you like drama/horror movies. In my opinion this is a little hidden gem. It's only one hour and 20 minutes long, so it's not one of those long drawn out type horror movies. The story is great and unique. It's got a couple of messages for younger people in the movie, such as never drink and drive and when someone is driving, act responsibly.

I had never seen any of these actors but All of the actors do a great job. There isn't a whole lot of horror in the movie but just enough to keep you interested and the final act it's worth the wait.

7/10 all in all a good/great horror.

In a seemingly endless sea of absolutely unwatchable garbage which never should have been made, this decent film seems excellent, relatively speaking.

The acting is mostly good, the casting is mostly good, the music is pretty good, the editing and shaky cam are not ridiculously overdone and a few of the lines in the script are actually great, which I don't think I've been able to say for the last 100 movies I've tried to watch. For example, When Monica (Annie Hamilton) says, "This is a really good closet for hide and seek... if we decide to play." That is a great piece of dialogue which offered insight into the character's personality, the house itself, and the character's personal connection with the house. It was unexpected, funny and seemed realistic in spite of it being out of place, given the circumstance.

I love that they didn't overdo the makeup and let Tilly's (Anna Bullard's) freckles shine. That is so rare.

I don't know if they had a bowl of ice cubes on set or what, but the braless diamond cutters throughout really give you a sense of a chill in the air.

The plot and twists are actually pretty plausible as far as horror movies go.

If you're watching movies on your computer at home alone, this is about as good as your going to find these days. Hopefully it signals the beginning of the end of the crapfest the film industry has been for the last decade or so.