When Darkness Falls

(Watched as part of an early press screening)

Although I sat through the whole film, I felt it was an unfinished film. Nothing about it was good enough for home entertainment. It felt like a student film, although a student film would be better.

The narrative idea had a decent amount of potential, but Nathan Shepka executed it poorly. The quality was horrifc, acting just as bad.

The film poster i'd seen (Michaela Longdon looking in the mirror) was decent, proper thriller-esque poster. But looking at the poster on IMDB told me enough about how the film would play out.

Give it a huge miss is my advice, harsh but justifiable.

I caught this on Roku, intrigued by the title and artwork. I was expecting something more horror-centered, but to my surprise this plays out as more of a mystery thriller (and engagingly so).

The locations look great. Everything looks barren and it suits the nature of a missing person thriller like this. It could probably have done with slicing 5-10 minutes off the run time, but it does slowly build up pretty well.

The final 20 minutes in particular, after, yep...darkness falls, is tense. Given the budget it's well made, engaging and the cast is decent. It's a little far fetched in places but I guess that's a pre-requisite for this type of B movie thriller. I just enjoy seeing something where everything is on screen, out on locations (and I'll watch most things shot in Scottish countryside). There's too many green screen films these days.

Well worth checking out.

From the first moment of the movie, you know that the acting isn't going to be great. But having said that, apart from the acting, I think it comes together. The scenery is nice, the shots are not special, but hey are definitely not bad, and I have to say the story is actually quite interesting.

If you are willing to forget the bad acting and breathing dead people, there are enough interesting things in this movie that makes it worth viewing.

It's totally not a Hollywood movie where there are clues scattered everywhere, and the low pace of the movie is a pleasant.

Even though I gave it a four it's worth viewing, if you can forgive the acting.

My apologies to the actors though. The were very good for their roles, and I'd like to see more of them.

Omg do not waste your time on this movie if you don't want to be depressed and angry for the rest of your day knowing that the 2 women got paid well for acting badly in this so called trash of a movie.

Never in my life even for a horror movie have i seen such a bad plot and speeches.

I would love to know why imbd allowing there work colleagues to vote on this bad movie with good stars?

Many things i could point out bad with this movie but mainly the script was so bad it was laughable and acting from the worst possible way and like nothing like what stupid dustypepper wrote which was all lies.

This is the worst movie I've ever seen, I'm pretty sure I made up more compelling and believable dialogue playing with my Star Wars figures when I 8 years old. The "acting" is slightly better than a first grade play and I'm only giving it that much credit because the actors were probably able to remember their lines. While watching this abomination I kept thinking to myself that this isn't how people talk or move because of how stiff everything is, nothing came off as having a natural flow, everything was just so forced. With most movies there is at least one character you like, not this one. Every character your supposed to empathize with or not have a feeling about one way or the other comes across as having stick permanently stuck up their ass. The sound is also god awful.