The only thing scary about NIGHTLIGHT is time wasted that you can't have back.
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. NIGHTLIGHT as a horror film is its own joke. It focuses too much on shaking and not enough on giving us what the hell is really happening. The mystery gets lost in the found footage style which I must say has gotten exhausted by this point.
Directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, NIGHTLIGHT is your typical pretty people in peril horror. A group of teens journey into the dark Covington forest that holds a certain past for troubled youths. One of the teens, Robin (Shelby Young) reluctantly joins the group out of peer pressure and a boy crush. Soon enough their plans go haywire when they awaken a demonic presence that take hold of their deepest fears.
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. People want to see what's going on, people want to see what horrifying presence they're dealing with or what's at hand. 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. The characters seem terrified but we don't feel the same impact because we can't see what it is that's terrorizing them. 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. NIGHTLIGHT is generic, it's predictable, it's dizzying, it's a major time-waster.
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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. NIGHTLIGHT as a horror film is its own joke. It focuses too much on shaking and not enough on giving us what the hell is really happening. The mystery gets lost in the found footage style which I must say has gotten exhausted by this point.
Directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, NIGHTLIGHT is your typical pretty people in peril horror. A group of teens journey into the dark Covington forest that holds a certain past for troubled youths. One of the teens, Robin (Shelby Young) reluctantly joins the group out of peer pressure and a boy crush. Soon enough their plans go haywire when they awaken a demonic presence that take hold of their deepest fears.
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. People want to see what's going on, people want to see what horrifying presence they're dealing with or what's at hand. 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. The characters seem terrified but we don't feel the same impact because we can't see what it is that's terrorizing them. 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. NIGHTLIGHT is generic, it's predictable, it's dizzying, it's a major time-waster.
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