johannes2000-1 Review of Dark Was the Night

Dark Was the Night (2014)

Solid creature-feature with strong acting.

[8/10 · 26 October 2018]

Actually, for a creature-feature is wasn't that bad at all! There's a nice slow building-up of the tension and the makers were wise enough to let the creature for most of the movie stay out of full vision, this way we are spared the usually preposterous man-in-furry-suit wannabe Bigfoot. And in the last shot (that's really quite surprising and bloodchilling), they used convincing CGI. What lifts this movie further above the regular horror-flick is the strong acting of both sherrif (Kevin Durand) and deputy (Lukas Haas), helped by a good storyline for each of them, so that both characters gained some extra depth. It isn't really functional in such a movie, but provides a nice counter-balance to all the creature-turmoils.