It's probably one of the funniest Madea movies, but there are literally scenes completely out of order and one scene even REPEATS. Don't know who edited but man did they drop the ball on it.
Reviews
2 Reviews
A Madea Christmas
(2013)
One of the funniest entries, but WOW the editing mistakes!
19 February 2020
Dark Was the Night
(2014)
Great atmosphere, pretty good story, terrible colorist
28 October 2015
To be perfectly blunt I nearly turned the movie off a couple of minutes in. Normally there is a person who works on a film called a colorist and that person is in charge of how the film looks in regard to color. Whoever colored this film basically just hit the "blue" button and called it a day. Seriously, it's the worst coloring job I've seen on any film not shot by complete amateurs. That's a major gripe, but once you get past it there's more to this film.
The nice slow/deliberate pace is a welcome change of pace from most movies now that have to slam you with action from scene 1. This film did a fantastic job of reminding me of stories of the Jersey Devil that I read when I was younger. It did what I feel that most horror movies should do and often can't pull off, it gave me the creeps. Creepy wins out over quick/cheap scares any day in my book. It also won out wonderfully on another level. They don't really show what they're up against until the end of the film. Good creepy monsters should not be fully seen until the end of the film. That said, I wasn't terribly impressed with the creature effects when they finally did show it...but having given me nearly and hour and a half of creeps prior to that point I'll say the creature effects only slightly affect how I feel about the film.
Overall a good creature feature that could have been a great creature feature with the use of puppetry instead of CGI, better color grading, and maybe a runtime that was slightly longer so as to allow the film to explore more "strange happenings" around the small town.
VERDICT: Definitely worth a watch. You may not rewatch it much, but it's a great film first-time through.
The nice slow/deliberate pace is a welcome change of pace from most movies now that have to slam you with action from scene 1. This film did a fantastic job of reminding me of stories of the Jersey Devil that I read when I was younger. It did what I feel that most horror movies should do and often can't pull off, it gave me the creeps. Creepy wins out over quick/cheap scares any day in my book. It also won out wonderfully on another level. They don't really show what they're up against until the end of the film. Good creepy monsters should not be fully seen until the end of the film. That said, I wasn't terribly impressed with the creature effects when they finally did show it...but having given me nearly and hour and a half of creeps prior to that point I'll say the creature effects only slightly affect how I feel about the film.
Overall a good creature feature that could have been a great creature feature with the use of puppetry instead of CGI, better color grading, and maybe a runtime that was slightly longer so as to allow the film to explore more "strange happenings" around the small town.
VERDICT: Definitely worth a watch. You may not rewatch it much, but it's a great film first-time through.
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