Name: Night Light (2015)
IMDb: link to IMDb
Genres: Horror Country of Origin: USA.
Cast: Shelby Young as Robin, Chloe Bridges as Nia, Taylor Murphy as Amelia,Carter Jenkins as Chris, Mitch Hewer as Ben, Kyle Fain as Ethan.
Written and directed by: Scott Beck and Bryan Woods.
The initial tableaux: There is a short do it yourself video of Ethan, a depressed male teen, discussing his failed suicide attempt, plus his attachment to Robin. We jump to five teens (Robin; Nia, Amelia, Chris, and Ben) starting a flashlight gaming night in the Covington Woods. The woods has a reputation as a place where teens commit suicide, and where ghosts reside. Plus, there is a scary church located within it.
Delineation of conflicts: Robin has a job as a service person at an ice cream parlor. Nia and Amelia look down on employment. Robin is the newbie in the group, and the rest plan to haze her. Something in the woods does not like any of them. The plans for hazing seem to get replaced by other plans. Robin would like to live through the night and go home with her dog, but the wood seems opposed.
Resolution: Elimination derby.
One line summary: Shaky cam elimination derby in scary woods.
Statistics:
a. Cinematography: 0/10 Shaky cam, poorly done, with insufficient light, odd angles, bad focus, flickering flashlights.
b. Sound: 3/10 I could hear the dialog clearly. Too many failed jump scares blunted my interest in the sound track. The endless audible breathing and crunching of forest floor litter did not help either.
c. Acting: 1/10 Poor.
d. Screenplay: 1/10 Enough pointless swearing for 10 films. Panicked appeals to religion and superstition about ghosts just sounded incoherent. As per usual, no adult supervision is in evidence, and the teens are each as stupid as a bag of rocks. They separate, they undermine each other, they panic. The incident with the bear trap was just too much, and that was just one of many.
Final rating: 1/10
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