The Long Night

While The Long Night may not be revolutionary, it's definitely got its own dark magic.

Even the most indulgent of genre fans will find The Long Night a chore to sit through.

Neither the spooky backwoods tropes or the deranged death cult can muster the kind of tension this movie desperately needs.

In with a whimper, out with a smatter of blood, leaving audiences scratching their heads.

The Long Night is a beautiful to look at, dark film with some truly tense moments, some sequences that are actually surprising, and a few images that will stick with the viewer for a while afterwards.

Everyone involved does the best with what they're given, perhaps saving The Long Night from being even more forgettable. The script does none of them any favors by fearing its own mythology and hiding it in a way that makes it seem like it has none.

The Long Night is more concerned with atmosphere than trying to do anything new or engaging with its tired "trapped in a house" slasher formula.

The Long Night tries to work with scary masks and jump scares, which is not enough to make an entertaining horror movie.

While "The Long Night" possesses some interesting ideas and clever narrative structure, its reliance on atmospherics is ultimately reductive to the whole making it feel like the film would be stronger as a short rather than a feature.

Fresh out of new ways to say derivative, recycled, cut-and-pasted and for old schoolers, photocopied or carbon copy about a movie without an original thought or image in its makeup.