Dark Was the Night

Deux acteurs secondaires connus renforcent l'atmosphère du film d'horreur de série B à petit budget. La psychologisation du personnage principal traumatisé est appréciée, jouée par Kevin Durand, elle est crédible. L'atmosphère de la petite ville américaine d'automne est également bonne, ses habitants simples sont une proie facile pour la créature. Et la tonalité triste et sombre, chargée d'une musique sombre et de filtres de caméra froids, lui donne une identité puissante. Il ne faut juste pas s'attendre à des idées de scénario révolutionnaires ou à des monstres effrayants. Ceux-ci n'apparaissent que brièvement et sont une déception totale avec leur conception artistique et leur réalisation numérique. Trois étoiles avec les oreilles qui se dressent. (27/04/2016)

Dark Was the Night isn't a bad film at all; rather, it's unremarkable, with its biggest issue being that it simply lacks originality. But it's made well, in such a way that you'll enjoy it. Plus, there's a monster that basically doesn't appear the whole time, you only see hints of it, or only what it left behind. In that respect, it's a good craftsmanship that's worth checking out. (12/05/2016)

The headphones + darkness conjured up a really solid atmospheric experience. Decent visuals, a decent Kevin Durand, a stifling atmosphere and setting. What surprised me was that this is not a werewolf movie, but a monster horror movie with a nice looking creature at the end (it is only shown in glimpses throughout the film). Although the film has a slower to depressing pace, which I usually can't stand, I surprisingly didn't get bored this time. The finale in the church will rip the adrenaline out of you. 65%. (25/07/2015)

Heller doesn’t lack talent, he proved that already in his début Enter Nowhere. In his second film he delivers a solid monster horror story with a creature that terrorises a small town, first killing the pets and then inhabitants. It’s slow, sombre and with bleached colours. Heller is competent at building an atmosphere, but it’s a shame that when the monster is fully revealed in the end I was quite disappointed; it was better when all you could see were the claws or its silhouette. But the main problem I have (and the reason I’m sticking to a safe three-star rating) is that, given the premise and the straightforward script, Dark Was the Night is almost absurdly serious. Plot-wise it’s just and ordinary monster B-movie, and the script doesn’t even try to be original or creative in any way, but the characters at times act and speak as if they were in a Dostoevsky play. (25/07/2015)

Dark Was the Night is a very enjoyable, non-offensive monster one-biter that pleases with its mysterious greyish atmosphere, which is surrounded by a lot of emotions and an unsettling aura. Many people criticized the film for taking its genre too seriously, but that didn't bother me this time, nor did it annoy me. Kevin Durand here looks like he has bees flying around his face throughout the entire runtime, but he fit into the role nicely. What caught me off guard a bit more was the appearance of the monster, which could easily have been a bit more frightening or at least entirely on a different basis. That's probably the only thing that I would take as a big negative here. Otherwise, this film is really digestible, it's just nothing groundbreaking. An average film that I will forget about in a year, but it's not a waste of time to watch it. (25/09/2015)