Dead Night

An utterly tragic monstrosity! And I was quite confident: decent preliminary responses in Rotten Tomatoes, Barbara Crampton and AJ Bowen (two of my favourites in indie horror), the attractive setting of an abandoned cabin in the mountains. Even the first scene gave me hope for a well made simple forest slasher flick with some kind of weird mutants, but what follows is incredible. Absolute chaos, where everything is mixed up, and never well. Baruh’s method is limited to the constant use of a leading score (there’s always something playing!) and slow motion shots. Nothing in this films works the way the author intended; I haven’t seen such directorial impotence in a long time. And on top of all that, it is really stupid. I wouldn’t mind that in a slasher flick if it didn’t try to be God knows what. I burst out laughing in the last scene before the end credits, when it appeared that the creators wanted to squeeze some political connotation. (27.07.2018)