As Night Falls (2010)

Strong and Moving!

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

As Night Falls currently sits with a 2.7 rating on IMDB and that's incredibly low, it generally takes a special kind of movie to acquire that.It tells the rather cliched tale of a bunch of 20 somethings getting picked off one by one by a malevolent force. Advertised as a comedy horror I can confidently say it is lacking on the comedy, in fact it outwardly only has one single moment that felt out of place in a horror movie.It looks okay, the cast are passable so what went wrong?The story is generic is hell, it's pace is dreadful and makes for some really hard viewing. Then ontop of that the sound editing is some of the worst I've ever heard. The volume not only randomly dips but goes altogether mute for several seconds at a time. How does something like this get released? How did the creators not notice?I'd say it had potential but I'd be lying. It's as generic as they come.The Good:Most aspects are competent enoughThe Bad:Some awful editing both video and audioInconsistent tonesDumb finaleThings I Learnt From This Movie:They never explained why the girl had a giant gob stopped in her eyesocket!

I was lured by the movie's cover/poster and the fact that it was a horror movie. Admittably, I didn't know anything about the movie or who starred in it prior to finding it. But my love for the horror genre made me pick up "As Night Falls" and give it a chance......a chance that I should have skipped on."As Night Falls" turned out to be a rather boring and mundane horror movie at best. It failed to really entertain me, and it didn't bring anything new to the horror genre. It felt like it trotted through its storyline blindfolded.And speaking of the storyline, then it was not really any type of interesting. And I often found my attention to the movie drifting away to my phone for example. I did, however, decide to stay with the movie right to the very end, If there has just been something to justify this as being a horror movie, it would have been so much better, an improvement for sure. But there wasn't, and it made it feel prolonged to sit through an hour and twenty minutes waiting for something scary to happen.The acting in "As Night Falls" was as to be expected from a movie such as this, for better or worse. I will say that I am sure that people actually were putting on their best performances.If you enjoy a good comedy, then you should definitely find something with a lot more kick and bite to it than "As Night Falls". Providing that you actually make it through the first time you watch "As Night Falls", I doubt that you will be returning for a second viewing.My rating of this movie is a mere 3 out of 10 stars.