If you like screams with your horror flicks, you’ll love this one. The poor protagonist, Grace (Scout Taylor-Compton) is going to bellow a boatload of screams over the course of The Long Night. No spoilers are within this review.
Grace and her boyfriend (Nolan Gerard Funk) head from New York to the Deep South on a mission: Grace is looking for her parents, who she’s never known. She’s gotten a tip from a man who lives in their area and may know their whereabouts.. Over the phone he invites the couple to stay in his house while they’re in the area. If he’s not there, just use the key hidden under the plant.
Well, guess what?
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Using the key, they let themselves in – it’s a gorgeous modern house sitting on a big plot of land. I guess it’s a southern plantation, but it looks well maintained like a Country Club on a golf course. So, dude is not there and the phone service is too spotty to get him on the line.
So they wait.
And by nightfall, a group of scary people wearing animal skull masks stand side-by-side in the backyard. They don’t look friendly.
True to its title, what follows is a night of Grace and BF being terrorized by the cult and its maniacal leader.
But it’s not just a home invasion flick, it turns out there’s a point. The reveal will finally let the couple (and us) in on how Grace is on the way to fulfilling an ancient prophecy. And I won’t say more.
The film’s sense of location and art direction are top shelf. The actors well cast. Scout Taylor-Compton is a veteran of the Horror genre.
Me personally? I’m never really scared of films with cults as the villains. In this case, I found their costumes more silly than scary, and the house is almost too awesome to be frightening.
But a lot of horror fans love setups like this, and, for them, this might be just the ticket.
