NipPierce Wow, this is a REALLY bad movie!

Lawbolisted Powerful

ThrillMessage There are better movies of two hours length. I loved the actress'performance.

Humaira Grant It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

ezra-52172 ****THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS****Were do I begin? I'll start with the plot.A bunch of high school kids ditch the school dance to steal a bus and drive to a cabin for weekend of fun and drinking. The cabin is owned by one of the characters who is ridding in the bus. The bus breaks down, or does it run out of gas? This movie is so bad it doesn't matter.This ordinary slasher movie has some really dumb characters in it. Question. If Jeffrey Dahmer were alive today, and you knew he was a serial killer, and you where he lived, would you go to his residence? I hope the answer is no. Logic would dictate that you don't!These characters kept going back to the place where a cannibalistic, homicidal killer was residing and doing all the killing. Basically saying, "here I am, come and kill me please." Also, there was little to no effort put in to try and fight the killer. Even with crude weapons at their disposal. I've heard of strength in numbers, but not rank stupidity in numbers.My gosh. That's an hour and some change I'll never get back. Do yourself a favor. Stay away from this stinker!

GL84 Sneaking out from a high-school dance, a group of friends get stranded in the woods on their way to a gathering at a family cabin and find their trip interrupted by a deranged killer picking them off one-by- one and must try to find a way to get away alive.This here was quite the enjoyable and fun old-school inspired slasher. The fact that there's the rather fun and somewhat authentic feel of the 80s comes through as the film's best effort with plenty of truly great throwbacks here. The main setting in the house, which has the cramped and confined location and really dark look throughout here which is a great touch here that really throws this into that style quite effectively as well as giving the killer the kind of perfectly set- up location that makes a killing spree there rather fun. Those early scenes of the house walk-throughs, where they get to see the decrepit-looking location and completely mangled remains that looks like the perfectly-created setting for the killer to appear and it seems certainly appropriate once it gets going in the later half once they finally encounter him. That takes the film into a fun turn as the change-over into the slashing makes this one a quite impressive effort as there's a lot to like here, starting with the discovery of the body-part construction in the living room and segueing into the great scene of the killer taking the group apart which features the big charge across the open field into the barn, the few solid parts into the big part of the house or the numerous encounters throughout the house as he appears in a variety of different rooms to deliver some rather fun times. This gets better here with the rather fun and exciting scenes in the final half as there's plenty of even more fun encounters throughout here as the action picks up considerably and gets way more frantic as the varying attacks gets this one even better with the different confrontations and thrilling action. With a great- looking killer and plenty of gory kills packed in here, there's plenty to like here that makes for enough positive to like here to overcome the few minor flaws here. The biggest problem is the film's rather stumbling pace in the first half where this takes a while to really get going. Filled with all sorts of extraneous plot-points that don't really impact the film as a whole or pointlessly dragging out scenes beyond their worth, there's a rather long period of time in the first half before it turns into a true slasher which holds this one back somewhat. As well, there's also the fact that the film's homaging of the past ends up hurting it in several instances, where it's incredibly too dark at spots to make it feel like a true occurrence at the time and really giving away it's gimmick-pretense. The missing-reel gag is also a big problem where it really spoils a big scene in the film and ends up being a gimmick for no reason. Otherwise, this was quite fun.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language and minor drug use.

DareDevilKid Reviewed by: Dare Devil Kid (DDK)Rating: 3.2/5 stars"Lost After Dark" is adorable. That may not be the comment the filmmakers of a horror movie are looking for, but it suits the tone of this particular movie anyway. It's shot in the style of cheesy '80s horror movies – the "Friday the 13th" and "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" knockoffs that we love for their sheer audacity and ability to poke fun at themselves.Adrienne (Kendra Leigh Timmins) and her friends ditch the high school dance to spend time alone at her cabin. She, Jamie (Elise Gatien), Marilyn (Eve Harlow), and Heather (Lanie McAuley) all hope to hook up with Sean (Justin Kelly), Johnnie (Alexander Calvert), Wesley (Stephan James), and Tobe (Jesse Camacho) in some combination or the other, and it would also be Adrienne's first time. But the school bus they steal breaks down and they end up in a murder house running for their lives. Also the vice principal, Mr. Cunningham a.k.a. Mr. C (Robert Patrick) catches them leaving, and chases after them. The cast is just lovely at playing their archetypes: the virgin, the slut, the jock, the A- hole, the nerdy best friend, etc. Pacing gets a tad uneven when the makers dedicate too much time showing Mr. Cunningham pursuing the kids, but the payoff is worth it and Patrick kills it.Writer/director Ian Kessner along with co-writer Bo Ransdell get the tone exactly right. "Lost After Dark" is a loving homage that is all sincere, no snark. It does break the rules for some clever twists, but it never makes fun of the horror movies it's inspired from. Rather, the film celebrates those movies in a way that shows we don't have to give this style up just yet – it can still be as much fun as it used to be. You might also recognize a few of the gags from "Grindhouse" but they are arguably better done here. The picture is treated with an effect to simulate a dirty film print, but it's minor and only in the beginning and to simulate splices and reel changes.Along with being as brutal and graphic as any other straight-faced horror movie out there, "Lost After Dark" is also an intriguing attempt to recreate the style of a slasher straight out of the 80s, and for the better part succeeds in its attempt.

lathe-of-heaven I pretty much agree with the others here (4 so far) The director did a nice job of setting up the characters and the general feeling of the era pretty well, but ultimately and unfortunately there really just wasn't much of a story to go along with it.The ironic thing is that usually it is SPECIFICALLY the acting itself that is so atrocious in these low-budget Horror films and many times completely ruins what could have been a good story (please see my review of the recent Gawd-Awful 'HONEYMOON' for example) But... in this case, the characters and the acting itself were just fine for the type of film it is, BUT everything else just didn't really add up to much. So, in this case it turned out kind of backwards from the way many other films seem to go...As mentioned by others, Robert Patrick was good in his role and the girl's Dad was just about right. Too bad... because almost ALWAYS, it is precisely the terrible acting or characters that are so grating in films like this, but these ones here are actually fairly decent compared to most. So, it leaves you feeling that you really would have liked to see them in the context of a much better story, but that is just the way it seemed to turn out, in my lowly and wretched opinion.Heh... I kind of feel that my REVIEW is rather shallow too, but quite honestly, there just isn't much more to say. I gave it a '5' only because I thought the setting, characters, and actors were pretty decent, otherwise the story overall would have gotten less...So, basically.... move along home... nothing to see here...