When Darkness Falls (2022)

• Year: 2022
• Released: N/A
• Country: United Kingdom
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• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13330168/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/when_darkness_falls
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• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English
• MPA Rating: N/A
• Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
• Runtime: 105 min
• Writer: Tom Jolliffe, Nathan Shepka
• Director: Nathan Shepka
• Cast: Ben Brinicombe, Michaela Longden, Tony Macdonald
• Keywords: mysterious,

4.4/10

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When Darkness Falls Movie Reviews

An homage to 80’s slasher movies

Warning — Spoilers!

I went into this movie with high expectations since it had a good rating. Also, I like the Scottish Highlands. I am left sorely disappointed.

The acting is mostly okay, I guess, and the countryside is beautiful. I am sorry this is the only good I can really say.

There were far too many situation where people did things that made absolutely NO SENSE. Here we have two young American women hiking through desolate hills without cell phones. I grant that one of them had a hidden agenda… but the other so easily complied? Then when they know that a man is spying on them from a nearby hill, the woman pulls up her shirt and waves! The next day, they go to a pub and meet two strangers. They leave their beers unattended to get the drinks “roofed.”

Later on, one woman points a gun at one of the bad guys while standing two feet in front of him – he can practically touch it! The man suggests that the woman check the corpse on the ground to see if there’s a pulse… When she bends down, he snatches the gun. Big surprise!

There are myriad scenes where someone is pretty sure they had killed an adversary. They turn their back with relief only to have the “dead person” jump up to attack again.

There was an excessive amount of squirting blood in the fighting. People’s faces were regularly covered. It was too much and a sad waste of tomato sauce.

There are serious timing problems. One example: When one guy draws a man out of his house, the woman is supposed to enter it to see if her friend is there. She goes in and walks around so slowly. She drops her coat on the floor before slowly climbing the stairs. Why not hurry it up? The man would likely return at any moment!

Finally, too many bizarre coincidences. The woman escaping from the bad guys spends a night alone and resumes hiking the next day. She passes the very cottage that the bad guys are living in and sees one of them on the back porch. He also sees her before going inside. Why didn’t he chase her? Why didn’t she run to get the police? But no. She approaches the cottage and spies on the man through the window. Perfect timing, since he gets stabbed by someone in the cottage!

This movie would have been MUCH more enjoyable if the characters were smarter. I get annoyed when I see someone does something unrealistic and dumb. I guess when it comes to slasher movies, common sense is not so common.

LONG boring stupid and predictable

There are less than 10 characters in this movie and all are ancillary except 5. Figure out the plot. Very poor acting. And just a ridiculous story too. I can’t imagine ever leaving a friend in a bar with strange weird men and walking off into the country alone. This has way too high a rating and was one of the worst movies I’ve seen this year. It has a lot of ridiculous and silly dialogue on top of the poor acting. They also act like the women are far out alone in the country but you can see the road and a car going by. No attention to any detail on top of the poor plot. Very low budget and unwatchable.

Simmer, bubble, boil!

Two girls from America go hiking across the Scottish Highlands. Meanwhile two ne’er do wells are travelling across, robbing remote mansions and roofying local ladies. Of course both pairings will meet. Something about the immovable object meeting an unstoppable force? Starting with shades of American Werewolf without the werewolf, this then ventures into And Soon the Darkness meets Vanishing, before descending into a twist filled 90’s cable thriller (in the best possible way). All it needed was Eric Roberts.

Despite a low budget, the film achieves its goals. A lot of micro budget cinema tends to feel very non-descript with their locations, often confining the action to a few cheap places and feeling like you could be anywhere. Not so here, as When Darkness Falls slowly builds, displaying sprawling Scottish backdrops (a rare abundance of drone shots which don’t feel unnecessary) that are sparse and rugged. When Andrea disappears, Jess must find her in a landscape near devoid of people (and the few she meets are less than friendly). I won’t say too much as the second act kicks off into a twisty turny pot boiler. Michaela Longden does a great job, as does Emma O’Hara. Director/producer/actor/editor/caterer? Nathan Shepka checks every role off with flying colours. The film looks great, the score is pleasingly Carpenter-esque, and despite the kind of rough edges that are unavoidable on something that was apparently shot for 25k (though looks substantially more), this really did entertain. The artwork and trailer intrigued me and I’m glad I took the punt.