Review of Dark Was the Night (2014) by Jeremy P — 20 Jan 2016

I initially didn't mind the slow build-up to the monster scenes until I realized why they did it - they cheaped out on hiring a computer graphics animator to design the spirit monsters. I am definitely not one of those people who puts a lot of stock in amazing computer generated imagery, but it was late-'80s, early-'90s quality work.

Technically speaking it wasn't a terrible movie, it was tonally consistent, the pacing was a bit slow but not as bad as 'The Shining'. But in terms of horror/scariness the film flopped because it didn't focus on the monster-element enough and, at many points, watched more like a mystery than a horror.

Ending the movie with a screen littered with very silly CGI monsters was a disservice to a film that had good camera and sound work without the laziness of jump scares.