Fear the Night

You can tell from the title, or at least I could, that this movie is meant to be tongue in cheek. Come on. Fear the Night. It's a terrible title. This movie is violence for the sake of violence. It's ridiculous story lines for the sake of violence. It's a wonderful, funny, campy 90 minutes of darkly comical gratuitous violence. The movie is categorized incorrectly, which is attracting the wrong viewers. It's not an action/thriller movie. It's a horror satire. But if you are entertained by movies with silly plots, ridiculous scenarios and a heaping helping of killing and mayhem, then you will like this movie as much as I did.

The film opens with a bad teaser. Tess (Maggie Q) is ex-special forces and teaches self-defense in elementary school. She is 6 months sober and hates the world. She is snarky and bitter. She does not get along with her sister Beth (Kat Foster) but they tolerate each other. Their sister Rose (Highdee Kuan) is having a bachlorette party at their parents remote house as the film has all the elements of a cabin-in-the-woods film including the stop at the store with a confrontation along the way. Tess is moody and aloft as an arrow pierces the chest of one of the girls. Our protagonist was not exciting and lacked personality. The party and build-up was not good. Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity.