Fear The Night

I don´t know about you but there are some TV series that stick on my mind for a number of reasons. TV series that you enjoyed watching, epsecially because of the main actor of the whole show. That is exactly why i enjoyed watching the 2010 Tv series known as Nikita with actress Maggie Q ( yes the bad ass chick from Die Hard 4.0 ). Nikita was exactly the kind of TV series i could just turn on just to enjoy myself watching classic assassination action. It was in no way intelligent or ground breaking, it was just pure action entertainment. I should probably mention that Nikita TV series is based on the 1990 cult classic French action film Nikita from director Luc Besson. If you have not seen Nikita TV series with Maggie Q i would recommend that you check it out. Speaking of actress Maggie Q she have done quite a lot of films in her career so far. And it´s not only action films, she have tried other genres as well such as the 2020 comedy The Argument. She have also tried doing horror films as well and especially one of them that i enjoyed is called Death Of Me. Released in 2020 from director Darren Lynn Boseman, this film tells the story of a couple on vacation in Thailand who discover a very strange video of themselves killing each other. Did this really happen or is there another explanation to this video? Death Of Me is actually quite a different kind of horror film than i usually see. Is it original in any way? Perhaps not but i do think the plot of this film is interesting. I know some movie critics would disagree with me but i would actually recommmend you to check it out. Maggie Q released a new film this year called Fear The Night that seemed to be a home invasion thriller, and since i am a fan of this genre i was curious to see if this film would be any good. Is it possible Fear The Night is one of the better home invasion thrillers in recent years, or should you watch the excellent home invasion film You´re Next ( my favourite film in this specific genre ) instead?

A group of female friends gather to celebrate a bachelorette party in a cabin out in the desert. What they don´t know is that a grop of criminals are looking for something hidden in their cabin and they are willing to kill anyone who stands in their way.

If you for some reason were hoping for a surprising twist or anything original in Fear The Night, i can tell you right away you are not going to find it here. This is a quite a typical home invasion thriller that we have seen in the past, the only difference is that this is actually a bachelorette party that gets invaded by strangers. Not a bad idea itself since there are plenty of films taking on the subject of a bachelorette party. Since i know actress Maggie Q have done several action films and she have proved herself to be good at doing physical action roles, i will have to say that Fear The Night is actually a disappointment. The idea surrounding criminals attacking a house out in the middle of nowhere with crossbows to attack is actually a fun idea. Why use a gun if you can kill people with arrows and no one will hear you shooting someone? On a positive note this film starts off pretty good with the women gathering to go celebrate together. Even the bachelorette party also starts off promising. I especially enjoy the performance of actor Geoff Pierson ( who you might recognize from TV series Dexter ) as Sheriff Bullard, too bad he wasn´t in more scenes in this film. Ok so let´s get into the problems with this film and let us begin with the criminals. If you want to make the attack scenes more effective you have to have cool evil characters. These men in this film are not good at portraying dangerous criminals. You don´t really feel threatened by them that much at all, perhaps only their leader might be the only one that at least does some kind of effort to look unstable. What about the acting? I wouldn´t say all of the actors are completely terrible, it´s just that their characters are not very interesting. You don´t really connect with any of the girls really other than Maggie Q´s character Tess. Speaking of Maggie Q i feel that she´s holding too much back in this film. She should have been killing more, show her survival mode even more than what we get in Fear The Night. Is this a horrible survival thriller? No, it´s just a little too boring to be honest. If you want to make a home invasion thriller work you have to put in some effort into the attacking scenes. Director Neil LaBute ( who directed the great thriller Lakeview Terrace ) have some cool ideas surrounding Fear The Night. It´s a shame he didn´t work harder on them and we might actually have a cool home invasion thriller here. As it stands now i don´t think many people will remember Fear The Night once they have watched this film.

Rating: DD