Lost After Dark (2014)

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

How very... scary! This was totally cool, narly and rad all in one fun but super ultra scary affair. It was done really well, it had the camp and fun of the 80's but underneath it bore all the trimmings of the super scary 70's stylistic just plain eerily distant and holistically existential - just indifferent immaterial POV that leaves one so freaked out. I say a must for fans of a very scary Genre!

The film takes place in Broomfield, Michigan 1984 (filmed in Canada, okay.). GO LANCERS! Four teen couples take off for a nearby cabin, but run out of gas along the way, making their way to the minor subplot home of the proverbial feral slasher cannibal. The opening of the film attempts to do an old grindhouse film by having film marks ingrained in it, something that didn't work really great in "Planet Terror." However, instead of doing the entire feature this way, they just do the opening scene, while the rest of the film is in crisp digital, except for one critical scene where they pull the "scene missing" film burning nonsense. The movie uses stuff from the 80's such as a Rubik's Cube, mix cassette tape, LPs decorating the wall, T-shirts, magazines, clothes with studs, pot that requires a few joints to get high, and a picture of Reagan. Robert Patrick plays a politically incorrect principal. Perhaps he was another 80's throwback.The film had the token Black Guy (Stephan James) and virgin (Kendra Leigh Timmins) so we know who dies first and who survives...right? After they discover the slasher, the plan is to wait it out in his house until morning rather than to run away in different directions. Otherwise the film would be too short. It does contain some humor, but only when you consider it as a spoof of 80's slashers.Guide; F-bomb. Implied oral sex. No nudity.

This 2015 horror features 8 teenage friends who decide to ditch their high school dance and have a party of their own. They borrow a school bus which runs out of gas and look for the nearest residence. They find an old house and become stalked by a cannibalistic killer lurking there. What can I say? This is a weak slasher flick that tries to pay tribute/homage to 70's & 80's films of the genre. It starts OK, but falls flat. The characters aren't really likable, some scenes are very dark and the deaths aren't that impressive. Robert Patrick (The Faculty) appears as an ex-army soldier turned vice principal. I'd probably watch this once only if you're a fan of slasher or Grindhouse films.

Disclaimer: I am a huge fan of 80s slasher movies so it doesn't take much to impress me: this was BORING. I spent 4 bucks on the Amazon rental and regretted it from the beginning. If you want to see a movie that conjures 80s slasher nostalgia with substance and entertainment, watch The Final Girls (mix of nostalgia, horror, and heart that is perfectly mixed). This one has some "cute points" with the naming of characters (e.g. Adrienne, Tobe, Jamie) but beyond that, there is nothing. You can never tell if it is trying to be a scary parody or horror movie with comedic elements. Heck, it takes forever to get to any kind of blood! And when it does come, you don't even care...you don't even hate the dumb characters enough to care if they live or die. You just wait for the end credits so you can pop in Friday the 13th Part 2 and see a REAL slasher movie.