After Midnight (1989)
A college professor teaching a course called "The Psychology of Fear" brings his students (including a psychic) to his home, one dark and stormy night to tell scary stories. The first involves a young couple whose car breaks down by an old, abandoned house. The second has four trendy teenage girls getting lost in a bad part of town and chased by a pack of vicious dogs. Last, a woman on crutches confronting a stalker at the answering service where she works the night shift.
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Highly Overrated But Still Good
It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.
Blistering performances.
Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.
Okay, I just read a review of this movie and the guy says this movie is PG-13. Where the heck did you get that rating from? It says it is rated R, and no where else says PG-13 for this movie. Someone has lost his marbles. Need to go find them dude.One of the best Anthology movies, but not the best. Most of the 80s anthologies are very good compared to the newer ones. This one pulls you in and really takes you into the horror at the end. I really enjoy these kind of horror movies.Just not that many done in the 90s or 2000s. I wish there were though. I really like catching this on Comet television network. That I saw it quite a few times now. Creepy, but I do not get scared easily, and PG- 13 horror is a no scary movie at all for me.Lack of everything a rated R horror movie should have from a PG-13 horror. So there is no way this one was PG-13. Guy that said that is nuts. Must of been on something to say that. Check it out.
Somebody must have had some really good, rich friends to get a 3 million budget for this nonsense... the stories are downright stupid, its almost unbearable... Any kids-vampire-banana story is more realistic than accidentally chopping of somebodies head at a surprise birthday party, killer-knife-hobos or dogs that can see but not smell around corners... Somehow the writers managed to make EVERY character in this movie a massive moron. They had to because if anybody ever acted smart all those stories would have ended after 2 minutes with somebody simply walking, running or driving away... The framework story is worse. Please don't employ the word psychology if you no NOTHING about it. The "professor" is plain ridiculous... Bad actors repeating over and over "oh it's so scary", "aaaah i'm so afraid" is annoying but not creepy... And ending with "oops it was all a dream" is possibly the worst thing you can do with an anthology movie.
After watching "After Midnight", I find it hard to believe that a major studio (MGM/UA) picked up this independent production. Though at the same time, I can understand why this major studio decided to not give it a big release. This is an unscary and lazy movie that doesn't seem to fully understand what the audience expects in a horror anthology. Two of the four stories told in the movie have no twists at the end! Two of the stories also start off with the same premise (drivers in a remote area getting car problems.) And each of the stories has things that don't make sense when you think about them afterwards. The only good thing about the movie was some fairly impressive stop-motion animation near the very end, but that only lasts a few seconds. Even if you love horror anthologies like I do, you can safely skip this one.
Well...I liked this movie as a matter of fact, it was cool in its time and now a days its dated but its still spooky in some bits. Lets talk about the stories: The First one is about a couple who gets their car stalled in the road, in the middle of nowhere and they have to go and ask for the phone in an old house, did anyone say "cliche", now, everybody knows that its better to stay in the car, get something to use as a weapon in case of someone really attacking you and breaking the windows of the car and try to stay calm,sleep and wait till the next day when you can walk or wait for help, in this story they do the complete opposite and go to the house, Big mistake, but later you find out it was destined for them to go there and something horrible to happen. The second story talks about a problem that usually happens, women love to ask for directions, man doesn't, in this film 4 girls ask for directions in a place they don't know and to a guy so damn dirty that i wouldn't even give a dime to....of course they get in trouble..and big trouble...This story reminds me of that Emilio Estevez film about some guys getting lost on the bronx...man its creepy. The third one is a Twilight Zone must cause it has all the mood to a half hour show..about a girl that works at a call center and she gets harassed and someone starts to stalk her. The movie is O.K but its very surreal at th ending and then they show why it happened that way. ::::::::::::::SPOILER:::::::::::::::::: Its all about a LOOP HOLE IN TIME.......you can see it in Back to the future.