Synopsis
Aliens crash the party.
On Saint Patrick's day—a night of wild parties and drunken revelry—three unlikely friends band together to save a college town from a vicious horde of body-snatching aliens.
Directed by Brandon Zuck
On Saint Patrick's day—a night of wild parties and drunken revelry—three unlikely friends band together to save a college town from a vicious horde of body-snatching aliens.
Into the Dark: Crawlers, Invasores, A Invasão, Pub Crawl, A sötétség titkai - Szt. Patrik nap, Навстречу тьме 2: По барам, Into the Dark 18: Crawlers
The aliens were kinda dumb for invading a college town where every time someone drives in a car the background turns into bad Green Screen.
> You know what? This isn't bad. It's better than I thought it would be.
The concept of extraterrestrial beings attacking young people in a college town and then shapeshifting into their victims is an interesting idea for a film. However, there is one thing that confuses me: why would someone store their drug dealer's contact information in their phone under the name "drug dealer"? Wouldn't using a less obvious name such as Fred, Rebecca, or Domino's make more sense? Apart from this confusion, the film is decent, but it's not something that I would include in my top 100 list. It reminds me of the concept and the alien robots from "The World's End."
Series: Into The Dark Ranked
Year: 2020 Ranked
If you have read any of my Into the Dark reviews, its pretty clear that, excluding just a few entries, I fucking loathe the series. Yet, somehow, it keeps pulling me back into it. I think it most likely is the feeling of satisfaction you gain from finding a gem after wading tirelessly through shit. It has happened three times with the series, and hopefully one day will happen a fourth time.
That day is unfortunately not today. Instead I got to experience another absolute bottom of the barrel in every regard horror film. The biggest issue with Into the Dark is that it tries to be extremely "woke" and take on…
The latest installment of Hulu's Into The Dark series is centered around St. Patrick's Day where a group of college kids end up battling shape shifting aliens. Probably the most voice over narrating I've ever seen in a film. 80 min of which 15 mins are probably voice narrated by the lead character. Lots of green hues, skeevy college brodudes, body hopping aliens, some green goo, really shitty bestie backstabbers, and a shotgun toting mom!
Feels like a alien invasion for the Degrassi Generation. Needed way more alien goo, gore, and an actual glimpse of the aliens would've been cool.
Not bad but easily forgettable. Another one where the awesome poster promises so much more fun than the actual film delivers.
5 out of 10
How do you do fellow teens do you guys like DRUGS?! *Freeze frame* here's an insignificant piece of information that makes no difference. *dubstep needle drop* Mechanically engineered to say absolutely nothing and do absolutely nothing with drab and ugly diarrhea color grading and shitty green screen poop. Like every creative choice is informed by putting in as little effort as humanly possible. Lazy and quirky St. Paddy's slop you can pass on.
I should dock it a half star for all the goddamn freeze frames. If anyone involved cares about my lbxd rating, send Giorgia a gift basket for keeping it at 3.
Very weird concept of a movie. It reminded me so much of The Faculty that I couldn’t enjoy it cuz I compared it some much.
If you're gonna write a conspiracy theorist character into your film, at least make them talk about some interesting deep conspiracy theories and not just basic ass "aliens exist, moon landing fake, feds spy on you" shit.
This was one script rewrite away from being good. They really should have rethought redeeming the frat dude to shoehorn a #notallmen into this shit, like, he never addressed the question of why if he's not with the rapeyness does he still live in the rape house and hang out with the rapists? Fuck that dude and his Jonathan Schaech ass frosted tips and his hero turn.
Cf. Night of the Creeps