Started off with some strong ideas but quickly squandered them.  There are problems with the editing techniques being over used ad nauseam and effects that look like they were made on a Commodore 64.  This had potential, you can see all the ways it could be good but they took a different route and ruined it.  Someone somewhere owed someone a HUGE favor because they managed to get Michael Shannon in this for 10 mins.  Even at 1h 21m it drags and feels twice as long.  Bottom line, the movie just didn’t do it for me.

A dude walks around his supposedly haunted apartment drinking and talking to friends on his laptop via zoom. He grows increasingly paranoid in the apartment as he thinks there is something supernatural going on. I dug the gloomy atmosphere in his apartment. There's paper covering the windows in his apartment so it's always dark. Unfortunately the lead is bland and so is everything else. The last 20 minutes was a big step up from the dullness of the film's first hour at least. This was a one star film for me up until the entertaining climax.

A mildly intriguing psychological horror devolves into silly supernatural zoom call nonsense. First of all, the use of light throughout the film is phenomenal and it has as an important message behind it. However, it fails to elevate its premise above its clumsy execution and its silly ending dilutes the actual message it tries to deliver. I feel like in the second half, they try so hard to capture the success of Host. It gets sillier and sillier as it goes but not as fun as they think it is and never quite makes sense. Overall, it's not the worst thing but mostly stupid and forgettable.

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Sometimes I'm easy to please and this simple, but effective, darkly humorous webcast haunting movie made me smile and laugh a little bit. I can see how some would be like "not for me" nor would I recommend it to most, I smiled and that's all I wanted. Good visuals and early there's a nice creepy atmosphere that leaves in place of the humor.

Didn't expect Michael Shannon to be in this, that was a suprise.

Nights end starts well, taking its time and building up the suspense and scares very subtly and building up the main characters background, story and personality but then the film takes a turn for the silly and tries to cram too much in, going overboard in the last part of the film, with an ending that shows too much and goes way over the top. Disappointing.

Michael Shannon, my guy, what are you doing here

Boring; constrained; short; silly; thin; unscary; well-cast.

Someone involved in this must have some dirt on Michael Shannon

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Do you ever just want the night to end, but the night’s end seems to never come? This is the epitome of Jennifer Reeder’s apt Night’s End. The Knives and Skin director, with writer Brett Neveu, craft a film about one man’s horrific night. But what is, at first, a frightening, introspective, and isolated ghost story, takes an unfortunate nose dive. The audience is suddenly content and relieved at the night’s end, more so than even the protagonist.

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Knives and Skin is one of the big things I think of when I think of films that I was meh, iffy about, meant nothing to me when I first saw them, and yet I keep thinking about and eventually I rewatch and it grows on me and it's like damn, that actually was pretty great/amazing

Embarrassed that the director made this and the V/H/S/94 wraparound segment in its aftermath. Almost feels like a fluke