The Long Night Review: Get Out Meets Midsommar In This Average Horror Flick
The Long Night is not going to knock anyone's socks off, but it also doesn’t waste much of one's time. Directed and composed by Rich Ragsdale (Eight Legged Freaks), with a script by Robert Sheppe (Ghost House 2) and Mark Young (Lost In Paradise), the horror flick is at times better than it looks. And while it's occasionally worse than it looks, the average scene is somewhere in between. There are some comparisons that make you wonder if all horror movies subconsciously share the same DNA or if this is half Midsommar and half Get Out. And though leads Scout Taylor-Compton (The Runaways) and Nolan Gerard Funk (The Flight Attendant) offer little in the way of stellar acting, there is nonetheless one performance worth talking about. When one thinks The Long Night is walking in circles, it breaks off from the beaten path just in time to give viewers exactly the movie that was sold.
When Grace (Taylor-Compton) takes her boyfriend Jack (Funk) on a road trip to discover more about her lineage, they find themselves on an abandoned plantation in the south. Jack has no patience for this part of America but, seeing as Grace just wants to meet her parents, he can hardly object to the trip. Just when the couple is at each other's throats, their host arrives. It's not the man on the phone who said the house they are currently in is his, but instead a dead cat and a half dozen hooded figures wearing black robes and ram skulls. Grace soon finds exactly what she was looking for in a group of cult members that just might be her undoing.
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The Long Night definitely deserves credit. Twenty minutes into any horror film, someone is either knee-deep in an
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