Granted, I wasn't really expecting much from this 2020 movie titled "8ight After", as it just had that particular low budget vibe to it. But still, with it being a new horror movie that I hadn't seen, of course I managed to find the time to sit down and watch it.
And true enough, I wasn't in for a grand spectacular horror movie. Sure, the movie was watchable, but it was amazingly slow paced and very, very uneventful, which made for a boring and mundane movie. Yet, I managed to endure the movie to the very end, hoping something extraordinary would happen. But it just never did!
The movie feels like a low budget rip off from the "Paranormal Activity" for better or worse. I mean, if you liked the dubious "Paranormal Activity" movies then chances are you'll enjoy "8ight After" as well. But if you, like me, weren't impressed or entertained with the monotonous and uneventful "Paranormal Activity" movies, then you'll might want to just go ahead and skip on watching "8ight After". Some of us literally suffered through this so you don't have to.
For a horror movie then "8ight After" was just bland and boring. It took writers Deanna Rocca and Vincent Rocca 1 hour and 38 minutes to essentially show you just a bedsheet being ripped off, a moving shadow and a closing door. Everything else that was portrayed in the movie was just filler. And come on, let's be honest, a bedsheet, a shadow and a door hardly makes for a proper horror movie.
And the way the movie is constructed and built up as being a self-recorded vblog, wow. Just wow! That is bad, epically bad and makes for some very horrible entertainment in my opinion. It felt like something I could have recorded myself with my phone. So I feel ripped off having to actually invest money and time into watching something like this.
The movie has a very limited cast ensemble, which meant that the pressure to deliver proper acting performances were resting on the shoulders of those actors and actresses. Fair should be fair, and they actually performed well enough with the severe limitations imposed upon them from director Vincent Rocca.
If you enjoy horror movies you should spend your money, time and effort elsewhere, because "8ight After" simply is not really worth the trouble. My rating of this 2020 movie settles on a generous three out of ten stars.
8ight After
2020
Action / Horror
8ight After
2020
Action / Horror
Plot summary
After discovering a secret box in the wall of her house, a demonic presence begins terrorizing a YouTuber, at 8 after 1:00am every night.
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Every bit as boring and disappointing as "Paranormal Activity" was...
Uuuuugh....
If there has ever been a more dislikable couple in a film I haven't seen them. Pure, absolute garbage. Pointless, wothless sh^%. Anyone associated with this "film" should get a real job and accept that filmmaking isn't their calling.
Better than half the GARBAGE Blumhouse puts out.
I enjoyed this film plain and simple, and it's great to see Vince back after many years from the Kisses and Caroms days. That said, I am a Vince and Deanna fan and have been for many years. While I'm not big on "found footage" and "paranornal" type films, this one actually kept me interested and was very entertaining to watch and didn't feel like a cheap Blumhouse film. Call me crazy, but as an editor and filmmaker myself, I appreciated the hell out of what Vince and Deanna did in this film and how" D.I.Y." it was. I appreciate and love micro budget filmmaking, and I feel like that's part of what makes this film work : the Robert Rodriguez approach in making a film around what you have access to. It was an entertaining 90 minutes and kept me entertained and I appreciate what Vince and the cast came up with. It almost reminded me of Adam Rifkin's "LOOK" (2007) which is a huge favorite of mine and felt slightly similar which was also appreciated. Overall, don't let the mixed reviews send you away, especially if you can appreciate the low budget and D.I.Y. approach. Indie film is alive and well, and Vince Rocca is a man of his craft. Check it out.