Comwayon
A Disappointing Continuation
Siflutter
It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.
Quiet Muffin
This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.
Scotty Burke
It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review
shawnblackman
A group of people head up to see some ruins and then camp out. While there they start being killed with their organs harvested. Everyone is suspicious of each other and the deaths are falling in order of the game they played called Murder In The Dark.This was sort of a found footage. The premise wasn't too bad but what was bugging me the whole time was why couldn't they just leave? I know the vehicle wouldn't start of course but if every morning we woke up and someone had been killed in the night, my ass would be walking down the road with nothing left to lose, not staying there for three more nights. I guess the film wouldn't be as long. It does get boring after a bit. I thought the end was stupid. It just didn't have an 8 Films To Die For feel.
GL84
Arriving at a strange Turkish town, a group of friends attempt to play a game taught to them by a hitchhiker which soon turns deadly when they begin disappearing one-by-one and must find the reason why they're being targeted and get out alive.This one wasn't all that bad and had some good parts about it. Among the better parts here is the fact that there's some rather enjoyable times to come from it's atmosphere and surroundings that this one really plays with which makes for a wholly enjoyable time here. Playing this inside the kind of decrepit, crumbling open-air castle- grounds that this one does gives it the absolutely perfect old-world air of neglect and disuse which is absolutely amazing at generating the suspense of the situation simply with the kind of foreign atmosphere that's required here. In turn, when this one turns over into a stylish thriller about the group being targeted and then finding out there's a savage killer haunting the area it lets this one get even creepier with the early set-ups here with the video- camera and the pictures showing something happened there makes it seem like an even creepier place here which really gets worked over nicely with the different slasher film sequences that come up. From the discovery of the bodies strewn over the location and the different scenes of them being held captive in the different settings within makes for a great time here that gives this a really enjoyable touch that coincides nicely with their growing hysteria and general confusion over what's happening there which manages to give this a rather fun and enjoyable time. There's some flaws here, mainly in the fact that this one doesn't really get to the slashing until way too late into the film. This one manages to go until nearly an hour mark before it starts in on the different slashing that occurs within here, fixating mostly on the dull interactions of the group with their petty and bland fixations here from the father not trusting the hitchhiker around his daughter, the main couple arguing over their travel plans and how everyone's dealing with the cramped location that all hold the film's killer down from appearing earlier which is quite a struggle to get through. These are more problematic in the sense that they come off rather lethargic and slow-going rather than the film's centerpiece scene where they confront each other over who's the potential killer within them which is filled with utterly unappealing moments that don't mean anything and makes it so hard to care as they all turn on each other over flimsy means. Lastly, once the killer is revealed and the motivation given, it makes no sense as there's no build-up or real rationale throughout here which tends to make it seem all the more troubling than it really is and could've used some fleshing out than what's given here. Otherwise this one here wasn't all that bad.Rated R: Violence, Graphic Language and sexual themes.
jswindter01
...a fresh take on the now, very stale genre of horror!I know there seem to be many who do not at all believe the "gimmick" that's used in the movie, "Murder in the Dark". I specifically use the word "gimmick" due to that being the most common of the negative descriptors used by critics in speaking of what this set of writers/directors bravely, dared to use in making this little horror flick.I. personally, DO believe that this crew/cast actually did try this daring feat of something totally new, and unheard of in the making of ANY movie, much less a genre piece of horror. I absolutely believe that these actors/actresses were led in blind and thereby forced to rely on their own gut feelings, and intuition, on how to proceed forward throughout the entire filming of this movie..and for me, the end result was great! It was completely grounded in reality, which allows the viewer to feel the unease, and even somewhat "feel" the fear that naturally arises from the unknown..and IMO, these actors/actresses were every bit in the thick of the thick of "the unknown"..the who?..the what?..the when, and how?..each of the scenes were going to play out?.. as well as deciphering where each of the scenes were going to fit.. what they would mean..and from there what it would "equal" in compiling and piecing together the proverbial puzzle of the "big picture", as a whole, in what would form the cohesive plot of the movie.I dug it, and I very much appreciate the different route this crew/cast dared to take in making this movie.
dcarsonhagy
"Murder in the Dark" is a film about some vacationing friends descending upon a ruin of some sort. During their first overnight stay, they all get a little smashed and decide to play a game called "Murder in the Dark." What's starts off as innocuous fun turns very deadly. I ask anyone who watches this film to be sure to watch until the end. Much is revealed with interviews from the directors, producers, and the actors themselves. The viewer will find out that this "movie" was actually more a play than a film because the actors were NEVER allowed access to the script--if there WAS one. This was an experiment by the directors to allow the actors the chance to make their own movie. The majority of dialogue was improvisation, which amazed me. The dialogue of the cast actually determined who would live and who would die. Perhaps that's why this installment seemed a little fresher than most. I will not give away any further plot points, but I will say an accidental photo reveals what is happening to the cast.The movie is rated "R" for violence and language.