SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

Kidskycom It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

gil-191-414728 A lot of people are slamming it for being another 'found footage' film, which I agree with; it's time to put that crap away and start shooting regular films again- this one would've been so much better without it. That being said, the acting was pretty good and the story was interesting. The special effects were good, what there were of them, and well played. I'd like to see this remade without the found footage BS in it as a regular film, but it was worth a watch and entertaining.

Rodrigo Amaro Either the viewer punch himself or herself for watching this or they find a way to punch the makers of this for actually pulling such a strange stunt that never gives us the taste for horror, just thrilling ourselves with screaming and blurred images that doesn't reveal anything with a huge flashlight in the middle of the screen. I knew "Nightlight" was going to become a waste of time but time was mine to be wasted and no money was involved so...yep, only in it to see how bad or laughable it could get and to have a glimpse of Mitch Hewer (main reason actually). Alright, I was on a great track of watching just good or great films that I needed to get some sense of reality in seeing a bad movie for a change. It didn't prove me wrong but got a lot weirder than I thought.Scott Beck and Bryan Woods are the writers and directors of this thing, a story that revolves about a young and restless group of full of vanity, full of smiles and despicable and unlikeable behavior (played by Shelby Young, Mitch Hewer, Chloe Bridges, Taylor Murphy and Carter Jenkins) going to a forest at night to play a game called "Nightlight" carrying flashlights and cameras (which tell the story, so here's another found footage horror flick) boring the audiences but having fun among themselves in this place where Ethan, another teen (Kyle Fain) friend of theirs, committed suicide some time ago. The game revolves around blindfolding a member of the group and ask them to find them in the deep forest, hide and seek but the thrills of nature, sounds, voices, strange things going on...until mystery takes place, folks disappear, tumbling and falling and screaming on and on. Theories: a killer on the loose? Nope. Dangerous animals? Maybe. Cluless and clumsy teens walking around without knowing where they step? Perhaps. The ghost of Ethan? Most definitely, they think. 90 something minutes that seemed to go on forever. The minute you thought "that's the ending" the image got back and kept going endlessly. And was I scared? Not one minute. Was I amused? One or two times. There was some funny bits (like the girl revealing her sexual fantasy with the Grinch) or some cute moments (Hewer seducing the shy girl who actually likes the guy but hates to admit it) but those bits and pieces can't form a whole in which we can say we enjoyed it. But we are tired of the found footage trend in horror, that goes back to 1980 (those who dared to watch the great "Cannibal Holocaust") to later become hip and better used in "The Blair Witch Project" and "Cloverfield" and after those fore-mentioned examples it went all downhill. Each similar film goes by each year and not only it's not scary, they're boring and uninteresting but it also lacks in holding a deeper importance, a relevance to life. Not to mention, most of what's made today it's just cheap, poorly filmed and nauseating. It's all about scream and shaking images. And we're talking about a motion picture, one that should be able to create and present images we can all see. Characters fell from the hill or something in "Nightlight" and it's just the camera showing a nasty tumble and we're like "What?". Above all, the worst trait (plot hole maybe, or people are just THAT unconcerned) is that the five guys split to play the game and when things start going wrong one or two get together, start asking about one of the friends, they don't find any or maybe find one, and later on they stop asking about the other friends - the audience knows they're dead but the characters don't so how come they stop looking or asking about them? Insert facepalm. And the trivia says this film was shot in 2013 and for unknown reasons was not released until 2015. Unknown? The makers were embarrassed by it and tried to buried it as deep as they could but since money talks (the people who invest $ will want $ and more back, obviously) the creature was unleashed to the dismay of frightening audiences - terrified with the trashy quality of the movie and not for the horror moments displayed there. Getting back to the initial remarks, my conclusion goes that I can't punch the filmmakers because they're far away from me and I'm not a violent person anyway. I take this moment to say they should be ashamed of themselves for putting this thing to the world. There goes millions of dollars that didn't produce anything good. As for punching myself, one minor slap on the face is just good enough. I'll go back to the better movie experiences. Going to this bad one made me learn. 2/10

Europa Pirate Rarely can I handle shaky Cam Horror Flicks yet NIGHTLIGHT is 1) Well Acted 2)Suspenseful 3)EngagingThe Negetative: NO Happy or even Neutral Ending!I do Not write Spoilers (and am Not going to write one now). Just say, if you want the Premise to be clear and have resolute at the end of your HORROR FILMS... NIGHTLIGHT will NOT provide that for you.It's creepy scary, in an unfamiliar woods with only flashlights. The actors, dialogue, darkened setting, and night sounds provide most of the Chills. Not an Alls Well That Ends Well feel. Pit in stomach sort of film, I am glad I hadn't viewed at night.Cannot say I recommend to anyone that's not a Hardcore Horror Fan. It's not visually "overtly graphic"... though it does contain some blood and gore. It's basically the knowledge that someone has perished, and the sound of that which is the creepy factor. So, watch if you root for "The Bad Guys" or want the unknown "The Things That Go Bump In The Night" to be victorious!

Edgar Allan Pooh . . . (unless you count those portions of Texas covered by the compounds of David Koresh, Warren Jeffs, and all the other religious criminals yet to be burned out by the government). So it should be no surprise that NIGHTLIGHT's doomed quintet of Utah high school students cannot pray their way out of a paper bag (or, in their case, a haunted church and forest). One boy is unable to come up with the First Word of the Lord's Prayer when asked. The girl doing some of the asking prays to the dead leader of her high school's Satanic Suicide Cult, seeking an easy way out of her prom problem. Most of the "action" of NIGHTLIGHT is implied by sound effects and cell phone cameras juggled in virtual darkness. It makes one wonder why they even bothered with cameras at all, when the NIGHTLIGHT people were aiming for the feel of a 1930s-style radio play where the visuals were left up to the listeners' imaginations. The glop foisted off on the screen to the paying customer adds little. If you're Hell-bent on "seeing" NIGHTLIGHT, don't expect to be able to decipher anything on tiny phone, tablet, monitor, or TV screens. Just wait until it comes out on IMAX.