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10/19/2024

Against the Night (2017)

Nine friends decide to go together to the town's abandoned prison in the middle of the night to film a ghost hunting video. Things get bloody quick -- but they get stupid and infuriating even before the blood starts flowing.

My question throughout was "Why in the world would any of these women keep these arrested-development men in their lives?" One of the first scenes has a guy with a camera sneaking into a room to film a couple having sex: the male half of duo sees him and grins while the woman is embarrassed but quickly gets over it. It's like all of the guys are 12 with boobies and sex on the brain and the women just shrug it off with a "boys will be boys" attitude. Literally unbelievable. Also, most of the scares are shot with so little light that they're completely ineffective.

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