derbo73 This is a classical monster horror flick, showing nothing new. It was done fairly well, but it had some great flaws, too. The beginning was quite exciting, the camera shots and the characters interesting. I wondered whether this would turn into a quite good werewolf movie, when all of a sudden the story stopped to move on. The drama background of the protagonist(s) was shown for almost the rest of the movie, and not much else until the very end. I got the impression that the director would actually make better drama movies than horror movies. The acting was pretty good, but the middle part of the movie was stretched so far that I almost fell asleep. The monster had no background whatsoever, I think there was a lot of wasted potential here (NA folklore).The end comes rushed and a bit funny, the monster displayed and the CGI shots in the final scene are below average.All in all there is almost no deaths or gore involved and many scenes where the protagonist can walk around in the darkness and the oh so fast and powerful enemy is simply not attacking him.

politehere 1. If you want to make a movie atmospheric, drain it of all color and if possible make it black and white! 2. If you want to make a horror movie, make a drama movie instead and talk about a monster whenever you get tired of Drama. 3. If you want your creature movie not to be confused with a werewolf film, put Godzilla's head on top of a wolf's body! 4. If you can't afford to create a convincing CGI creature, don't show it for 99% of the movie's run-time, make the lights go out whenever it attacks, only show its legs if you have to, and don't even show its corpse in full after it's been shot dead! 5. If you are depressed for whatever reason, try to deny at any cost the possibility of a real creature posing danger to the town even after seeing a track of weird footsteps disappear into thin air, claws on the walls, bodies on treetops, and shadows going about your house! 6. If you have reason to believe there might be something dangerous lurking in the dark, stop your car whenever you get the chance, step out of it and call out into the dark and of course don't take a gun with you! 7. If you are certain that some kind of deadly animal might hurt the townsfolk, don't ask for any help, play the hero, gather the whole town in the church and don't be armed with anything but a pistol and an AK 47!

JackUK1973 When you watch a lot of low budget horror you automatically lower your expectations (watching 'panic button' while writing this, and that is truly dreadful!), however I found Dark is the Night to be one of the better films I've seen recently.There's nothing new in the concept; a remote American town, monster in the woods, people and animals disappearing - in some cases without trace.The suspense and characters build nicely through the film, with odd glimpses of the monster as we go. Kevin Durand was especially good, but all the actors did a great job.The film could be better again if two things could have been addressed; firstly it's ridiculous that the monster kills pretty much whatever is in it's sights however on the more than one occasion that it encounters the sheriff and/or his deputy it runs away - especially bizarre in the scene where the sheriff stops for the dead deer in the middle of the night when he could easily have been killed.And secondly, as others have mentioned, the ending where the creature is revealed which was so bad it almost reminded me of Ray Harryhausen style stop-motion effects.If you can get past those two things though, it's a good watch (unlike this awful Panic Button film)

Michael Moreau To be perfectly blunt I nearly turned the movie off a couple of minutes in. Normally there is a person who works on a film called a colorist and that person is in charge of how the film looks in regard to color. Whoever colored this film basically just hit the "blue" button and called it a day. Seriously, it's the worst coloring job I've seen on any film not shot by complete amateurs. That's a major gripe, but once you get past it there's more to this film.The nice slow/deliberate pace is a welcome change of pace from most movies now that have to slam you with action from scene 1. This film did a fantastic job of reminding me of stories of the Jersey Devil that I read when I was younger. It did what I feel that most horror movies should do and often can't pull off, it gave me the creeps. Creepy wins out over quick/cheap scares any day in my book. It also won out wonderfully on another level. They don't really show what they're up against until the end of the film. Good creepy monsters should not be fully seen until the end of the film. That said, I wasn't terribly impressed with the creature effects when they finally did show it...but having given me nearly and hour and a half of creeps prior to that point I'll say the creature effects only slightly affect how I feel about the film.Overall a good creature feature that could have been a great creature feature with the use of puppetry instead of CGI, better color grading, and maybe a runtime that was slightly longer so as to allow the film to explore more "strange happenings" around the small town.VERDICT: Definitely worth a watch. You may not rewatch it much, but it's a great film first-time through.