Director: Marc Meyers
Genre: Horror/
Thriller
Runtime: 91
minutes
Year:
2019
Starring: Alexandra
Daddario, Keean Johnson, Maddie Hasson, Amy Forsyth, Logan Miller, Austin
Swift, Johnny Knoxville
Description: Three best
friends embars on a road trip to a heavy-metal show, where they bond with three
aspiring musicians and head off to one of the girls’ country home for an after-party.
Review: The eighties were a bizarre time. Fear of satanism in the heavy metal
music scene was rampant. “We Summon the Darkness” is a lightweight horror movie
set in 1988, and makes eager use of this time spirit.
When three young women are
on their way to a heavy metal concert, they are overtaken by a van. Suddenly a chocolate
milkshake ends up on their front window. The throwers turn out to be three male
metalheads who are going to the same concert. However, the beers makeup for it
all. The state they are in, Indiana, is plagued by a murderous gang of Satanist,
but they completely ignore it. The girls decided to invite the three guys to a
remote house that belongs to one of the girl’s dads.
For the first half hour of
the film, Alexandra Daddario feels like she’s ready for a leading role. After that,
things derail at such a fast pace that her powers of persuasion also take a
nose dive. And with her everyone does.
The film is marketed as
horror, but is also meant to be funny. But it never really is. And it also never
really feels serious enough to actually care about any of the characters.
“We Summon the Darkness” can
best be described as a black comedy with no real jokes, or a horror thriller with
only little excitement. By the time Johnny Knoxville appears on stage (after
only seeing him on television screens) the movie is beyond saving. The idea of
it is better then the actual film.
Rating: 2
/ 5
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