Tuesday, June 26, 2018

The Night Eats the World (2018)

Director: Dominique Rocher. Cast: Anders Danielsen Lie, Golshifteh Farahani, Denis Lavant. 90 min. France. Thriller/Horror.

Opens with a simple but incredible premise: what if you, as the protagonist does, wake up some day, and realize everything you knew (people, surroundings, rules) had literally or metaphorically changed? Would you 'stay' ... or 'move'? I'd rather not spoil how the story sets the viewer up for this quandary; suffice to say it appropriately employs a famed horror element, because that is a scary question to pose. Sadly, the film doesn't carry its engaging opening through the second half, and even an ending subplot twist reminiscent of another recent film fails to save it from monotony.

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