Nightlight

Plot synopsis:
The film opens with a voyeur taking pictures of an unknown woman dressing up. He later sets her house on fire while she lies unconscious in the room.
Celeste Timmerman is a woman with a successful career, an attractive boyfriend named Brent, and a good friend she can trust with all of her secrets. Lately, she has done nothing but fight with Brent, and she decides she wants to move out. Although Brent is reluctant about her moving out, Celeste buys a new apartment. Soon an unknown man begins to stalk her repeatedly by telephone. The caller says he can see her. Celeste asks her best friend Tasha for help, and Tasha suggests that Celeste block his phone calls. Meanwhile, Brent is mad over Celeste leaving and starts trying to reach her constantly. Celeste thinks he is the stalker, but Tasha tells her he couldn't be. What Celeste doesn't know is that Tasha is meeting Brent secretly, and is trying to seduce him. He is only interested in Celeste, however, and wants to protect her against the stalker.
Celeste is unable to block the stalker's calls, and he becomes angry with her ignoring him. He warns her not to block his calls, not to call the police, and not to have a boyfriend. He threatens to punish her if she disobeys. Celeste ignores his warnings and contacts a detective. She also purchases a telescope to attempt to find the stalker herself. However, the stalker knows Celeste contacted the police, and calls to inform her that she will be punished. Later, returning home, Celeste finds that her curtains have been removed, and she has a voicemail message from the stalker saying that he could be anywhere in her house. Afraid, Celeste immediately leaves the apartment and contacts the police. However, her house boss later tells her that he took the curtains down because they weren't functioning correctly.
One night, Celeste receives another phone call and tries to locate the stalker while he is talking. Believing she has found him, she contacts her house boss. He tells her that what is happening to her also happened to a woman named Justine Jamison, who vanished one day and was never heard from again. Celeste trusts her hotel guard, Derreck, with her suspicions about the stalker's identity, and he reluctantly sneaks her into her suspect's apartment. She finds out that a man named David Jacobson lives there. Later, two investigators, Detective Gillis and Detective Zamora, pay David a visit and find pictures secretly taken from Celeste. Although David swears he has never seen the pictures, he is taken to the police station.
Celeste reunites with Brent, but she receives another threatening call from the stalker ordering her to get rid of Brent. The stalker says he will get rid of Brent if she doesn't. Celeste's fear returns as she realizes that David can't be the caller, because he is in jail. She tries to contact Justine Jamison, the previous stalking victim, but is unable to reach her. Returning home, Celeste realizes her pet bird is missing.
Later, as she discovers that the stalker has put cameras in her house, Celeste is interrupted with a phone call from Justine. They meet and she tells Celeste that the stalker killed her fiancee. Not much later, the stalker also threatens to kill Brent. In addition, he sends a video message of Celeste's bird, threatening to kill and eat the pet.
In the climactic scene, Derreck leads Celeste to the basement, telling her it is the stalker's hiding place. The stalker is then revealed to be Derreck. Brent, who has also come to the basement, gets into a fight with Derreck. Celeste intervenes just as Derreck is about to kill Brent by hitting the stalker in the head with a pole. The police arrest Derreck. Celeste and Brent are finally set free.

Tags: violence, horror, murder

Review:
Even continued so for a while until it decided to over stretch it, over use it and annoy it's audience!So, this is a different kind of horror, a blend of found footage with normal view, more of a first person horror to be honest, you always see from one's point of view but I won't take that as something bad.
It worked decent enough, I actually think it is an improvement compared to found footage style.It created a nice little premise for itself, had some seen before but good used scenes, made that impression that it will be worth while and then falls flat and stays there.
The only thing scary about NIGHTLIGHT is time wasted that you can't have back.I think this movie's biggest sin is its somehow believing that it can scare you when all it can do is make your head go dizzy.
The mystery gets lost in the found footage style which I must say has gotten exhausted by this point.Directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, NIGHTLIGHT is your typical pretty people in peril horror.
Soon enough their plans go haywire when they awaken a demonic presence that take hold of their deepest fears.NIGHTLIGHT probably would've worked if it had come out about 15 years ago at the heights of of "Blair Witch" popularity, but it just couldn't work anymore today.
In some horror movies, less is more works, in some horror movies, you can do enough damage by not being graphic or too visual about it, but when you're dealing with something like NIGHTLIGHT, where everything is already set in the dark, making things even more invisible makes for a not so fun horror-watching experience.
NIGHTLIGHT is generic, it's predictable, it's dizzying, it's a major time-waster.Read more at Ramascreen.Com. Suspenseful, cool story, scary!.
THat was an interesting idea, and lets them do it a little differently than if it was a camera like all the other "found footage" style movies.
I watch a TON of horror movies, and this was one of the better ones I've seen that have come out this year, by far.
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).
NIGHTLIGHT will NOT provide that for you.It's creepy scary, in an unfamiliar woods with only flashlights.
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"...
So, watch if you root for "The Bad Guys" or want the unknown "The Things That Go Bump In The Night" to be victorious!.
It's the same thing all time, friends will play stupid jokes in abandoned place that is haunted and the things go upside down after happened a lot of strange noises and strange things, but no one goes home until disaster strikes.
Nice try guys, I'll always give that A for effort.The movie reminded me a lot of the Blair Witch project.
A group of white kids go into the woods, for what reason never matters, but horny whites under age 24 in the woods, always is a bad idea (should be a law against it.)Anyway, the movie did have suspense.
That was a bonus, I found them pleasant to look at, but no one's persona was develop well enough to really care weather they lived or died.Also, the movie had too many false scares, and horror moments.
It felt like they were trying to add more time to make what could have worked as a short, a feature movie, but all it did was make an hour and a half feel like twice as long.Once again, A for effort but will not recommend watching..
Heading out to a supposedly cursed woodland area, a group of friends find the claim that a demonic presence lurks in the woods to be true when they happen upon a terrifying force in the area and must find a way of getting out alive.For the most part this one was a highly enjoyable and exciting effort.
Playing up the haunted forest aspect incredibly well as there's just nothing at all wrong with the early set-up here, it goes from the early exploits of their games and camaraderie together with just the slightest hints that something's wrong with banging noises in the woods or animal howls off in the distance only to continually prove that nothing malicious is out there only to then suddenly turn that into a rather terrifying and enjoyable feature once the horror starts in earnest.
There's plenty of utterly suspenseful times here, with the encounter with the boyfriend out among the rocks overlooking the cliff and the group in the woods where the falling tree nearly crushes them come off the best though the absolutely chilling sequence where they are followed by the unseen force turning on the motion-activated lights behind them which gets closer and closer while they wait for it to appear which it does in a rather chilling and startling effect, and the finale in the church is an absolute stand-out as well as the creaking wood and ominous foot- steps continually getting closer lead to a rather chilling finish.
This leads to plenty of high-energy action along the way here with this one getting the dive into the underground caves or the attack on the abandoned car in the middle of the woods being superb stand-outs that really sell this one quite nicely and makes for another highly-enjoyable part of the film to go along with all the utterly chilling encounters.
Though the found-footage aspect, given a more intriguing spin here as actually being framed from the lights of the their equipment instead of a video-camera as per usual, still comes with the rather tired antic of having the out-of-focus shaking visual trick that renders a lot of scenes really hard to make out what's happening and there's little thought into what's going on here as the story makes no sense, these here are really all that keep this one down.Rated R: Graphic Language, Violence and Brief Male Nudity..
Watching plant grow is actually funnier than wasting time with this ridiculous movie.
Enough is enough, either these people do a good horror movie or we will have to create a whole new genre : "crappy" !.
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.
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.
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?
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.
I guess someone has been watching The Blair Witch Project before making this movie.
First of all the way of shooting this movie is just annoying to watch.
And a good horror movie needs at least a bit of gory details or some scary characters but in Nightlight it's mostly about suggestion.
Watch it if you are a fan of found footage movies.
A lot of people hate found footage movies but I love them.
Whole movie is set in a deep forest in total darkness so it does have an eerie atmosphere from the beginning till the end.Plot is nothing special just an excuse for some dumb teens to go into the woods and get in trouble.
There are few jump scares, none of which will make you jump if you watch horror movies often.In the end, I did like it but obviously, could have been better.
I am a huge fan of horror films in general, own over 200 horror movies, have seen countless thousands of films, and I have to say Nightlight is by far the scariest move I have ever seen.
The countless cliché horror movie situations that occur are nearly as dense as the forest itself.
All of the other things aside, I find it a rare occurrence when I enjoy a movie about people being stalked in the woods and, at best, you only get a few half-second glimpses of the nemesis.
This is yet another one of those found footage movies and another that his set in the woods well we have a number of kids heading into wards woods to play night light.Well I never herd of that game before, you know story,.The kids are having fun , playing games and for while and soon then later , they all end up getting separated and bad things start happen then.This movie need to be lot clear , what heck was going, I did really no what was actually happens not that it was dark or anything, I was not to sure if it was ghost , wild animal or what ever at times and why ever it was , you don't really get see much of it at all.I did not like how the movie was edited as it felt like spent too much time on just two people and they met they maker and then they decide to show other two people we had not see for about 30 min I assumed they dead way before they reappeared as they were off screen for far to long.Well the main thing , this movie add nothing new, found footage , same old same old.The acting was not that good wither 4 out of10.
When one friend of a group takes his own life there, the group of teens head to the forest to investigate it's shrouded mystery for a night of hide and seek gaming with a flashlight called Nightlight in a rather dark place.
If you like a dose of creeping supernatural hocus pocus and unexplained dark demonic beings and don't mind the used 'investigate that strange noise in the woods' trope, there's enough frights going on to please horror fans..
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.
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..
"Nightlight" is ANOTHER movie in the same genre as Blair Witch, Paranormal Activity (ad nauseum), and just about anything else in this same vein.
It's TIRED people; stop it already.I am not even going to try and explain the premise of this movie.
I started the flick and, four hours later, when I checked the time, 20 minutes had passed.I never thought I would find a movie less intelligent and/or less cohesive than Blair Witch Project, but this one is it.
Robin (Shelby Young) goes to the forest to play flashlight games with the cool kids and Ben (Mitch Hewer) who she secretly likes and not the pimply faced Ethan.
The kids play their games, tell stories about the woods, scare Robin and then....This is another hand held camera film that is not technically a hand held camera.
Instead they gimmick the idea and show the film through the viewpoint of various flashlights which gives us the same irritating effect as a hand held camera: kids screaming in the dark, camera shaking while we can't see what is going on, lots of footage of the ground.I liked the basic plot idea of a haunted forest with demons, spirits, mad dogs, and bats.
The only time I got creeped out was when my light burned out while watching the film.Train scene might lead to bad imitation behavior.Guide: F-bomb.
We jump to five teens (Robin; Nia, Amelia, Chris, and Ben) starting a flashlight gaming night in the Covington Woods.
Anyway, here's a question for Scott Beck and Bryan Woods (the two guys responsible for this Blair Witch version of sloppy seconds): Why can't something be filmed like a regular f***ing movie these days?
Jeez!Starring six actors/actresses I've never heard of, tacking on a connecting plot point of a friend's suicide via the first and last sequence, and distributed by the same company associated with the Hunger Games flicks (Lionsgate), Nightlight follows attractive, female pushover slash unlikely horror victor, Robin (played by Shelby Young).
Yup!In conclusion, with dialogue that sounds like snobbishly gabbing high schoolers in the cool clique and scenes where cast members (in peril) don screams that seem totally phoned in, Nightlight is currently the bottom of the barrel as far as 2015 goes.
But think about it, the fact that I initially believed this to be true goes to show you how bad Nightlight really is.
NIGHTLIGHT is yet another BLAIR WITCH-style indie horror style movie with a found footage angle.
That has to do with a group of know it all but known nothing at all teens who plan to spend the night there and end getting swallowed up by it.Filmed in almost total darkness and with a confusing POV editing you get lost, like the teens, as soon as it starts with the teens freaking out for what seems like no reason at all but by not having the proper lighting,the movie-makers way of saving on the electric bill, to see their way out of the mess they find themselves in.
The leader of the group Robin, Shelby Young, is the only one that seems to be conscious of whats going on and for that is the one who ends up getting the business from whoever is pulling the strings behind the scenes.*****SPOILERS***** Incredible long for a short 85 minute movie it takes a lifetime for the sun to finally rise in Covington Forest for it to finally come to an end.
Any move that spends more than 30 min filming at night should be avoided totally, any movie that thinks attractive teenagers in the woods alone at night will draw a following, also to be avoided.
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.
I'm not a fan of the reality horror movies because the shaky camera makes me feel a little sick and irate but I didn't get that from this movie, when the person was still the camera was still which made this movie very watchable for me.It was late at night when I watched this so it was very spooky and I felt a little on edge so I suggest you watch it at night too.The movie is set in a forest (and I'm not fond of being surrounded by trees especially at night) where a group of teenagers go to a place that is renowned to be haunted.
I really didn't expect much from this movie but its special effects were really good, very creepy and very scary.
I watched this movie 3 times and my mother watched it twice and I didn't think she would even like it but she did and she wouldn't let me take the dog outside alone she had to come with me and keep watch.
Another thing i want to add is that I saw stuff that I missed the first and second times I watched this movie.
Well I hope you enjoy watching this movie as much as I did.