Film Review – Fear the Night

Writer/director Neil LaBute worked out some genre wiggles with 2022’s “House of Darkness,” blending some horror experience into his usual brew of charged conversations, retaining a theatrical presence for a study of unease. LaBute returns with “Fear the Night,” which is an action cinema offering from a helmer not normally known for physical acts of survival, always more comfortable with agitated psychological states. “Fear the Night” retains LaBute’s love of dialogue and head games, but it’s a more violent presentation of exploitation interests, with star Maggie Q portraying a tough woman facing off against a team of men in small town America. There’s death and some destruction, and, true to form, LaBute brings some gender hostilities to the endeavor, which adds something different to the usual submission of survival panic and one-person-army screen activity. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com