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I think the show would be better without the mean girls style monologues, some flaws in the story though, how did Yuejin know where to go after she got replaced by the alien? How was Shauna able to walk away without any injury after being stabbed by Yuejin?

This is a fun little alien invasion flick but never lives up to it's best potential. Hulu's Into the Dark St. Patrick's Day entry is about a funny drug dealer, a sorority girl and a hot guy who find themselves in the middle of an alien invasion during the green holiday. They team up to try and stop it before it takes over the world. There's really nothing new here from Grabbers to the Invasion and more. But it's mostly well done. The movie's main problem is that it starts off strong with clever humor and some nasty gore but it never gets as crazy as it promises. Just when you think it will go balls to wall it pulls back and ends up with something more generic. So definitely not the best entry but a fun way to pass the time.

3/5

Just finished this, and it was pretty good. I wish there'd been more interactions with the aliens, or more people who were secretly an alien the whole time, but I liked it. 7/10. (Also I loved the Trezzure poster that Shauna had hanging on her wall in the last scene in the movie.)

Is this an audio book or a movie? Why am I being told the story with ceaseless, interruptive, unnecessary, obnoxious, voice over narration? I understand giving your filmmakers creative freedom, it's nice, you're nice, but Jason Blum, you know how good movies are supposed to play, why don't you guide these newbies a little? For us? Please? This would be fun if I wasn't constantly on edge expecting the flow of the story to be shattered by more on-the-nose voice over, which it was, relentlessly So so so annoying.

This movie was fun and silly. Don't watch it if you want a serious horror film. If you like horror comedies, go for it. It's watchable for a sitting. I would watch it again, personally. It won't make my top 10, or even 50 list, but it's a fun movie. Just a side note: I do wish conspiracy theorists were portrayed better in films, it seems like they're always crazy or radical.

A very hit and miss series, and this is one of the "misses". So bad it might as well have come from Netflix. Don't even bother, as for being set on St Patrick's day, not even a remote hint of Irishness🇮🇪 , apart from some of the soundtrack.

This is what I expect from this show. A quality B-rate horror movie that is made to air as a TV episode. It was fun, quick, and enjoyable. Huge improvement from last month.

Mistys character is just bad her acting was okay but y'all just used a good chance to make a great character into a bad one

"Into the Dark"'s S02E06 Crawlers was a campy romp on the alien body snatchers trope. It plays out in a small college town on St P's Day so there's lots of YA drinking and debauchery, though the latter is mostly referenced, not depicted. Our protags are a group of four almost-PYTs though I'd like to see more of Pepi Sonuga and Giorgia Whigham. You're asked to sacrifice a heavy dose of plausibility for this viewing but with Shauna's campy narration it adds some much needed fun.

Blumhouse must've hired people to positively review this movie, because this is the worst in the series.

The plot is overused. Over over used.

The characters all seem confused about how to think intelligently.

How are they all in a club with no people present?

The monsters are never shown.

The whole thing is quite unbelievable, slowly paced, and cheaply made.

I watch horror, thriller, and mystery movies frequently, as well as the entire Into the Dark series, and this is one of the worst.

Blumhouse, if you're reading this, try Tales from the Crypt, Twilight Zone, or the Outer Limits. How is Invisible Man from the same company? That movie would be a great standard for these generally subpar / average movies.

I have been thoroughly impressed with Into the Dark. Def hit or miss but all series like this are because they are catering to all types of horror fans. This one was great. I like how the story is set up with a narrator and I like the honesty of the depiction of the main characters. This is not a movie you watch not knowing the story type, it has been done before but they did it well and it is unique. I generally watch new horror movies while doing other things and I actually stopped what I was doing too much and did not get anything done. Def worth the watch.

The overall plot is actually something I could wrap my head around. I enjoyed the first 20 or so min. After that, it was slightly rough. After 35 min your wondering why people make these decisions. After 45 minutes, you now understand that this is a very low budget film. Actors aren't bad at all, I kinda enjoyed them at points. But the scenery after an hour or more is a bad representation of a Sci-fi gone wrong. The final scene is atrocious and makes no sense with the amount of people who should be there, hence the budget. Great start, fizzled rather quick with scenery/background and those who commented on it.

Fun enough, definitely one of the better entries from Into the Dark, even if the story is derivative and it very much wants to be Zombieland-but-with-aliens. Two lead actresses were good, rest of the cast range from passable ( woke frat guy ) to ooof ( mom ), diverse cast ( normal for Blumhouse, but still deserves a mention nonetheless ), not scary but i don't think that was the point of this ep, not a lot of FX but then again the budget can't be that big to begin with.

HOWEVER, there are some very serious issues being talked about in this ep, and the tone shift from " Life changing traumatic event" to " Meta Millenials LOL Aliens " was clunky at best. Not that i'm expecting that much from a show like this, but i dunno, stay in your lane? Or at least handle things better. The conversation they want to have would be a better fit in a more serious, darker ep imo.

It starts out like a zombie film and the narrator quickly tells you its an alien invasion. The one detail I like about this is if you are bitten you are not going to turn into anything. The story telling is simple enough that it works and the pace of the film never slows down. Just expect 80 min of what you see in the preview.

The only way this movie is fun is if you turn it into a drinking game: 1 drink for every time someone says "Chloe" 1 shot for every time someone says "best friend" If you do this, you won't remember this mediocre movie.

This movie had potential to be a quirky little gem. The acting was decent, and the plot, if not original, was decent. Misty is very nice to look at. However the constant narration throughout the entire movie was absolutely intolerable. Also the characters were constantly making stupid decisions that make you want to scream and the movie is VERY predictable. It was also scored kind of odd. Overall it's watchable, and even though I didn't go into it with high expectations, I was still a bit let down.

So this mash-up of Bodysnatchers and The Faculty and maybe a little bit of Evolution is not bad. The humour is ok, the actors are ok, the action is ok and the pacing as well.

Thus comes in addition to the poor acting yah yah yah

One of the better ones of this season. Still could use areas of improvement, but you can't expect too much from these

This was a film I decided to check out as I wanted to do a St. Patrick's Day special on my podcast. I wanted to do a new horror movie that would fit the theme and thankfully I didn't have to look far due to Into the Dark from Blumhouse. I just knew of this and figured that it probably had something to do with a bar crawl. Other than that I came in blind. The synopsis is on Saint Patrick's Day-a night of wild parties and drunken revelry-three unlikely friends' band together to save a college town from a vicious horde of body-switching aliens.

Now I'm going to give you the premise of this a little bit out of order. We're seeing a video of Shauna (Giorgia Whigham) who is into conspiracy theories. She gives us the background of the town she was born and raised. It is a college town that takes St. Patty's Day very serious. We see a newer police officer, Dominic (David Carzell), call in when she sees a bunch of people who are intoxicated creating quite a ruckus. He's told to stand down, but while he's looking at some women, he hits someone. He gets out and checks on them. The person then bites him. Shauna then tells us that it's not zombies, but aliens.

We then are following Misty (Pepi Sonuga) who is bummed that her friend, Chloe (Jude Demorest) didn't invite her out. She's been mopey and considers sending a passive aggressive text, but decides to just show up instead. Chloe is happy to see her and she introduces Misty to her new friend, Yuejin (Olivia Liang). Chloe seems like the queen of the bar and is running things.

A guy orders her a drink and it looks like he's the president of his fraternity. His name is Aaron (Cameron Fuller). Sitting with him is his friend Michael (Zachery Roozen). This man is the reason that Misty is in a funk. She believes she was drugged and woke up in his frat. She thinks he attacked her, but cannot remember. Chloe has distanced herself and Misty is upset that she feels her best friend doesn't believe her.

Things take a turn when Misty thinks she sees Chloe leave with Aaron. Misty was talking to Shauna, the local drug dealer and conspiracy theorist. Misty goes to leave and just finds Chloe's phone. Shauna knows how it feels to not be believed. She takes her to the fraternity house where things aren't as they seem and Shauna is convinced it is aliens. What happened to Chloe and is Shauna right?

Now I'm trying to be cryptic in this review, but to be honest, I didn't even fix the synopsis as we learn this information within the first 15 minutes of this movie. To be honest, the reveal there isn't really that important as it is more about seeing this group of people band together, solve their differences and save the world. What I like here though is the social relevance.

If you've been reading my reviews consistently, you know there was a certain major release that was a remake from Blumhouse that really tried to be feminist film. This movie here does so much better with that message they're trying to convey. It really fits into the story and helps to build things. Misty believes that she was drugged and woke up in Michael's bed. She believes she was assaulted. What I'm a bit confused is that I think she would know if she was or not, or if she suspects, she would get checked out. As a male I could be naïve to this so if that's the case I apologize. I do want to give credit to the performance from Sonuga here though. She conveys the isolation of trying to come to terms with this. The police don't believe her, her best friend doesn't believe her and she's now standoffish toward males. We really see this with Aaron in the movie. Where this works though, he does the right thing in learning from a mistake in not doing more and she sees that. They legit have a conversation and it progresses the plight in a way that is constructive. I will say that it does come off a bit cheesy, but still.

I also like how they introduce the problem of this movie. We learn through Shauna in passing about the meteorite that crashed 40 years ago. As I said, she's a conspiracy theorist as well as a drug dealer so I like that building of the character to not believe her. I wouldn't say that she's unreliable, but she has things that we ignore when it comes from someone we don't necessarily trust.

If I do have any issues here though it is with the creatures themselves. They look like us so it really is a take on the Invasion of the Body Snatchers concept. The problem though is that people get bit and then they change. My question is then, are the people doing the biting have a look about them at first, because if they do, we never seen it. I think at least once we should have before the change is made. Currently that's what I'm assuming and if anyone knows and could let me know, that would be great.

To shift this to the pacing, I thought that overall it was good. The movie runs 90 minutes, it gets right into it with a cold open of seeing Officer Dominic encountering it and then getting our first back-story elements from Shauna. I do have an issue with the editing though where the movie will stop so she can give us voice-over narration. The voice-over wasn't the issue I had with it, but more the stopping of the movie to do this. I thought it was jarring and glad they get away from it as it proceeds on. I don't mind showing the video she is making even though I feel like it's a bit of a spoiler, but I can get over that. I thought the ending was fine for the movie, but not great.

That will take me to the acting here. I thought that Whigham was really good as the lead. I love the quirky character that she plays. She feels a bit slighted by college students in the town she grew up, but she won't let them feel better than her. I like the aspects about her that make her unreliable. She's also quite attractive. I've already covered Sonuga, but I will say I thought she was really good as well. Fuller is solid and I like the development of his character. Liang and Demorest are solid along with the rest of the cast. They fit their roles for what was needed.

As for the effects, overall I'd say that they were good. This movie doesn't use a lot of them though. I thought the bit of blood, both human and alien, we get was good. I don't mind the effects of introducing the character's names like we saw in something like The Babysiter. It did help me establish who was who. I did have some issues with blood splatter though as it was done with CGI. There's not a lot of it, so it's not a major problem. I also thought the cinematography was solid as well.

The last thing to cover would be the soundtrack. I thought the selections fit throughout the movie for what was needed. It doesn't necessarily stick out, but it also didn't hurt the movie either. I did want to comment on a song with the opening credits and the start of the end credits, both of them were really good to the point where I think I might seek them out to add to my collection.

Now with that said, I thought this was another solid installment to Blumhouse's Into the Dark. There are some really interesting social elements that are worked into this story very well with the backdrop of an alien invasion. I even think that it furthers the feminist plight in a way that is constructive and not ham-fisted as well. They're just a bit cheesy. The acting is solid to go along with it and it is paced in a way that keeps things moving. The effects were also pretty good, but I did have some issue with CGI blood-splatter. I also thought the stopping of the movie to explain things bogs it down slightly and I have minor issues with the aliens themselves. None of this ruins it for me and I would say this movie is above average for sure. It is fun where I would consider watching this again with friends.

6.5/10