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We Summon the Darkness

2019

Marc Meyers

Alexandra Daddario, Keean Johnson, Johnny Knoxville, Logan Miller ...

4.4

1,157

Horror. Thriller It's 1988 and people are terrorized by a nationwide rash of apparently Satanic murders, which appear to be connected to kids who go to heavy metal concerts. Three girls in their early 20s, ALEXIS, VAL and BEVERLY, meet three guys, MARK, KOVACS and IVAN at a heavy metal concert and go back to Alexis' family's vacant country house, where the boys learn to their horror that the girls are not the enthusiastic heavy metal fans they seem to ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"An appealing cast and slick period production values make this an entertaining enough retro bloodbath."	POS
Canada	Hannah Hoolihan Screen Rant	"A wickedly fun and delightfully devilish thrill ride led by electric performances from Alexandra Daddario and Maddie Hasson (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
Canada	Dhruv Sharma TheCinemaholic	" Like many other similar films, it is, at times, unappealing and flat, but it perfectly manages to blur the lines between humor and horror (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Noel Murray Los Angeles Times	"'We Summon the Darkness' is fine throughout; but it peaks in its first third, when nothing much is happening beyond some very good actors recreating the small-town rock ’n’ roll lifestyle of the recent past"	POS
Denmark	Karina Adelgaard Heaven of Horror	"[The] ending ruined the overall experience for me (...) Still, I did enjoy the first half of the movie so much that we’re still keeping it at a respectable 3 out of 5 (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"Meyers refuses to treat the slasher movie as a cheeky debased genre. What happens going forward may be insane, but he stages it with a cunning visual-dramatic logic"	POS
United States	Meagan Navarro Bloody Disgusting	"It doesn’t reinvent the wheel or present anything we haven’t seen before, but it’s so damn fun that it’s hardly a flaw (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Jonathon Wilson Ready Steady Cut	"Its own perceived sense of elegance results in some nicely-framed images, but less entertainment that you might expect given the premise (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Rob Hunter Film School Rejects	"The road to hell has rarely been this entertaining."	POS
United States	Glenn Kenny rogerebert.com	"The proceedings are not entirely unamusing in their lurid way, but they’re also not nearly as clever as the filmmakers believed or hoped they would be. Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Jade Budowski Decider	"A gruesomely good riff on a beloved genre that seamlessly manages to mesh the familiar with the refreshing."	POS

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