It's time for the latest release on the Frightfest Presents label from Signature Entertainment. WE SUMMON THE DARKNESS had its UK premiere at last year's Halloween Frightfest & now it's coming out on download and DVD.
Indiana 1988. Three girls set off on a road trip to see a metal band in concert. Meanwhile the news is full of reports of 'satanic' killings, with the number of deaths now well into the teens. A chance chocolate milkshake thrown from a van on the highway leads to the girls meeting three male metal-heads, with blood-soaked consequences for all.
The more things change the more they stay the same. WE SUMMON THE DARKNESS is set in 1988 but it feels more like early 1970s grindhouse-lite, the sort of thing Jack Hill could make half of with his eyes closed while someone's brother shot some padding at the same time to bring it up to feature length.
The cast features some familiar B-movie faces (Alexandra Daddario, Johnny Knoxville, Logan Miller) and whoever wrote the screenplay got to indulge in their obsession with bands of the era in a lengthy dialogue exchange. It's the kind of movie that's ideal if you're planning on an evening out (or in) with someone and you want time to have a lengthy chat during the film, especially during the first act when there's actually very little happening.
Once that's out of the way things do hot up a bit. I'm not going to give anything away, suffice to say this is one of those films seasoned horror connoisseurs can safely give a miss to, while simultaneously recommending it to friends and relatives who fancy a bit of old fashioned TV movie-style suspense and are probably the audience this one's aimed at anyway .
WE SUMMON THE DARKNESS is out on the Frightfest Presents label from Signature on Digital HD from Monday 20th April 2020 and DVD from Monday 11th May 2020
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