The Last Light (2014)

The film opens with an interesting soundtrack and background of printed material over a wall that creates an eerie atmosphere of mystery. We find seven people trapped inside an abandoned mental institution. They have electric lights and water. They ration food, mostly strawberry bars as Jeffrey(Seth David Mitchell) has scarfed the better tasting blueberry bars.The film centers around Jack (Ed Quinn) the leader of this group of survivors. The first 15 minutes introduces the characters and the situation. One person, Noah (Edward Furlong) lives in the basement and advises Jack alone. Locked in the building, it is always light outside with "those things" trying to get them. Harold (Jeff Fahey) speculates it is aliens, and is quickly quieted as discussing what "they" are is forbidden.The days pop up on the screen. The film starts at day 89 and works back down to zero, although the plot moves forward. At day zero, the mystery reveals itself in case you hadn't figured it out. There are clues and the clues become more overt as the film goes on.I enjoyed the character interaction and several of the soundtrack pieces. As an action film it was slower than "The Divide."Parental Guide: F-bomb. No sex or nudity.

Film maker Andrew Hyatt has written and directed one of the most disturbing, visionary horror films of the last decade and it is a cinema triumph. Stunning imagery of haunting intensity and rich characterizations bring unique power to this saga of people trapped in an abandoned hospital following a mysterious apocalyptic event. In the forbidding corridors of unspeakable horror lurks unknown entities that desire only to consume these unfortunate individuals and have them fighting for their very lives. The atmosphere Hyatt creates is overwhelmingly frightening and imaginatively realized with exceptional creativity. Edward Furlong and Jeff Fahey give superb performances and Yvonne Zima, Molly Hagan, and the always outstanding Ed Quinn are also do exemplary work. In fact, this may be Ed Quinn's finest role since playing Stark on the small screen in the delightful Eureka. Simply tremendous cinema, no one who experiences the spine chilling terror, unendurable suspense, and unrelenting horror of The Last Light will ever forget any of it.

Some movies are so bad, they're funny - The Stuff. Some movies are so bad they'll make you cringe - Human Centipede. This movie, however, falls into the 3rd category of bad... the one that is categorized by looking at a movie selection a year later and thinking, "Did I see that one before or not?"Everything about this movie just ranks as unremarkable. I saw a brief synopsis of the movie and figured it had potential. Almost 2 hours later, I'm wishing I had done something else with the past couple hours of my life though... take out the garbage, do the dishes... anything that I could show some result for!The only portion of the movie that gave me the slightest jolt is when I connected "Noah" with "that kid from T2" (Edward Furlong) and it's kind of sad when the pinnacle of entertainment a movie provides comes from playing a "5 degrees of" game with the cast.There's really nothing else to see here in this movie. It tries to steal premises from much better movies like "What Dreams May Come", "Jacob's Ladder" and "Flatliners" but fails at making an original, or at least entertaining story.When the ending came (rather anti-climatically I might add) I was happy just to move on with my life.

Molly Hagan will always be Angel from Herman's Head in my mind, and I think the casting was an attempt at tongue in cheek attempting and failing for me by being too obvious. This movie is a very big mess that is just too obvious, and repetitive. Honestly I had to ask out loud at one point "We who Terminator boy?" as there was no sense of reality to the character played by Edward Furlong, and hardly any from the rest of the characters either. There is a lot of acting going on here, but it is the kind done in attempting to reach some form of egress from a bag which happens to be paper. The head towards the light shtick just goes on, and on. More even than my talking about it) I Enjoyed the first 5 minutes or so, it looked like this was going to be a good mind bender that would keep me guessing, however that quickly turned out not to be the case, and here we are now after a very over thought out ending, and so much less thought given to how they got there. Not recommending this to anyone, really there is nothing here that will make it worth your time. Some good actors wasted in what must have just been a money pit for someone. Move on I am going to.