Fear the Night

Released Jul 21, 2023

1h 32m

Action

Mystery & Thriller

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Eight women attend a bachelorette party at a remote farmhouse in the California hills. They are interrupted by the arrival of masked intruders who surround the place and begin shooting arrows at the home and the guests. One partygoer--Tess, a military veteran who is fighting her addictions and her difficulty at fitting in with other people--leads the women in making a stand against the attackers as they fight back in an effort to save themselves over the course of a single dark night.

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Critics Consensus

Despite typically strong work from Maggie Q, Fear the Night is a fairly generic and disappointingly tension-free thriller from writer-director Neil LaBute.

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Maria I

THIS WAS A WASTE OF TIME.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

04/29/24

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Cara N

Maggie Q gives a good performance, no problems there. The movie itself is very average, not much action. The ending leaves things unresolved

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

04/27/24

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Ryan M

By no means does this film reflect, dictate, or emulate how I feel about Maggie Q as an actress in a leading role. This was just a poorly executed and poorly written slog and I won't bring myself to hold it against her. This was easily forgettable and at times (most of the runtime) very irritating and I would like to disregard this from Maggie Q's resume moving forward. AND stop displaying the damn time every six minutes (queue eye roll) and scrap the epilogue that served absolutely no purpose. That is all.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

03/30/24

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A R

Such a shame when they had a very good actress like Maggie Q that it's wasted among other - very badly overacting - actors. A story that easily could have worked, given good supporting actors and some better dialogue, bombed. I only kept watching because of Maggie Q. But the angry sister, the angry friend, the angrier friend, the general nastiness which is never explained towards MQs character, it's all too draining and there's little empathy for anyone apart from MQ or a desire that any of them survive. It was an epic waste of £3 or whatever I paid!

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

01/09/24

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Jelisije J

Without Maggie Q the film suffers with terribly written characters with mediocre acting with an ending that should have gave you answers instead of asking more questions.....Disappointed is and understatement.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

01/03/24

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Lloyd S

Just a bloodshed for a very common reason, money.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

12/18/23

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Tess

Kat Foster

Beth

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Gia Crovatin

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Peter Bradshaw

Guardian

This is a waste of time and streaming pixels.

Rated: 1/5

Sep 19, 2023

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Noel Murray

Los Angeles Times

It's crafty enough, but it's lacking LaBute's usual acid wit and fearless provocations.

Jul 24, 2023

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Simon Abrams

RogerEbert.com

Eventually, it becomes hard to tell if the movie and its canned culture clash/battle of the sexes drama is just self-consciously tedious or also hatefully ungenerous.

Rated: 1/4

Jul 21, 2023

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Chad Collins

Dread Central

Bloody, funny, and cathartic, Fear the Night is a wickedly violent showcase for Maggie Q.

Rated: 4/5

Apr 1, 2024

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Jessica Scott

Nightmarish Conjurings

Shallow and unsatisfying, Fear the Night is an adequate home invasion thriller that could have been so much more...it turns away from interesting choices at every turn, leaving a generic, half-baked thriller behind.

Feb 1, 2024

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Chris Ward

Flickering Myth

There is actually very little here that you haven’t seen before; the lead performance from Maggie Q is strong, but that really is all it has going for it.

Oct 13, 2023

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Synopsis

Eight women attend a bachelorette party at a remote farmhouse in the California hills. They are interrupted by the arrival of masked intruders who surround the place and begin shooting arrows at the home and the guests. One partygoer--Tess, a military veteran who is fighting her addictions and her difficulty at fitting in with other people--leads the women in making a stand against the attackers as they fight back in an effort to save themselves over the course of a single dark night.

Director: Neil LaBute
Producer: Berry Meyerowitz, Jeff Sackman, Neil LaBute, Maggie Q, Matthew Helderman, Tyler Gould, Luke Dylan Taylor, Arianne Fraser, Delphine Perrier, Henry Winterstern
Screenwriter: Neil LaBute
Distributor: Amor Media
Production Co: BondIt Media Capital, Quiver Distribution, Buffalo 8 Productions
Genre: Action, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jul 21, 2023, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jul 21, 2023
Runtime: 1h 32m

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