The Digest
Little Billy has what can be called night terrors. Terrors where indescribable monsters terrorize him, yet everyone else dismisses as just really bad dreams even when he tells his folks that "they" are coming to get him. These memories haunt Billy (Jon Abrahams) until his adulthood. He knows that "they" exist and that "they" can't stand light, so he works at night and sleeps during the day. This works fine until the city begins to experience rolling blackouts. Now no one is safe. Billy is convinced that this is their way of coming back for him and anyone else that suffered night terrors 19 years earlier.
Billy contacts his best friend, Julia (Laura Regan), and tries to explain this to her. Being a psych major, Julia thinks that Billy has just gone over the edge. When he commits suicide, she knows for sure the he wasn't playing with a full deck. Shortly after his death Julia begins having night terrors and things get weirder when she meets two of his friends and they confide in her that they too had them as children and the bad dreams are back.
The group doesn't want to believe Billy, but things get progressively worse and the only thing that seems to make sense is the diary that Billy left behind. A diary which at first appears to be the mad ramblings of a crazy person, but turns out to actually convince them that he was telling the truth. "They" are out there and "They" will be back for them one at a time. Can the escape "Them"?
The Dish
Sometimes screenplays are brilliantly woven stories that have twists and turns and with just enough information left out so the viewer walks away intrigued. These movies will spark existential discussions or debates whose celluloid will prove to be worth its weight in gold. And then there are screenplays that have twists and turns and with just enough information left out so the viewer walks away dazed and confused. The viewer wonders what in the hell they ever did to deserve such punishment. Did they just take part in a government experiment to see what happens when one is forced to sit through 90 minutes of bad cinema? I can tell you that the viewer is likely to want to go out and start a cross-country murdering spree. The only things that stopped this viewer were her pregnancy and the fact that her car didn't have enough gas in it to get outside of the county. Beyond that, this viewer was ready do some damage.
Good lord was a heaping pile of elephant dung. I spent 90 minutes not having enriched my life one iota. Rarely do I walk away from a movie without one single good thing to say about it - even if it's a lame comment about the music or cinematography. Okay, I take that back, I can say something good about it - the movie eventually ends.
The Directive
Do yourself a favor and avoid this one all together.
I walked away not really know who "they" were, what "they" looked like. Why "they" were here and what "they" wanted and quite honestly, I didn't care.
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