The Night Before Halloween (2013)

The Night Before Halloween: Directed by Richard Schenkman. With Ian Bamberg, Noell Coet, Adam C. Edwards, Stephanie Erb. Young Emily Walton, who has suffered from psychosomatic blindness ever since the car accident that took her mother’s life, must summon every instinct at her disposal to protect herself and her loved ones from a mysterious intruder.

“MISCHIEF NIGHT is a pretty lacklustre movie that feels entirely derivative of previous, better films in the genre. There are elements of THE STRANGERS here in the presence of masked villains who say very little and creep around houses, alongside throwbacks to the classic u0026#39;blind womanu0026#39; thrillers like WAIT UNTIL DARK. Another blind woman thriller I saw recently was the Michael Keaton-starring PENTHOUSE NORTH, which is about on par with this one.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAfter a fairly confused and irrelevant opening sequence, weu0026#39;re introduced to the usual type of premise: thereu0026#39;s a young blind woman in a house on her own at night, on u0026quot;mischief nightu0026quot; of all things, which is when houses get egged and the like (itu0026#39;s sort of a tamer version of THE PURGE). Inevitably the bad guys show up with murder in mind, and thereu0026#39;s a lot of tiptoeing back and forth and suspense scenes involving broken glass, poor mobile phone signals, and the like.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eSadly this is the type of film where weu0026#39;ve seen it all before, and it doesnu0026#39;t help that the lead character is completely unsympathetic so I had no particular desire to see her make it through the night. The filmmakers try very hard to make this frightening and suspenseful, but if Iu0026#39;m honest I was bored by it all.”