Midnight Movie

Midnight Movie brings The Rocky Horror Picture Show to mind, but no, this movie is not like the Picture Show at all. Midnight Movie centers around a group of friends who are heading to see a late night screening of an obscure 70’s film, titled The Dark Beneath. The film hasn’t been screened in 5 years, and the last time the film was shown, it was in a mental institution where the director has been a captive for decades. The result of the showing is a bloodbath with nearly 70 people dead and a missing director. The film will be screened once more and the audience will discover just what happened that night at the asylum.

The movie its self is a cross between “Popcorn” and Woody Allen’s “Purple Rose of Cairo”. Midnight Movie asks the question, “What if a serial killer could be separated from the screen he’s playing on in order to kill the audience who’s watching?” The movie has its standard slasher moments and sets the teenage victims of the film up nicely before executing them in a series of deaths which would make Hannibal Lecter cry. The movie has everything it needs to be great, but the execution of the killer in the movie is less than savory.
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