I just happened to stumble upon this 2023 horror movie titled "The Devil Comes at Night" by random chance. And given my life-long fascination with the horror genre, of course I had to sit down and watch it.
And while I did manage to sit through the 80 minutes that the movie ran for, I was only mildly entertained. The storyline in "The Devil Comes at Night" was generic, so very, very generic. Writers Ryan Allen, Adrienne Kress and Scott Leaver didn't exactly revolutionize the horror genre with the script that they collectively managed to conjure up here.
The acting performances in the movie were fair. It was a small cast ensemble, but the performances were adequate. I wasn't familiar with a single actor or actress on the cast list, however.
Visually then you're not in for anything extraordinary or spectacular. Nay, director Scott Leaver delivered a movie that was rather monotonous and sort of devoid of anything shocking or even just remotely scary. And that made sitting through "The Devil Comes at Night" a somewhat dull experience.
This is not a horror movie that I will be recommending for horror fans to rush out and get to watch. Nor is it a horror movie that I will ever return to watch a second time, because it hardly had sufficient contents for the first viewing.
My rating of "The Devil Comes at Night" lands on a four out of ten stars.
