This movie is basically not bad. The actors are ok-ish. Laura Regan is trying but she can't carry the movie. She is no Mia Farrow despite there are similarities and she tries to imitate her. Director Robert Harmon is ok-ish and tries to compensate a weak script with Hitchcockian angles but he is no Hitchcock and so the movie looks like an episode of The X-Files. As an X-Files episode the script would have worked. Because I think the story has maybe 60min of runtime in it. The movie is roughly 90min. So it feels stretched out at times. The boyfriend for example does not add one tiny bit to the story. Laura Regan only reflects her state with him. Which means she tells him what happened. But she does so with her psychiatrist. And with some friends. So the movie kinda doubles and sometimes triples certain plotpoints without progress through dialogues.

It's ok-ish for a rainy Sunday though.

PITCH BLACK meets DARKNESS FALLS. What? You want more? Okay. Well shot with great lighting and good script, this Wes Craven backed film is well worth your time.

****SPOILER****

When a friend, Billy, commits suicide in front of her, Julia (Laura Regan) has a recurrence of her childhood night terrors. She meets some friends of Billy, and learns that they all had night terrors as children. When neither her boyfriend (Blucas) or her childhood psychiatrist believes that she is being stalked by They, dark-dwelling creatures, Julia must try and survive on her own. In the end, Julia is committed to a psychiatric ward, where she is promptly snatched and killed by They. Unless you like the alternate ending, where the entire story is just a delusion. What? Oh, now it's too much info. Aren't you ever happy?

I think this film deserved a theatrical run. It was at least as good as half of the Nightmare on Elm Street movies, and better than most of the Friday the 13th flicks.

What happens in the dark? Do monsters lurk in our closets and under our beds? Are they coming for us? Some children think so... and they may just be right. A small group of adults begins to be terrorized by "night terrors", a condition that causes them to believe they are being visited by creatures. Are they? This film was very hit and miss with me. While I have to say it wasn't overall one of the better films I've seen, including some questionable acting and just a rough plot... it has a really good basic story beneath it, some interesting scientific backbone, and a nice role for Ethan Embry. I would have enjoyed more Embry and less of the lead actress, who was not someone I was able to sympathize with.

The film was produced by Wes Craven, which is supposed to be a draw, but anyone following the horror scene knows two things: the producer has very little effect on the finished product, and even if he did, Craven's best years are probably behind him. Even with occasional success like "Scream", he will likely never regain his once-cherished mantle. This film doesn't help.