THE MIDNIGHT MAN
(2018)
Director: Travis
Zariwny
Notable Cast: Grayson
Gabriel, Emily Haine, Gabrielle Haugh, Summer H. Howell, Keenan Lehmann, Louise
Linton, Meredith Rose, Robert Englund, Lin Shaye
The reason why I’ve called you into my office today is that,
well, to put it nicely, we need to talk about The Midnight Man. Recently, there has been some speculation that The Midnight Man could have been a good
movie. Really, there is potential here. It has a fun monster/game concept at
its core, it features a couple of roles for horror elite actors, and the
production value is sharp. The problem with it is not how it looks from the
outside. It’s the inside. The Midnight
Man has one of the thinnest and most illogical scripts I’ve had the
pleasure to experience in a long time, the performances of the two/three leads
are perplexing at best (jaw droppingly awful at worst,) and the film has a
confusing tone. In all honesty, I spent the entire run time of the film
desperately trying to figure out if it was meant to be funny. If it was, I
didn’t laugh. If it wasn’t, boy, I sure feel awkward that this is how it came
out.