Six strangers are tasked with spending the next seven nights
in a supposedly haunted abandoned asylum with a nefarious history. This is the premise behind 7 Nights of Darkness (2011). Compromised of footage the contestants are
supposed to be filming each night, the film is a mixture of found footage and
regular cinematic techniques as it decides when and when it doesn’t want to
adhere to the “found footage” aesthetic in order to “cheat” and get a better
angle.
Each day the six contestants are given a task that they have
to fulfill in order to proceed to the next day.
Each successful day brings them one step closer to winning $7 million
that will be split among the people who manage to stay till the end of the
week. Despite being locked up in the
asylum and given only a single task during the entire day, most of the
contestants spend their time playing cards and doing relatively nothing. All the contestants are strangers from
different states with different backgrounds and they have little in common with
one another.
Whereas most films of this kind would revel at the chance to
explore the location and see what is going on none of these characters are
really interested (except for one who is quickly the first person to meet a
paranormal fate) and therefore the audience is never really interested. The film is comprised of uninteresting
characters with little to no motivation other than to get rich. There is no real drive in the characters or
the film and even when “spooky” stuff starts to happen the film decides to fall
into the tired old trope of having stupid characters do stupid things.
Written & directed by Allen Kellogg the plot is lazy and
the direction is uninspired and uninteresting.
There is nothing in the film that hasn’t been done a thousand times
before in other mediocre and poor found footage paranormal films.
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