Standard Spoiler – This discusses details of the movie Dark and Stormy Night. If you don’t want to know what happens then stop here
I usually review movies that I see in theaters but with the advent of internet streaming services, people can distribute movies directly to audiences without having to go through movie theaters in the first place. Dark and Stormy Night was brought to my attention on Google Play as something I might be interested in. For once they got it right.
Dark and Stormy Night was written by Larry Blamire who had previously directed the successful low-budget sci-fi film, The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra, a film that spoofs low-budget b-movies from the 1950s and 1960s. Instead of tackling science fiction, Dark and Stormy Night tackles haunted house movies and adds a healthy dose of 1930s screwball comedies.
The film stars Daniel Roebuck as 8 o’clock Farraday, a crusty big city reporter and Jennifer Blaire as Billie Tuesday, a wisecracking reporter trying to “outscoop” Farraday. The two reporters show up at a spooky mansion in the middle of a rainstorm for the reading of a Will and instead find themselves in the middle of a murder mystery with elements of ghosts, escaped mental patients, a serial killer, and a gorilla to complicate matters.
Just to make things even more interesting a motley assortment of characters shows up for the Will reading. Each one of these individuals seems to have a shady past and may be the murderer but they keep dropping dead at the most inopportune moments.
The fun aspect of the film is seeing all the standard mystery and horror clichés trotted out and made fun of over the course of the movie. It’s by no means a cerebral film and it’s not meant to be. Rather it’s meant to be a way to pass a dark and stormy evening at home, and at $1.99 rental fee, it’s well worth it.
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