Midnighters
A New Year's night becomes a long day's journey into dread for one seriously unlucky couple in this wild-ride nerve-twister. On their way home from ringing in midnight on December 31, Lindsey (Alex Essoe) and Jeff (Dylan McTee) accidentally run down a man in the middle of the road. Things look bad when they panic and stash the body in the backseat. Things look worse when they discover that the stranger they hit had sinister intentions involving the couple and their family. And things go off the rails when a certain psychotic 'Detective Smith' (Ward Horton) comes calling... The scarily gripping feature debut from The Walking Dead and Krypton director Julius Ramsay careens with hairpin twists and genre-defying surprises.
17 July 1997, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
22 February 1993, Kansas City, Kansas, USA
6 February 1993, Santa Monica, California, USA
26 January 1969, Los Angeles, California, USA
14 January 1976, Morristown, New Jersey, USA
March 02, 2018
A solid tale, told pretty damn well.
March 01, 2018
A low-budget film noir that benefits greatly from its tautness and lack of pretension.
June 21, 2017
The intersection between crime thriller and horror is an interesting place to be, even if it doesn't fully pay off in Midnighters.
March 01, 2018
Midnighters occasionally relies on tropes but it makes for an entertaining watch.
March 02, 2018
[An] economical, engaging neo-noir.
March 02, 2018
A notable genre surprise early in the year.
March 01, 2018
Plays like "Blood Simple's" impressionable but less proficient kid brother, nevertheless has some devious touches of its own.
March 02, 2018
Ideally, a story like this executes one sharp turn after another while keeping its wheels on the road of plausibility. The Ramsays have pulled off that feat with aplomb.
February 25, 2018
Chock full of surprises up its sleeve, especially in that it's a thriller of errors beginning unlikable that over time reveals itself to be twisted and thoughtful, commenting on gender politics and more
February 26, 2018
By focusing more on suspense and tension than gore, the brothers Ramsay (director Julius, writer Alston) have crafted an economical and effective alternative to the many disappointing big-budget entries into this genre.
February 28, 2018
At some point ... the motives of these characters shift, and as that happens, it becomes more difficult to find any feeling of sympathy for them.
March 01, 2018
A twisty thriller with horror-movie flourishes.
