![]() The only thing I can liken it to would be if Neve Campbell had been cast in Fairuza Balk's role in The Craft. But this role is simply out of her range. I typically like her, and if she had played Maddie Hasson's role here, she might've made a fine number two. ![]() Unfortunately, We Summon the Darkness is hampered by Daddario's performance, which feels like a stretch any way you slice it. If anything, I appreciated the outside characters that Trezza brings in, like Daddario's coked-up stepmother and a local police officer who's smarter than most local cops in these kinds of movies. Once the boys are incapacitated and restrained, things pick up, but the script fails to go anywhere exciting or original - at least as far as the main characters are concerned. I know that's the tried and true formula with these kinds of low-budget genre movies, which all feature a 20 to 45-minute build-up, at this which point all hell breaks loose, but this film definitely could've cut to the chase a lot sooner. We Summon the Darkness sure does take its time to get going. The problem is that director Marc Meyers and screenwriter Alan Trezza never commit to a consistent tone here, and it doesn't help that Daddario is fatally miscast as the group's vicious ringleader. At first, we're led to believe that the guys, who are super into the metal scene, are the devil worshippers who have been killing for Satan, but at the end of the film's interminable first act, we learn that the women - Alexandra Daddario, Maddie Hasson and Amy Forsyth - are the crazed killers. Set in the '80s, it's about three young women who meet up with three young guys at a heavy metal concert at the same time a rash of satanic murders have been committed in the area. You can't review a movie like W e Summon the Darkness without talking about the "big twist," which is already spelled out in the film's marketing materials ( see photo below).
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