TONIGHT!: Love Suffers After Midnight

Have you ever, or are you currently in love? You’ve found the person that you want to spend the rest of your life with, to trust with your life, and who can save you from the darkest of places when times become difficult-seeming like a neverending spiral of pain. Then, this movie is for you! Love suffers the most after midnight in this 2019 horror drama-comedy that I watched totally by fucking accident.

I tend to stay very far away from dramas for the central fact that I’m not too fond of drama, primarily in real-life. But my love of cinema cannot allow me to exclude this entire genre no matter how much it pisses me the fuck off. To be clear, I don’t hate love. I am a very loving person, but the expressions of love in film cannot be compared to my own. Repulsion is in my nature, and I am repulsive. One fact about this movie is, the monster of “love” is even more repulsive.

I get it; being “in” love is a goddamn painful thing. More so, falling out or getting your strongest emotions tested is the most challenging reality of it all. You can’t bear to face the fool in the mirror. The characters in this were drawn into a small circle; that is one thing I liked about this. I get so lost when there are a bunch of unimportant characters in a horror movie. Not so cool when the monster in the horror movie shows up at the end. That was done on purpose, I propose.

You got the lovelorn, the pixie who wants to be free, the cool ride-or-die best bud, and then cop friend. Not empathizing with the main character’s plight of not wanting to live in a quiet place in the middle of bumble fuck nowhere made watching the last act as easy as pie. Hearing a grown man karaoke “Stay” wasn’t as cringy as I thought it would be, but I digress into my burning dislike for mushy shit. It was a sign of things to come. I’ll give you one guess who didn’t like the music choice.

The initially intended movie was “Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker,” but some digital mixup in the streaming service caused me to watch this non-1980s film. I’m not angry, just disappointed.

Available to watch on Amazon Video