VanHulu Reviews: Into the Dark: DownBy Chuck VanHoose May 3, 2019It’s time for the first addition of VanHulu’s Review. It’s a lot harder to find something to watch than I thought it would be. Hulu mainly has original series and not a lot of movies. What I decided on was technically a series but also a movie. Blumhouse television has created a horror anthology series that releases one episode per month.
Each episode is designed around a holiday that occurs during that month. Also each episode is the length of a feature film. So they will be a total of 12 in the series. I decided to go with the February release that was titled Down.

I went with that one because I didn’t like the trailer for the one released for April. The one for April was titled I’m Just F***ing with you. I actually watched the trailer for the latest release. In the trailer that said the title of the movie multiple times. I got sick of the title just by watching the trailer. I knew in the actually movie it would be said more. So I knew I couldn’t sit through a whole movie with that on repeat.

Now let’s talking about the one I actually watched which was titled Down. This movie is going to be hard to talk about without spoilers.
POTENTIAL SPOILERS WARNING
I watched the trailer after the movie and felt liked I watched the movie again. I thought it was just an okay episode. Since the episodes don’t build on each other I’m willing to give the others a chance.

The whole plot of this movie is that two people who work in the same building get trapped in an elevator on Valentine’s Day and President’s Day weekend. As time passes on the two get to know each other. But when the truth is revealed then things takes a turn for the worst and the fight for survival begins.

There’s not a lot that I can say about this film. It’s not a high class suspense or horror film by a long measure. The movie is also extremely predictable.

Positives
I honestly can’t think of to many positives. I think the actor and actress played by Matt Lauria and Natalie Martinez did the best they could with what they were given. They just gave an okay performance. That’s me stretching for a positive.

Negatives
The entire movie basically takes place in a elevator hence the title of the movie being called Down. I didn’t think they had any chemistry. The whole first of the film is them getting to know each other. This is a horrible 40 minutes that I didn’t enjoy. Again this movie is extremely predictable.

I was almost tempted to cut the movie off just before the “action” started. So the pacing is awful. It’s a slow first 40 minutes then some action starts then gets slow again. The movie does this until the end. I didn’t care about the characters.

There’s one sequence that bothered me a lot due to the unrealistic nature. It had a scene kind of like in Fast and the Furious 7 when the Rock is blown out of a building and lands on a car. The Rock was hurt and ended up in the hospital. However in this movie while trying to escape the elevator they climb up the elevator shaft. I would say they are at least a good 10-20 feet above the elevator. However they fall and crash through the roof of the elevator. They just lie their for a bit then get up and basically shake it off. The guy appears to be injured but it doesn’t affect if that much.

The amount of dumb decisions that she makes in this film is unbelievable. They only had her make dumb decisions so the movie could continue.

Rating: 3/10

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