Bloody, funny, and cathartic, Fear the Night is a wickedly violent showcase for Maggie Q.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 1, 2024

Shallow and unsatisfying, Fear the Night is an adequate home invasion thriller that could have been so much more...it turns away from interesting choices at every turn, leaving a generic, half-baked thriller behind.

| Feb 1, 2024

There is actually very little here that you haven’t seen before; the lead performance from Maggie Q is strong, but that really is all it has going for it.

| Oct 13, 2023

Maggie Q is on good form, both as an actor and as a fighter.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 25, 2023

This is a waste of time and streaming pixels.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 19, 2023

Gets a good performance from Maggie Q to keep it at least almost watchable.

| Original Score: C | Aug 23, 2023

A production perfect for LaBute’s signature nocturne visors.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Aug 15, 2023

Fear the Night simply doesn’t work, and the only thing left to fear here is the threat of more Neil LaBute movies.

| Aug 8, 2023

Neil LaBute does his version of You're Next but apart from a reminder that Maggie Q should be an action star it is severely lacking in suspense and terror, all leading to an epilogue that could have been wonderfully satiric instead of painfully strained.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 4, 2023

Fear the Night has all the parts needed for a good thriller, but LaBute fails to ratchet up the tension and thrills to make it a satisfying suspense invasion film.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jul 30, 2023

Fear the Night finds the once revered auteur in low-budget mode, his misanthropic tendencies couched in genre frameworks that, in theory, should make them feel more organic, but instead merely serve to highlight the misogyny that ultimately fuel them.

| Jul 27, 2023

Except for a handful of pointed lines of dialogue, there is a gnawing frustration that LaBute cannot elevate the material beyond his perfunctory approach for scene after predictable scene.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jul 27, 2023

There’s nothing much to the narrative trajectory, instilled with a countdown as the night turns into morning and the bodies of both victims and perpetrators pile up.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 25, 2023

Offering little beyond pedestrian action sequences and surface-level observations on female empowerment, Fear the Night is a sad, limp disappointment.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 25, 2023

Though competently made and sufficiently bloody, Fear the Night is a home invasion horror movie as generic as its title.

| Original Score: C- | Jul 24, 2023

Let’s be frank here – Fear the Night is almost exclusively a vehicle for Maggie Q to do Maggie Q stuff, and I can confirm she does.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 24, 2023

It's crafty enough, but it's lacking LaBute's usual acid wit and fearless provocations.

| Jul 24, 2023

As frustrating and disappointing as Fear the Night is, the worst part is knowing it could have been better with some fine-tuning here and there.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 24, 2023

It keeps you on the edge and does work, but it is in a sense just another home invasion thriller.

| Jul 22, 2023

Bare-bones and somewhat simplistic, Neil LaBute's home-invasion thriller is still sharply effective, touching on themes of violence and female empowerment in a blunt, primal manner.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 21, 2023