...a palpable misfire that squanders its strong first act.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 10, 2022

We Summon the Darkness is a wickedly funny and delicious piece of genre cinema. It's a horror film that doesn't necessarily aim to scare or terrorise us but to take us on a gnarly rollercoaster ride along with its doomed characters.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Aug 10, 2021

A story of metalhead (or Satanist?) boys vs. girls in 1980s Christian America; perfect set-up for a slasher, but this is not so formulaic by a long shot.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 9, 2021

A rollicking B-movie satire about those who truly have blood on their hands.

| Feb 2, 2021

We Summon The Darkness lacked believable performances, an interesting story, or anything resembling excitement for me, falling into too many clichés to engage.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 1, 2021

A gruesomely good riff on a beloved genre that seamlessly manages to mesh the familiar with the refreshing.

| Aug 11, 2020

We Summon the Darkness is very lacking. It borrows elements from a lot of different brackets....80s culture, metal, kidnapping/torture, etc. But if gives half-hearted attempts at each one of these elements. And the 80s authenticity is quite lacking.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Aug 9, 2020

A fun throwback horror tale about three girls, three guys, a rock concert, and a mysterious killer on the loose... maybe.

| Aug 7, 2020

Despite the title, there is nothing supernatural about this fluffy horror, just a bit of a murder spree of predictable boredom.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 8, 2020

This slice of heavy metal horror is never particular clever or deep, but it's entertaining enough.

| Original Score: B- | Jun 25, 2020

Director Marc Meyers is able to establish a balance between horror and comedy that threads the needle right throughout most of the movie.

| Jun 24, 2020

I'd definitely recommend checking out We Summon the Darkness, as it is yet another bold and compelling effort from Meyers, who proves with this latest project that he's truly one of the most intriguing filmmakers working today.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 19, 2020

Directed by Marc Meyers from a script by Alan Trezza, We Summon the Darkness starts in a familiar yet subversive fashion before drilling into its deeper themes exploring the fetishization of faith.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 5, 2020

Satantic panic horror will never go out of style, and this movie is filled with style. There's a lot to enjoy here for genre fans.

| May 12, 2020

'We Summon the Darkness' draws forth gory horror.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 11, 2020

The young actors are more than up to the task here, especially Daddario, whose 1970s-era Ivory Girl looks and pitch-perfect timing and facial expressions make her character a compelling ringleader for this fun and original slasher/romp

| Apr 23, 2020

Alan Trezza's script indulges in trashy movie cliches while upending them, as dialog spins the story around. But a cheesy attempt to add a thematic slant never takes hold.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 22, 2020

That is where it loses its momentum a bit, and the satire element is not mined nearly enough. But the cast are great and it is good, silly fun.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 22, 2020

The half-baked 'Heavy Metal Parking Lot' conversation at the film's beginning do little to erase how boring it becomes when it settles into predictable bloodletting and slashing.

| Apr 21, 2020

We Summon the Darkness is the kind of heavy metal horror we've been longing for these last couple of months.

| Apr 20, 2020