''Midnighters'' is a 2017 American
neo-noir
Neo-noir is a film genre that adapts the visual style and themes of 1940s and 1950s American film noir for contemporary audiences, often with more graphic depictions of violence and sexuality. During the late 1970s and the early 1980s, the term ...
thriller film directed by
Julius Ramsay. It stars
Alexandra Essoe, Perla Haney-Jardine, Dylan McTee, Ward Horton, Andrew Rothenberg and Joseph Lee Anderson.
The film had its world premiere at the
LA Film Festival
The LA Film Festival was an annual film festival that was held in Los Angeles, California, and usually took place in June. It showcased independent, international, feature, documentary and short films, as well as web series, music videos, episodi ...
on June 19, 2017. The film was released on March 2, 2018.
Plot
Midnight, New Year's Eve: when all the hopes of new beginnings come to life - except for Lindsey and Jeff Pittman, whose strained marriage faces the ultimate test after they cover up a terrible crime and find themselves entangled in a Hitchcockian web of deceit and madness.
Cast
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Alexandra Essoe as Lindsey
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Perla Haney-Jardine as Hannah
*Dylan McTee as Jeff
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Ward Horton as Smith
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Andrew Rothenberg
Andrew Rothenberg (born January 26, 1969) is an American stage, television and film actor. Rothenberg is known for recurring roles in major television series, including Agent Phil Schlatter on ''Weeds'' and his portrayal of Malcolm on the HBO ...
as Officer Verone
*Joseph Lee Anderson as Officer Campbell
*K.C. Faldasz as Vic
*William Bloomfield as Hotel Attendant
*David Spadora as Mike
Reception
On
review aggregator
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website
Rotten Tomatoes
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, the film holds an approval rating of 81% based on 32 reviews, and an average rating of 6.18/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Adding dashes of horror to a noir premise, ''Midnighters'' is a genre-bending chiller that delights as often as it scares." On
Metacritic
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, the film has a weighted average score of 63 out of 100, based on 7 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
References
External links
*{{IMDb title, tt5737582
2017 films
2017 thriller films
American thriller films
Films shot in Rhode Island
Holiday horror films
Films set around New Year
2010s English-language films
2010s American films
English-language thriller films