When Approaching ‘Fear the Night,’ Know That the Director, Neil Labute, Can’t Be Trusted
As playwright and screenwriter, Labute employs language both with concision and an out: Even the firmest statement is stymied by obfuscation. His films are oblique and disobliging.

Director Neil Labute, in a statement accompanying his new picture, “Fear the Night,” writes that he hopes it “plays like a classic drive-in thriller,” later noting that “I hope we find a wonderful audience with this film, the kind who think ‘Wow, they don’t make ’em like that any more.'” He subsequently signs off: “I sincerely hope you like it.” Sounds chummy, right?
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