The Three Acts:The initial tableaux: There is a short do it yourself video of Ethan, a depressed male teen, discussing his failed suicide attempt, plus his attachment to Robin. We jump to five teens (Robin; Nia, Amelia, Chris, and Ben) starting a flashlight gaming night in the Covington Woods. The woods has a reputation as a place where teens commit suicide, and where ghosts reside. Plus, there is a scary church located within it.Delineation of conflicts: Robin has a job as a service person at an ice cream parlor. Nia and Amelia look down on employment. Robin is the newbie in the group, and the rest plan to haze her. Something in the woods does not like any of them. The plans for hazing seem to get replaced by other plans. Robin would like to live through the night and go home with her dog, but the wood seems opposed.Resolution: Elimination derby.

***SPOILERS***It took some two years after it was put in the can before this turkey was served via direct video on an unsuspecting public who are for the most part totally confused by it's message about the horrors of Covington Forest that its telling them. That has to do with a group of know it all but known nothing at all teens who plan to spend the night there and end getting swallowed up by it.Filmed in almost total darkness and with a confusing POV editing you get lost, like the teens, as soon as it starts with the teens freaking out for what seems like no reason at all but by not having the proper lighting,the movie-makers way of saving on the electric bill, to see their way out of the mess they find themselves in. One of the girls Nia, Chole Bridges, gets so scared of nothing really in particular that she turns into a mindless zombie for the entire movie just staring into space and not saying a single word. The leader of the group Robin, Shelby Young, is the only one that seems to be conscious of whats going on and for that is the one who ends up getting the business from whoever is pulling the strings behind the scenes.*****SPOILERS***** Incredible long for a short 85 minute movie it takes a lifetime for the sun to finally rise in Covington Forest for it to finally come to an end. Your not at all curtain who of the some half dozen teens survived and by then you just didn't really care. Like the saying goes they made their bed and ended up sleeping in it which was infested with a colony of bed bugs. As for who or whatever was haunting them it or he seems to have been up conjured by the frighten teens in trying to make their stay in the forest exciting but ended up getting the best of them in the end. About the only one who did survive and in tact was Karmer the teens pet dog who was far too intelligent and able to understand that the whole things, it their stay in the forest was a sick joke on the teens part and checked out, to the sane world, before the film was over.

Looking for a movie that makes you jump or keeps you on your toes? Probably not going to find that here. Throughout the movie I found myself wondering "Why would you think that's the smart thing to do right now?". The countless cliché horror movie situations that occur are nearly as dense as the forest itself. That being said, I'm not entirely critical of the film. There's decent eye candy for a film with no nudity minus a shot of guy butt. It appears that the creator still took pride in the film as far as picture quality is concerned. Especially for a found footage flick. All of the other things aside, I find it a rare occurrence when I enjoy a movie about people being stalked in the woods and, at best, you only get a few half-second glimpses of the nemesis. Not enough to leave you with the haunting image. Just enough to allude to what might be going on. If you're a fan of the found footage genre then you could definitely make a worse selection. You could also make much better ones.

. . . (unless you count those portions of Texas covered by the compounds of David Koresh, Warren Jeffs, and all the other religious criminals yet to be burned out by the government). So it should be no surprise that NIGHTLIGHT's doomed quintet of Utah high school students cannot pray their way out of a paper bag (or, in their case, a haunted church and forest). One boy is unable to come up with the First Word of the Lord's Prayer when asked. The girl doing some of the asking prays to the dead leader of her high school's Satanic Suicide Cult, seeking an easy way out of her prom problem. Most of the "action" of NIGHTLIGHT is implied by sound effects and cell phone cameras juggled in virtual darkness. It makes one wonder why they even bothered with cameras at all, when the NIGHTLIGHT people were aiming for the feel of a 1930s-style radio play where the visuals were left up to the listeners' imaginations. The glop foisted off on the screen to the paying customer adds little. If you're Hell-bent on "seeing" NIGHTLIGHT, don't expect to be able to decipher anything on tiny phone, tablet, monitor, or TV screens. Just wait until it comes out on IMAX.