Take Back the Night

Take Back the Night

Monsters are real.

Directed by Gia Elliot

202290 min4.1 / 10

A psychological horror film that blurs the line between external threat and internal trauma, using a monster hunt as a vehicle to explore credibility, mental illness, and the unreliability of memory.

Finding herself the victim of a violent monster attack, Jane launches a vigilante campaign to hunt the beast that tried to kill her. Jane's efforts intensify, but her troubling history of drug use and mental illness bubbles to the surface causing her family, community, and authorities to question the authenticity of her account. Suddenly alone in her fight, Jane starts to doubt her own memory of the attack...to doubt if Monster exists at all.

Questions people ask

  • Is Take Back the Night sad? Yes. More sad than 88% of films.

  • Is Take Back the Night scary? Yes. More frightening than 87% of films.

  • Does Take Back the Night end with hope? Barely. Less hopeful than 83% of films.

  • Is Take Back the Night easy watching? Not especially. Less comforting than 74% of films.

  • Is Take Back the Night violent? Somewhat. More violent than 71% of films.

These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.

9/ 100

Cinnamon Score

How much this film gives you that nothing else will, and whether it delivers.

Conventional, and it does not land.

Rarity35

How unlike any other film this one feels

Surprise2

How much more it delivers than it promises

Love3

How much audiences actually like it

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Same territory, far fewer people have seen it.

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