Review of Last Night in Soho (2021) by Nickthecritick — 27 Mar 2022

This is probabily not Edgar Wright at his best but it is still better than 90% of the horror coming out today. That says a lot about Wright's skills. The first half of the movie is visually stunning, entertaining and full of director's main features but the second half just turns out to be quite weaker because Wright overuses some commercial horror clichés and makes this second part of the movie a little predictable.

Tension building could be handled in a better way here. I expected this movie to be a more unconventional horror with a lot of Wright's style in it. While in the first half the premises were good, the second half was a little below expectations.

I still think Wright is unable to shot a completely bad movie, even this one, that is his weakest one, has maky points of enjoyable cinema. There are some outstanding high quality horror scenes that bring to mondo Mario Bava and Dario Argento's masterworks and that moments are simply magnetic.