My rating may seem harsh as the movie isn't bad for what it is but in the end it felt quite empty. Not asking all my questions should be answered in the ending, I actually enjoy movies that leave something of the mystery untouched, but here were just too many which resulted for me in an unsatisfying experience. So this young man died in the war but returns home any way because his mother send prayers, so her son would not die. So he is a zombie even though he still looks like a normal human being. He changed being distant to anyone but his mother and he doesn't seem to have any need for food or drink, no heart beating. He does a bit of killing, assuming he needs the victims' blood to stay alive? It doesn't help in the end as his body starts to rot anyway. Clearly the director wanted to make some kind of statement or tell some message but that must have gone over my head. Yeah war does change people but if that was the message the director wanted to tell the viewer this was not a convincing way to do so. What was very clear to me is that the mother had seriously an obsession with her son. She loved him more than she did love her daughter or husband. Not too bad but too many flaws for me to give it a pass.
Review of Dead of Night
