LAST NIGHT AT TERRACE LANES (2024)
Pretty teen Kennedy (Francesca Capaldi) is about to have a very bad night! She’s reluctantly going with her friend Tess (Mia Rae Roberts) to Terrace Lanes, a bowling alley on its last night of operation before being torn down. Making matters worse, her estranged father Bruce (Ken Arnold) works there. But all of this is the least of her problems as a murderous cult invades the establishment, seals everyone inside and begins to slaughter them. Now Kennedy must team up with her dad if she and Tess are to try and get out alive.
Pretty teen Kennedy is in for a bad Last Night at Terrace Lanes!
Flick with an 80s vibe is directed by Jamie Nash from a script by Jenna St. John and Adam Cesare and is basically a gory Die Hard in a bowling alley. It’s an amusing horror that does have some impressive bloodshed to go along with its cute and spunky heroine forced to fight for her life alongside her goofball, slacker dad. The gore and kills are well done though it’s not very scary and the action does stop cold from time to time for dialogue sequences, especially with the reconnecting Kennedy and dad Bruce. The cast are fine with Francesca Capaldi making a decent heroine and the masked cultists are adequate if not unremarkable villains. It’s done tongue in cheek and while no classic there are far worse ways to spend 75 minutes. Worth a look but nothing that is going to stick with you. Now available on streaming networks such as Amazon Prime.
-MonsterZero NJ
Photo: Epic Pictures.
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