Bright Falls (2010) User Reviews

Good prequel to an Alan Wake game

[cober69 · 9/10 · 14 May 2012]

Well, I watched it at night! And it worked! Just got myself an Alan Wake game and stumbled upon these series by chance.

It's great opportunity to be engaged by the dark movie's atmosphere and be introduced to some in-game persons.

It's kinda scary watch it an night, not because of some special effects, but because of obscurity and dark fears nesting deep down inside the soul of each other human being.

Directing is good: it says not much, just enough for your ming to start working. Guessing.

Worth watching!

AMAZING series!

[juliejulestaytay · 10/10 · 31 July 2010]

Bright Falls is better than some of the most popular series on TV today. It does in a few short episodes what might take a full series an entire season.

The performances are exceptional and the mysteries are frightening and engaging. I'm blown away by this series and hope to see more of it soon.

Every episode was truly scary at some point - not bad fabricated scares or horror movie clichés but the kind of scary that gets under your skin and stays with you.

I found the plot really easy to follow, which made the strange digressions and weird encounters all the more engaging.

I never felt like they were for a trivial purpose - there's a definite, frightening order to the way the main character interacts with the townspeople and the things he finds out about the town and himself.

The last episode paid off on all the mysteries set up without telling us specifics and without letting up on the creepiness - if anything, in answering questions, it also raised bigger ones, and scarier ones that make me want more!

Bright Falls is how a series should be!!!

Pulls you in

[jerryritewellwell · 10/10 · 11 August 2010]

This series starts strangely - a guy in a new town eats at a diner full of weird locals then hits a deer on the road. It quickly picks up after that when he starts blacking out and hallucinating as he interviews a local doctor who wrote a self help book.

He finds notes he doesn't remember taking. Crazy notes. And then sees a man carrying a deers head that looks like an illustration he doesn't doesn't remember drawing, which suggests he somehow drew this man into existence.

It isn't a bad setup and what adds to it is the fact that the blackouts and the uneasy feeling of the story really make you feel strange yourself. The episodes feel like they stain your subconscious and you start to not trust the motives of the characters or the reality of the main guy.

As his blackouts get worse he looses track of time and begins to suspect himself in the abduction of a man - the motel owner that runs the motel where he's staying. You get the sense that somehow this same loss of control is happening to others in the town, including an obese woman who bites a cop, and that it may all connect back to the deer he hit.

Is there some kind of contagious darkness in Bright Falls? I don't know, but it's not so much the concept as how it's pulled off that makes this series work so well. It would probably be a good case study for psychologists because it feels like it's dealing with mental imbalance or schizophrenia, but from the perspective of the schizophrenic, so that every disturbing realization feels real rather imagined.

Definitely watch this but be careful not to do it at night. This kind of material can really mess you up if you're not careful.