After Midnight(2019)
2019 · Jeremy Gardner & Christian Stella · 83 min
Dealing with a girlfriend suddenly leaving is tough enough. But for Hank, heartbreak couldn’t have come at a worse time. There’s also a monster trying to break through his front door every night.
Drama · Horror · Romance
5.7136 votes
TMDB score
2/5
Intensity
1/5
Gore
2/5
Stays with you
How After Midnight scares
After Midnight spends most of its time as a quiet relationship drama, with the monster stuff popping up in short, tense bursts rather than driving the whole movie. The scares lean on dread and isolation rather than jumps or blood, and the horror often feels like a stand-in for heartbreak and loneliness. It's a slow, talky watch with a creature-feature twist, so it fits people who like mood and emotion more than nonstop scares.
On The Horror Database's 0–5 scare profile, After Midnight rates psychological 4/5, visceral 2/5, gore 1/5, lingering effect 2/5, and overall intensity 2/5.
- Psychological: 4 of 5
- Visceral: 2 of 5
- Gore: 1 of 5
- Lingering: 2 of 5
- Intensity: 2 of 5
Slow burn vs Jump scares: 20 of 100 — leans Slow burn
Supernatural vs Real-world: 35 of 100 — leans Supernatural
Fun-scary vs Disturbing: 40 of 100 — leans Fun-scary
Intensity over runtime
Shape only — no eventsReveal pacing shapeHide pacing shapeHidden by default — shows where the tension peaks and lets up.
A slow, talky relationship drama that only occasionally lets a creeping dread creep in, before a short burst of intensity near the end.
Intensity across the runtime, 0 to 100: 0, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 4, 3.
How scary is After Midnight?
On The Horror Database's 0–5 intensity scale, After Midnight rates 2/5 — moderately scary, building its fear through slow-burn dread rather than shocks. The fear is mostly in your head — it unsettles far more than it assaults. Expect it to be restrained with gore and fun-first. Some of it will follow you to bed, but it lets go within a day or so.
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