Something Else (now titled After Midnight), the latest from Jeremy Gardner, is a genre-confused love story/creature feature that is here to let indie horror fans that it’s okay to dabble in different arenas as long as you do it well. It isn’t perfect–there is some cringe worthy dialogue & questionable acting but this only occurs outside of the heavier scenes. A lengthy dialogue between Brea Grant and Gardner doesn’t feel out of place, despite the fact that it totally in (in a monster movie); a conversation about being unmarried and childless in your early-30s can get cliche very quickly but this is so well written and acted that it’s more captivating than anything. Realistic without being mumbly and topped off with a karaoke rendition of a Lisa Loeb song, this film made me laugh, cry, and jump within an hour and a half.
Something Else premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival 2019
