Max’s disappearance poses a relatively simple question that each successive scene complicates with new information, as when we start seeing flashbacks to a house party that took place just before Kath and Max’s ill-fated cabin visit. Barlow quickly joins Kath in tracking down Greta, who in turn leads the pair to the next plot point, and so on. She starts by contacting Barlow (Mulroney), the cabin’s reclusive owner. But Max never returns, causing Kath to inexplicably chase after her callow, unfaithful partner. Max and Greta pair off after the two couples exchange some unsettling preliminaries and even more awkward ice-breakers, so Kath leaves without her guy. Max disappears soon after he and Kath go on vacation at a secluded Northern California cabin, where they’re ambushed by a mysterious couple: Al ( Owen Teague), who’s sullen and aggro, and Greta ( Brianne Tju), who’s horny (for Max) and provocative. Ryder takes the lead in “Gone in the Night” and makes you want to see whatever befalls her dazed protagonist Kath, who mounts a haphazard search for Max ( John Gallagher Jr.), her spacey boyfriend. (Derby also has writer credits on the “Sandra” podcast from 2018) For better and worse, “Gone in the Night” feels like the directorial debut of a podcaster, somebody who knows the value of storytelling novelty and has a gift for narrative economy, but also suggests more by the grace of good casting than their own singular talents. Horowitz, who co-wrote “Gone in the Night” with Matthew Derby, also co-created the psychological thriller “ Homecoming” podcast, which he adapted into a compelling TV series with Micah Bloomberg and “Mr. Some of the film's more disorienting qualities-particularly its sudden and haphazard use of flashbacks to first tease and then fill in the gaps of viewers’ knowledge-make more sense once you realize that “Gone in the Night” was directed by Eli Horowitz. The rest of the drama doesn’t fare as well given how much of its plot, about a missing person who may or may not have been abducted, seems to have been designed to keep viewers at arm’s length and in the dark for as long as possible. Before its spectacularly messy finale, the head-scratching mystery thriller “Gone in the Night” barely holds itself together thanks to the star power of co-stars Winona Ryder and Dermot Mulroney.
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