It seems like 80% of the "indie" horror movies seem to have the same problems: no attention to detail, terrible writing, and dialog that sounds like it was written by a computer. With Hide in the Light, the most glaring issue is their total disregard for details and continuity. The movie is only an hour and fifteen minutes (not including credits), so I appreciate that they don't waste a lot of time getting to the orphanage and starting the horror, but they clearly rush the story and it feels like the production was rushed too. Right out of the gate, they establish that the orphanage has been abandoned for fifty years and there is a security guard that apparently is so predictable that they know he only come by the front gate (which they somehow have the key too) every two hours. Right as the guard passes the gate, they pull in their pickup truck through the gate and throw a tarp over it. The guard doesn't go in the building, so I'm not sure how his rounds take 2 hours or how he could not hear a pickup truck a few feet behind him. It's a horror movie, so obviously things don't go as planned. When their two hours is up, surely the guard noticed the large tarped vehicle in front of the building, right? At the very least, he has to hear the constant screaming from them trying to scare each other. But apparently not, because nothing happens. The actual orphanage building is supposed to have been abandoned for 50 years, but the inside looks far too good for that to be true. There is even a brand new, shiny steel Master lock on one of the doors, not sure how that could be 50 years old. They crowbar it off, but apparently that doesn't break it, it just pops it open(?) because they reuse it later. Every single window has white-orange light flooding through, either from terrible street lamps (which we didn't see from the exterior shots and really don't make sense around a building abandoned for 5 decades), the moonlight is orange or their is orange paper or tape over the window, or it was filmed during the day, and that is daylight that they color corrected. From what I saw, the last option seems most likely. Putting the mass of issues with detail and consistency, nothing else fares much better. The acting is awful and is made even worse with the terrible, stilted writing and dialog. Everyone constantly seems to forget that they are in a horror movie and have a demon to run from. I noticed actors smiling during "scary" scenes, they are terrible and conveying fear, and we constantly see the old "being pulled down the dark hallway by the legs" thing, but when they grab onto a door frame, it is glaringly obvious that no one is pulling their legs. They can't even convincingly pretend that they are hanging on to the door frame; they just kind of wiggle about. We even get a seven minute section of poorly acted drama that has no reason to be there other than to fill time. The movie looks good, as in they have a quality camera, but the effects are bad and they like to lean on creepy little kid laughs and generic demon sounds added in post. Hide in the Light is running over with cliches and is just another crappy, generic, low budget, indie horror film. It's bad bad, not so bad it's good, just bad.