A loving homage that is all sincere, no snark. It does break the rules for some clever twists, but it's never making fun of horror movies. It's celebrating them in a way that shows we don't have to give this style up.
Lost After Dark is an intriguing attempt to recreate the style of a slasher straight out of the 80s, and while it does mostly succeed in this attempt, unfortunately it falls right in with the downright bad entries of the period.