Review of Lights Out (2016) by Edward C — 16 Sep 2016

Lights Out(2016).

Starring: Teresa Palmer, Maria Bello, Alicia Vela Bailey, Gabriel Batemen, Emily Alyn Lind, Alexander DiPersia, Maria Russel, Elizabeth Pan, Rolando Boyce, Billy Burke, Alejandro Cuello, Andi Osho, Lotta Losten.

Directed By: David F. Sandberg.

Review.

Must not turn off lights, must not turn off lights, must not turn off lights! Well then sleep, screw it! Three years ago David F. Sandberg made a short called lights out, it got really popular on the internet(which is odd considering I didn't see it) and New Line Cinema partnered with him to make it into a feature film. The only two reasons I wanted to see Lights Out because well James Wan produced it and so did Eric Heisserer who also did the screenplay(the other reason I was anticipating this).

When Rebecca left home, she thought she left her childhood fears behind. Growing up, she was never really sure of what was and wasn't real when the lights went out...and now her little brother, Martin, is experiencing the same unexplained and terrifying events that had once tested her sanity and threatened her safety. A frightening entity with a mysterious attachment to their mother, Sophie, has reemerged.

This feels like my Poltergeist, everyone says about that film that its mostly like a coexisting horror film and family drama. Lights Out is the same way which is what really makes it stand out. You don't get a lot of horror films that revolve a family, I mean there may be movies with a family like The Conjuring but we mostly follow Ed and Lorraine Warren in that film. But no in this film it's just the family Rebecca, her mother, Martin and Bret(Rebecca's boyfriend) who surprisingly isn't a throw away character but he wasn't memorable much.

The atmosphere is oozing with dark dread and makes the film quite intense. The actors in the movie are all great and they work well off each other they had good chemistry. Although it has like one scene where Martin makes a stupid decision, You want the door opened or closed? Open, your like no kid wrong move. It also has like some continuity errors like theirs a bit of light but the door moves just a little bit and opens but it is dark on the other side of that door so I shrugged it off but it seemed odd the door opened.

Lights Out has a creepy dark atmosphere with a great cast with genuine scares and a little bit of jump scares, It's one of the best horror films of this year I'm giving Lights Out a five out of five.