Lights Out (2016)
2016
PG-13
81 Minutes
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, M...
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Note: I will be spoiling the movie in the review, so if you want to watch this horrendous movie with actual excitement, MAY GOD HAVE MERCY ON YOUR SOUL. This movie has more cliches and plot holes than sonic fan fiction. There were scenes where Rebecca was running away from Diana WHERE A LIGHT SWITCH WAS RIGHT IN FRONT OF HER. Like seriously, her hands were inches away from her being lifted into the air and thrown around, but they needed that in the movie for "terror." The characters are extremely two-dimensional and cliched. Rebecca's the edgy young adult who acts as the "strong independent woman" for the movie. Sophie's the "crazy person who's possessed." We don't even get to know what type of characters Martin and Bret are. All we know about Martin is that he's a scared kid. Other movies show what these types of characters truly are, (e.g The Shining, We see what types of things Danny likes and plays with, we know his past, etc.) AND BRET. He contributed nothing. Like every time he tries to speak with more than 2 people in the conversation, he gets out like at most 7 words. I feel like they just needed a character to call the police, which was pointless, by the way. Rebecca and Martin could have broken the door down, Bret could have kicked down the door or broken the lock, etc. But no, we have to get POLICE in this movie to save the "strong" and "independent" characters. And..... the police officers just die. They're the only ones that die in the movie except for the Dads. And SPEAKING of the dads, the plot twist is that Rebecca's dad was killed by Diana. I would have never figured that out with subtle hints like Martins dad getting killed by Diana, and Diana screaming out "YOULL NEVER TAKE SOPHIE AWAY FROM ME,", and Rebecca saying that "her dad just left one day." Subtlety, wow! And every jumpscare was the EXACT SAME THING. (Wow, there's a scary figure, I'm gonna keep flicking the lights until it moves 5 inches closer and scary music plays.) The short film was so much better, because there were so many unanswered questions. This full-length poor excuse for a horror movie answers these questions, but they were all terrible answers.0 member like this review.
