![]() ![]() The filmmakers seem to clearly understand that, to create sustained suspense, you need to have characters the audience can care about and leave what’s in the shadows left to the imagination. LIGHTS OUT accomplishes something very few horror movies do: find a way to be creative and incredibly suspenseful without gratuitous violence or lewd content. Now, Diana is connected to Sophie and won’t let anyone suppress her, including Rebecca and Martin.Ĭan the two siblings stop this evil spirit before it kills them? This friend, Diana, was obsessed with Sophie when they were children, but was thought to be dead after an experiment gone wrong. Rebecca begins to investigate what this figure is and learns about a friend her mother had in a mental facility when she was younger. The figure lunges for Rebecca, but she happens to turn the light on just in time, and the figure disappears. That night, however, Rebecca sees a figure in the shadows that disappears every time the flickering outdoor light turns on, but then reappears when the light turns off. When Rebecca sees her mother isn’t stable, she takes Martin to stay with her for the night so he can get some sleep. The school nurse calls Martin’s older sister, Rebecca, who ran away from home when she was younger because of the mother, Sophie’s, mental illness. Not too long after this death, the man’s son, Martin, causes concern at school because he continually falls asleep in class. This figure chases him into an office and kills him the dark. Later while locking up, the man notices a figure in the shadows of the warehouse. Video chatting with his son, the two talk about the sickness the boy’s mother has, and the dad reassures his son he’s going to make Mom better. It opens in a warehouse where a man is working late. LIGHTS OUT is a superbly directed horror movie. (BB, C, O, L, VV, S, N, DD, M) Strong moral worldview about family, courage and redemptive self-sacrifice, with light Christian symbolism about light casting out evil where good wins over evil in the end, but occult elements where demonic supernatural forces are not defeated by faith or similar supernatural means five obscenities and three profanities strong intense, scary violence includes man is killed by a demonic spirit, and his mangled body is seen all bloody, two police officers are killed (one of them with has his eyes gouged), (SPOILER) woman shoots herself to save her family from the spirit, and many moments of intense peril with scary images of the spirit’s figure in the dark implied fornication with an unmarried couple shown lying in bed, and a reference to going “another round” no explicit sexual nudity, but upper male nudity, woman is seen in undergarments, and woman changes behind a foggy glass no alcohol use no smoking but a woman has a marijuana bong in her apartment and, slighty dysfunctional family. Because of those elements and the occult, demonic villain, MOVIEGUIDE® advises extreme caution for LIGHTS OUT. LIGHTS OUT doesn’t have graphic or extreme violence, but there are a few gruesome, scary and intense moments and some brief foul language. There’s also a symbolic element of light casting out evil, which echoes what Jesus says in John 3:19 to 21. The characters do fight to protect one another, show courage and even display self-sacrifice. As far as supernatural thrillers go, however, LIGHTS OUT fails to address the supernatural problem with a supernatural solution. LIGHTS OUT accomplishes something few horror movies do: find a way to be creative and suspenseful without gratuitous violence or lewd content. Rebecca and her brother must stop Diana before she kills them and others. ![]() Now, Diana’s spirit has attached herself to Rebecca’s mother. As Rebecca investigates, she learns her mother had a mentally ill childhood friend named Diana, who died. A young woman, Rebecca, tires to save her younger brother from a figure that lurks in the shadows of their mother’s home. LIGHTS OUT is a superbly directed horror thriller. ![]()
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