Lights Out Film Review

Factoflife - Lights Out is a 2016 American supernatural horror film, directed by David F. Sandberg in his major directorial debut, produced by Lawrence Grey, James Wan, and Eric Heisserer, and written by Heisserer. It stars Teresa Palmer, Gabriel Bateman, Billy Burke and Maria Bello. It is based on Sandberg's 2013 short film of the same name and features Lotta Losten, who starred in the short. Check out for more information about this film, scary short films, horror short films news.

The movie had its world premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival on 8 June 2016, and was released in the United States on 22 July by Warner Bros. The film has grossed over $99 million and received generally positive reviews.

Lights Out tells the story of a family who is dealing with a very mysterious presence that is, and has been, terrorizing them for many years. Rebecca (Teresa Palmer) is forced to pick up the pieces after her step-father dies of mysterious circumstances and her mother Sophie (Maria Bello), falls into a deep, and very troubling depression. Her brother Martin (Gabriel Bateman) is caught in the middle of the madness and begins to experience something strange, which echoes a dark part of his sister Rebecca's past. As the pieces of the puzzle start to come together and the lights go out, as most viewers of horror movies would hope, things get scary, but never not fun.

There isn't much in Lights Out that you haven't seen before - except that you know where the evil spirit is and it still "gets" you every now and then. It's a film that never tries to reinvent the wheel and can get away with it because it has a fun premise and knows how to use its tropes effectively. A lean running time of just over 80 minutes keeps it from getting dull. And while it does have a lot of jump startles, their awfulness is mitigated by the idea of the villain, and the film literally showing us all it can - a bunch of darkness - which helps to justifies it, I think.

Teresa Palmer delivers one of her better performances - seriously - as an alt-rock twentysomething who is both trying to figure her life out and overcome the trauma and guilt of her childhood. Maria Bello is great as the depressed and co-dependent mother. Alexander DiPersia is likable as Rebecca's boyfriend - and the film flips the traditional "commitment-phobia" role from him to Rebecca, which is neat. Gabriel Bateman is not good, but kids usually aren't. It's a shame that many of the early scares and emotional moments rely on him - he can't pull off much effectively.

Lights Out is a simple horror movie that doesn't try to do much beyond its studio and genre constraints - and it doesn't really need to. When talented filmmakers get ahold of a solid premise, they're going to do something good with it. Horror fans should come in droves to this one. A strong idea for a villain, good central characters, a couple of ideas to think about, decent acting from the adult actors, and a way to justify its jump startles allows Lights Out to be one of the better horror films we're going to see come from a studio this year.

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