You *might* be sleeping with the lights on tonight...

Giving it a back story and more detail made it feel cheapened.

This is a surprisingly competent horror movie with chilling events , thrills and nail-biting scenes

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Maria Bello, Teresa Palmer, and Gabriel Bateman in Lights Out (2016)

Teresa Palmer and Gabriel Bateman in Lights Out (2016)

Teresa Palmer, Alexander DiPersia, and Gabriel Bateman in Lights Out (2016)

Teresa Palmer

Gabriel Bateman

Maria Bello

Eric Heisserer

David F. Sandberg

A supernatural entity reemerges to terrorize a family when the lights go out at night.

Lights Out

If you want to make it in Hollywood&apos;s horror industry nowadays, you have to make a scarily good short movie with one terrific idea and a handful of spooky images, and then simply hope that it&apos;ll go viral on the internet. If it works, influential producers will undoubtedly offer you a big sum of money to turn the short into a full-feature film and, with a bit of luck, your career is launched. It worked for Andy Muschietti with &quot;Mama&quot;, and now he&apos;s helming the massively popular &quot;It&quot; remakes. It even worked for James Wan in 2003 already, with &quot;Saw&quot;, and he&apos;s now so successful that he can act as influential producer to launch the careers of new arrivals, like he did for David F. Sandberg and his splendid &quot;Lights Out&quot;.

I&apos;m honestly happy to state that &quot;Lights Out&quot; is - at least in my own personal and humble opinion - the first mainstream horror movie in a very long time that is truly good and genuinely frightening. As cliched as it might sound, &quot;Lights Out&quot; is the type of fresh new film that restores hope and faith in in the horror genre for old and narrowly cynical fans like myself. The story is simple but highly effective, the lead characters are sympathetic and identifiable for a change, and the special effects (or even the lack thereof) definitely rank the most unnerving ones of the decade. Yes, it&apos;s another tale of an eerie ghost terrorizing a poor family, and admittedly several of the jump-scare moments are foreseeable, but the Diana character is authentically nightmarish and for me it was quite exceptional that I hoped for all these likable lead characters to survive instead of to die a quick &amp; painfully.

When Rebecca left home, she thought she left her childhood fears behind. Growing up, she was never really sure of what was and wasn&apos;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. But this time, as Rebecca gets closer to unlocking the truth, there is no denying that all their lives are in danger ... once the lights go out.

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If you want to make it in Hollywood's horror industry nowadays, you have to make a scarily good short movie with one terrific idea and a handful of spooky images, and then simply hope that it'll go viral on the internet. If it works, influential producers will undoubtedly offer you a big sum of money to turn the short into a full-feature film and, with a bit of luck, your career is launched. It worked for Andy Muschietti with "Mama", and now he's helming the massively popular "It" remakes. It even worked for James Wan in 2003 already, with "Saw", and he's now so successful that he can act as influential producer to launch the careers of new arrivals, like he did for David F. Sandberg and his splendid "Lights Out".

I'm honestly happy to state that "Lights Out" is - at least in my own personal and humble opinion - the first mainstream horror movie in a very long time that is truly good and genuinely frightening. As cliched as it might sound, "Lights Out" is the type of fresh new film that restores hope and faith in in the horror genre for old and narrowly cynical fans like myself. The story is simple but highly effective, the lead characters are sympathetic and identifiable for a change, and the special effects (or even the lack thereof) definitely rank the most unnerving ones of the decade. Yes, it's another tale of an eerie ghost terrorizing a poor family, and admittedly several of the jump-scare moments are foreseeable, but the Diana character is authentically nightmarish and for me it was quite exceptional that I hoped for all these likable lead characters to survive instead of to die a quick & painfully.

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