![]() ![]() Named Diana, she cuts a creepy figure in silhouette, and she’s got long, long fingernails she can use to attack. Lights Out is obviously filmed on a smaller budget - it seems to take place in about two different locations, with just five or six characters - but the fact that it can turn literally any place into a house of horrors simply by flipping a light switch gives it a great boost when it comes to staging terrifying sequences.Īnd make no mistake: This is one scary monster. In particular, the film uses everything from candles to cellphone screens to increase the tension in moments when the monster has, say, cut power to a city block and the characters need to cross vast swaths of darkness with only their wits to protect them. There have been other creatures like this in movie history (perhaps most famously in Pitch Black, the film that spawned Vin Diesel’s Riddick character), but what makes Lights Out so much fun is that it takes place in our world, where light sources can pop up just about anywhere. Considering that films themselves are just contrasts of light and darkness, the concept gives director David F. Let’s just start with the fact that a monster that can’t attack when someone is standing in a pool of light is a great idea for a movie monster. Good: The monster is terrific on a bunch of levels See if you can spot the monster in this image. I’ll warn you before I do so, however.īut before that, let’s talk about the good, the bad, and the divisive of Lights Out. So to talk about why I enjoyed Lights Out so much, I’m going to have to spoil some things. ![]() But it’s the kind of movie where I realized about 10 minutes in how wrapped up I was in the lives of the characters, and realized with about 10 minutes left that I was holding my breath that the director and screenwriter wouldn’t screw everything up.Īnd while I loved the ending, it’s proven incredibly divisive for what it might seem to say about depression. Yes, it has problems - one big one in particular. And the movie’s central metaphor - the monster is depression! - is surprisingly durable, allowing for some great character moments. There are more movies at the Feo Amante Theater.There are sequences in this film that left the audience at my screening joyfully applauding their creativity and audacity. Oh, and as for that face? This is how he did it. Making someone jump at an ear banging noise isn't scary, it just pisses people off. ![]() In fact, people go so far, so often, in trying to talk themselves out of their fear of almost certain danger, that Insurance companies and Police Departments have put out pamphlets, put up billboards, and television ads, all basically saying, "If you come home to find your door is open - Don't Go In!"Įxtra kudos to David for not going for the cheat-cheap and irritating loud noise. Sometimes that works, and sometimes it doesn't. Whenever we're afraid, we all try and talk ourselves out of the fear. Blanket over her head - she tries to talk herself out of being afraid. One in which the protagonist ( played with shivery believability by Lotta Losten), otherwise secure in her high-rise but mundane home, finds herself blocked from her apartment's only escape, the door, by Some Thing. At just a little over 2 minutes, LIGHTS OUT is a combination of frights & fun-style Horror. You might be talking about Writer and Director, David F. "This Ray Bradbury-esque is one of the most memorable and one of the more original stories I've read in a long time."īe sure to watch this full screen using decent speakers or headphones.Ī woman is about to go to bed, but when she turns the lights out, someone or something is in the house. "'Willow Blue' will burrow under your skin and stay there long after you've put the book down." ![]()
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