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Lights Out

2016

David F. Sandberg

Teresa Palmer, Maria Bello, Gabriel Bateman, Alexander DiPersia ...

5.2

9,988

Horror 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, 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 ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Andrew Barker Variety	"'Lights Out' is full of camp (most of it clearly intentional) (...) , and its underlying mythology is confused and often ridiculous. But there’s an invigorating leanness — and a giddy, almost innocent energy — to the filmmaking"	NEU
United States	Michael O'Sullivan The Washington Post	"'Lights Out' deserves to be considered in the company of such recent horror standouts as 'It Follows,' 'The Babadook,' 'Goodnight Mommy' and 'The Witch'."	POS
United States	Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"In the dark, this supremely scary movie glows (...) 'Lights Out' gave me the chills (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Justin Lowe The Hollywood Reporter	"A surprisingly maternal horror movie that relies as much on fraying emotional bonds as supernatural suspense to create tension (...) a solid debut for Swedish filmmaker David F. Sandberg"	POS
United States	Joe Morgenstern The Wall Street Journal	"Awfully inept"	NEG
United States	Scott Mendelson Forbes	"'Lights Out' is a well-written and well-acted dysfunctional family drama that works even absent the supernatural elements that eventually take center stage"	POS
United States	Robert Abele The Wrap	"David F. Sandberg expands on his viral video sensation about a terror seen only in the dark — and finds genre fun, if not necessarily genuine scares"	NEU

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