Lights Out (2016)

A Disappointing Continuation

I have absolutely never seen anything like this movie before. You have to see this movie.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Not scary, not effective, not original. If you're looking for a movie that is frightening and has genuine scares, you've come to the wrong place. Not even the jump scares were effective. I couldn't even finish the movie out of boredom. There are much better horror movies out there. Don't waste your time on this one.

Being bloated is never a good thing, however, also being too short while not really delivering the full story, and/or the full story in a compelling way, is also not a good thing. Lights Out lost me with its weak story development, its pacing as well as its short running time.Nobody ever explains the full situation to Bret. Diana's story comes to light in a very dim fashion. Rebecca is busy calling here mother a "nutjob", while she knows exactly what she is going through, and what makes it especially worse, is how that was shown literally in the scene before that comment. Sure, perhaps she is in denial, however the film doesn't portray that very well about her. All she seems like is distant, walls up, closed in and impersonal.Also, Martin knew at his age that Diana was the cause of his father's death, yet Rebecca spent all her life, under the impression that her father just ran out on them, when she went through the very same ordeal Martin did. Okay sure, maybe she didn't click for whatever reason, but for her to inform her mother, as if she didn't know either, just raises some concerns.The movie cutting to post Paul's death without some kind of reference or anchor, was jarring. For a short while you find yourself asking, how long has he been dead? It feels like its been a day, but the film gives the impression that it has been much longer, maybe even years, but is it? Can it?Then there's Rebecca still opting to stay in the house, to try and save her mother, when she already knows that Diana cannot harm her, which renders the entire endeavour moot.Lights Out has issues, that aren't necessarily plot holes, but rather more disregarded and dismissed expositions, and at 1 hour 15 minutes, I guess something was always going to suffer.From there, as gorgeous as Teresa Palmer is, and my oh my she is a stunner, her performance in this film was subpar, while everybody else was somewhat forgettable. The horror bit of the film was satisfying enough however, though it felt a bit repeated since it occurred in the same manner throughout the film without evolving. 5.4/10.

With decent metascores, I figured this movie would be worth a watch. The trailer looked cool, the concept seemed cool, even the movie poster was cool. But I have to say, while I made it through till the end, and was mildly entertained, it was just nothing special.This movie is fairly formulated...and I felt like I had seen it before. I had, but in parts of many other horror movies. From the kid being drug under the bed by his ankles, to the basement door slamming shut and locking the people in the basement, to the cops getting killed because they ignored the pleas of the people who knew about the monster, to the discovered box of files linking the monster to a dead mental institution patient, I just felt like I'd seen this all a hundred times.Marie Bello was good, as always, but the rest of the acting was just OK. The little boy was annoying because he didn't act very well. The effects were good, and the monster was creepy. Other than that I don't have much positive things to say about it.If you are looking for a good movie in this genre, watch The Babadook instead.

I enjoy horror movies, a lot, but not these melodramas mixing mental issues and supernatural. They lack the essence of a good horror movie which is to entice the audience in a psychological thriller to a point where you believe that what is going on the big screen could potentially happen when you go back to your house. Especially if you are American and live in one of those nice big houses. Ghosts usually do not pick Latin America houses. That's because they will probably have to haunt a studio place, where the living room is also the bedroom and there is one bathroom which in a standard American house would be a cat or do; g area. Anyway, my point is, this movie is a 5 or 6, it will scare you in a couple of scenes but that's it. As soon as you leave the theater, you will turn on your cell, check some e-mails, FB, and think of what you will see next time. This movie will definitely not stick only that when someone ask, you will probably say: "Oh yes, I saw it once". Please make the Sixth Sense sequal.