Don't Turn Out the Lights

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Don't Turn Out the Lights

2023

1h 49m

Horror

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Reuniting for an unforgettable weekend, a group of high school friends takes a break from their separate lives at college to travel by RV to a musical festival. Their exciting weekend plans quickly unravel as they find themselves fighting to survive each other and the unknown.

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Phil Hoad

Guardian

Fickman ends up buried by the cliches he’s invited over the threshold.

Rated: 2/5

Mar 10, 2025

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Simon Abrams

RogerEbert.com

A lightly metaphysical body count movie set primarily in a beat-up recreational vehicle, it meanders more than it purposefully goes anywhere. That’s a compliment, mostly.

Rated: 2.5/4

Sep 6, 2024

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Jeffrey Lyles

Lyles' Movie Files

Horror thriller fans looking for a good scare probably need to catch another ride. This one has too many problems to justify taking the road trip.

Rated: 3/10

Oct 5, 2024

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Joel Copling

Spectrum Culture

It’s hard to doubt that some of the film’s effectiveness was the unintentional result of a very low budget.

Sep 12, 2024

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Abbie Bernstein

Assignment X

Horror in and around a stopped RV.

Rated: B-

Sep 10, 2024

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Todd Jorgenson

Cinemalogue

... takes itself too seriously instead of leaning into the campy absurdity.

Sep 6, 2024

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Darlene J

At first, I didn’t think I was gonna be able to watch it because it starts out pretty tacky and there’s a lot of “woo girl” scenes. But then it started to get better ~and then I was actually interested in it ~and then it actually got kind of scary ~so yeah, pretty good horror flick. I mean those kids kinda had it coming. Hahaha

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

05/19/25

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Lane L

Constant secondhand embarrassment, wasn’t scary or funny. And I could see the physical backdrops behind them. I’d give it 0 stars but alas, I can’t.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

03/17/25

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Jacob C

Interesting premise with a cool concept. However, the dialogue is painfully unfunny. While it has a cool atmosphere, the execution of the film severely holds it back.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/03/25

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Isaac O

Skip this..I'm watching it & literally reviewing this mess of a movie. Who wrote this crap? Characters have no sense, no chemistry that makes me believe that they could be friends. Their motivation for anything dealing with survival is illogical. Dialog is awful. Skip it

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

02/01/25

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Audience Member

Not so bad for a low budget 🎥 movie.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

01/01/25

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A_ P

This had the potential of being good. I think the writers/directors had the idea of this being a campy comedy/horror, but it fell flat. Half of it being because the acting was bad and so over-acted, and secondly, it was incoherent. It was going in different directions, without there ever really being any explanations. Some movies leave the ending mysterious so the watchers can create their own theories, but nobody could even do that because it was so messy, going in multiple different directions throughout the movie, there was no possible way I could figure out the ending and what actually happened. It did have a few moments to it that were a little creepy. The only reason I even turned it on was because the trailer looked interesting. But the trailer was 50 times better than the movie itself. Wouldn’t recommend. Glad I was able to watch it for free on a Hulu 30 day trial.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

11/29/24

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Synopsis

Reuniting for an unforgettable weekend, a group of high school friends takes a break from their separate lives at college to travel by RV to a musical festival. Their exciting weekend plans quickly unravel as they find themselves fighting to survive each other and the unknown.

Director: Andy Fickman
Producer: Todd Slater, Grant Slater, Betsy Sullenger, Scott Prisand, Andy Fickman, Katie Leary, Michael Speyer
Screenwriter: Andy Fickman
Distributor: Quiver Distribution
Production Co: Oops Doughnuts Productions
Genre: Horror
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 6, 2024
Runtime: 1h 49m

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