Lights Out

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Lights Out

PG-13

Released Jul 22, 2016

1h 17m

Horror

Mystery & Thriller

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When Rebecca (Teresa Palmer) left home, she thought that her childhood fears were behind her. As a young girl growing up, she was never really sure of what was real when the lights went out at night. Now, her little brother Martin (Gabriel Bateman) is experiencing the same unexplained and terrifying events that jeopardized her safety and sanity. Holding a mysterious attachment to their mother (Maria Bello), a supernatural entity has returned with a vengeance to torment the entire family.

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Critics Consensus

Lights Out makes skillful use of sturdy genre tropes -- and some terrific performances -- for an unsettling, fright-filled experience that delivers superior chills without skimping on story.

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Ed Potton

Times (UK)

There are scares from the off in the short, punchy horror Lights Out, adapted by the director David F Sandberg from his short film.

Rated: 3/5

Oct 10, 2016

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Donald Clarke

Irish Times

The thrills are well orchestrated in a flick that knows not to outstay its welcome.

Rated: 3/5

Aug 22, 2016

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Geoffrey Macnab

Independent (UK)

In its own deeply contrived way, the film is just as frightening as you want it to be.

Rated: 3/5

Aug 18, 2016

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Zach Pope

Zach Pope Reviews

Excellent jump scares forgettable characters but Palmer is great!

Aug 7, 2023

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Keith Garlington

Keith & the Movies

It does employ a few all-too-familiar tricks, but they certainly don’t undercut the many things the film deserves credit for.

Rated: 4/5

Aug 23, 2022

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

While Sandberg orchestrates a few sequences of heavy tension, Lights Out doesnt quite click or retain a place in our minds after the end credits.

Rated: 2/4

Apr 11, 2022

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Bobby J

Absolutely love this film. Had a great story line and was absolutely terrifying. Highly recommend

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

10/24/24

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Jacob B

I'm sorry, guys but this Conjuring-adjacent film (not part of the franchise but James Wan was a producer and, despite this film explicitly being a work of fiction, still seemed to me like it was clearly gunning for that crowd), while not bad, was an underwhelming horror movie. There are things to like about it. The acting is good, the characters aren't generic horror movie stereotypes, it makes a good first impression and the cinematography's solid but the film felt way too short, I didn't find the villain to be that scary and the ending can be interpreted as stigmatising mental illness, not helped by the fact that this wasn't the original ending. I just thought this film was forgettable is all I'm saying and that it felt like a first attempt at feature-length filmmaking before his improved efforts on Annabelle: Creation. And maybe the concept of "horror movie villains as personifications of mental illness" just doesn't appeal to me. At least that's what I think after doing some self-reflection on it. I didn't hate Lights Out. It just didn't make me afraid of the dark like it wanted to do.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

09/17/24

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Jazzlyn V

Good movie overall had good jumpscares but the ending was simple compared to the beginning of the movie.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

07/27/24

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Nick K

Πολύ καλή ταινία με πολύ καλή ιστορία. Την προτείνω για ανθρώπους που δεν φοβούνται και τόσο διότι έχει αρκετές τρομακτικές σκηνές. Η ταινία γενικά είναι πολύ καλή και έχει πολύ ωραία πλοκή με ανατρεπτικό τέλος.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

07/25/24

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AIDEN M

This is yet, another overrated film.It felt like a downgrade version of insidious.The movie was boring because of how predictable it was, the characters were quite stupid in certain parts of the film, and the ending just felt dumb.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

06/17/24

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Audience Member

This movie did not deserve 75%! If you only like jump scares this is for you, but to me this movie was lazy with 0 creativity and about 80% of the movie is just jump scares. You can sleep real easy after this one

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

06/05/24

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Synopsis

When Rebecca (Teresa Palmer) left home, she thought that her childhood fears were behind her. As a young girl growing up, she was never really sure of what was real when the lights went out at night. Now, her little brother Martin (Gabriel Bateman) is experiencing the same unexplained and terrifying events that jeopardized her safety and sanity. Holding a mysterious attachment to their mother (Maria Bello), a supernatural entity has returned with a vengeance to torment the entire family.

Director: David F. Sandberg
Producer: James Wan, Lawrence Grey, Eric Heisserer
Screenwriter: Eric Heisserer
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures
Production Co: Grey Matter, Atomic Monster
Rating: PG-13 (Disturbing Images|Brief Drug Content|Some Thematic Material|Terror Throughout|Violence)
Genre: Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jul 22, 2016, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 11, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $67.3M
Runtime: 1h 17m

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