![]() Her sickness has brought about vivid memories of a childhood spent with best friend Diana, who had severe medical issues of her own that caused extended stays in a mental institution. Whatever happened to the family is centered on mother, Sophie (Maria Bello) whose current mental state continues to unravel to the point of needing heavy medication to control the deep bouts with depression. She has a fairly good idea what’s been keeping him up at night and knows that if it’s the same thing that drove her to abandon the family, she can’t let him face that alone. Though returning home is certainly not on her agenda, Rebecca’s concern grows after she receives a call from Child Protective Services that Martin has been falling asleep in class. Now she’s distant, disconnected, and almost completely estranged from her family. ![]() Rather than face her fears, Rebecca simply moved out of the family home when she turned 16. It’s brisk, it’s breezy, and at a fast-paced 81 minutes, Lights Out never overstays its welcome.Īfter a disturbing little prelude that takes place in a mannequin warehouse (what could be more scary?), we flash forward to meet 10-year-old Martin (Gabriel Bateman) who seems to be experiencing the same unexplained and terrifying events that had once tested the sanity of his much-older step-sister, Rebecca (Teresa Palmer). Instead he stays with many of the tried-and-true genre tropes that have always scared the pants off us, and just makes them work. He never tries to reinvent the genre and never shies away from the familiar. Sandberg takes that universal source of unease, and molds a spooky little yarn around it. Sandberg brings to big screens Lights Out, an effectively creepy little film that preys upon our primal fear of the malignant evil we all think resides in the dark. Under the production team of horror master James Wan, first time director David F. I knew it to be, but I was never able to prove it… until now. ![]() And I always knew that the crawl space under my bed was the shadowy central hub of all that evil activity. There WAS something hellish that lived in the pitch-black corners and darkened recesses of my childhood bedroom. ![]()
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