Lights Out

This movie tested insanely high and everybody(well, most of everybody) loves it. Sleeper hit, maybe. Probably.

The short it's based on would have been better if the monster were a little less silly-looking. But they seem to have fixed that much.

Seen a lot of trailers on this on You Tube. I've seen the "monster silhouetted in a door is gone when you turn the lights on" often, but horror movies aren't really for me anyway.

Oh, apparently this movie is based on that short film. Huh.

edited 21st Jul '16 3:44:32 PM by theLibrarian

I want to see this one, I just haven't gotten the chance to yet. Might wait and get it on DVD. I've loved it since the first trailer. Just that silhouette . . . brrr, awesome!

Saw it 2 days ago in an early screening. It's pretty good. A bit high on jump scares for my taste, but it does the rest fairly well. Funny too. It's genre savvy enough that the movie does wink at you playing some of the tropes, but it never feels like it's becoming a parody of the genre.

edited 22nd Jul '16 10:30:59 AM by CobraPrime

I just got back home from seeing it. It's one of the best horror movies I've seen in a long time. :)

I saw this a couple of days ago and it was really good. I usually don't go for movies that rely on jump scares, but the ones in this one were pretty good.

It's not as great as It Follows or even The Babadook, but it's still a solid movie.

You wouldn't happen to have seen it at the Fantasia festival, would you?

Yup

Cool, I was there as well! The energy in the room made the movie way more humorous than it should have been.

I liked the part where the boyfriend made Diana disappear by turning on his car headlights. Now that's Product Placement.

So how do Diana's powers work? Can she teleport and to what extent? Does she teleport reflexively when her whole body is immersed in light to avoid pain or does she cease to exist on this plane when immersed in light? If she teleports it explains how she caused power outages, but raises further questions. I watched the movie but without multiple rewatches it's hard for me to piece together, if there even is anything to piece together.

edited 22nd Aug '16 1:26:23 PM by Braincogs

I was trying to wrap my head around it as well...

I saw the movie last week. Liked it. It wasn't as intense as I expected/hoped, but it worked. I can see why the ending enraged some people, though.

It was a pretty solid flick. The dramatic parts lack a bit of weight sometimes, and Diana's shtick runs dangerously close of getting old (lights out, show up, toss someone around like a ragdoll, rinse and repeat), but it manages to work very well with its premise. It's decently scary.

I recall a woman in the theater was scratching her head from time to time, so I tapped her shoulder and the woman freaked out and cowered in her chair, looking at me with sheer untold terror and whimpering "please God no" until she realized I was, in fact, human. The theater and we had a laugh about it. The fact I have long claw-like fingernails (much like Diana) probably added to the factor.

As for Diana, it seems to me she basically phases in and out of existence whenever light shines on her, so it seems like she teleports because she's wandering around in a phantom dimension.

Compared to other horror movies, particularly other PG-13 horror movies, I appreciated that the film cuts to the chase and starts with a Cold Open of sorts. There was never a boring part of the movie for me.

I would have to see it again, but it seemed she traveled quite quickly from the closet to under the bed. Though I suppose that could be explained by time and/or space working differently in the other plane.

The main question for me is for at the end: why didn't she teleport/plane shift when the mom shot herself? (Or is that what she actually did and just used the opportunity to fake her own death?)

Another thing, regarding the very last shot of the movie: Was Diana on top of a telephone pole at the end? I didn't notice the shape until the end, and I'm not sure if my eyes were deceiving me.

edited 22nd Aug '16 5:15:18 PM by Braincogs