Lights Out
2016 · Movie · PG-13 · 81 min · ★ 6.4 · 66% critics
A young woman tries to make sense of horrifying events that once shook her sanity and still haunt her family. As she searches for the source of the terror, she comes face to face with a supernatural presence tied to her mother—and the danger spreads to the people closest to her.
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Details
- Years
- 2016
- Release date
- 2016-07-21
- Language
- English
- Rated
- PG-13
- Runtime
- 81 min
- Critic score
- 66/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.4/10 (4,132 votes)
- Box office
- $148,000,000
- Budget
- $4,900,000
About
You’ll probably like Lights Out if you want a fast, unsettling horror built around fear in darkness and lots of chills; Not for you if you dislike jump scares or need deep, fully explained motives, similar to Oculus or Paranormal Activity 3.
Pros: clever darkness premise; great creature effects; strong tension | Cons: thin character depth; jump-scare overload; weak reason for anger
Themes
- suicide
- sibling relationship
- darkness
- supernatural
- paranormal phenomena
- basement
- evil spirit
- parenthood
- mental illness
- fear of the dark
- ghost
- jump scare
- +3 more
Cast & crew
Teresa Palmer
as Rebecca
Maria Bello
as Sophie
Gabriel Bateman
as Martin
Alexander DiPersia
as Bret
Alicia Vela-Bailey
as Diana
Billy Burke
as Paul
Andi Osho
as Emma
Maria Russell
as Gomez
Rolando Boyce
as Brian Andrews
Lotta Losten
as Esther
Directed by David F. Sandberg