Lights Out

Review/Thoughts

So I watched a little horror flick by the name of Lights Out and was disappointed.

Relationships didn’t seem real and the dialogue/delivery was… Not very good.

But even so, with all of its flaws, it scared me. Someone told me they agreed with the above points but it scared them, and that’s what mattered in a horror movie.

That’s great, but I like a movie to have more substance. I appreciate that it was scary, but if it had the dialogue/delivery to back it up I’d be ecstatic.

It has a killer premise.

Then I thought more about the premise, at which point I came to realize it was more about the mother’s mental illness than a murderous mind-controlling ghost-thingy.

Her disease was represented by a physical being that came back when she didn’t take her medication, then people in her life leave because they’re afraid of her “dark friend” (or murdered by her which could just be a physical metaphor for her disease killing their ability to love/connect to her).

If the movie had dove more into the “manifestation of her disease” angle, then I can’t help but feel the entirety of the script (and thereby film) would have had a sharper focus, which would lead to sharper dialogue. Hopefully better delivery but, who knows with actors*.

*I’ve acted before, please don’t hurt me.

Watch the movie if you wanna be scared by a kick-a$$ premise, don’t go for the dialogue/delivery and don’t go for the complex relationship dynamics.

Don’t like horror films? Skip it.