Man versus Film
So Lights Out is the new horror by uber producer James Wan the man that made such
classic horror movies as a The Conjuring one and two brought us he Saw franchise, Dead Silence
Insidious one and two I mean the guy pretty much knows horror and he's
brought with him David F. Sandberg the man who meet this really effective kinda
short that went viral got him the job of making like a feature movie and this is
it this is come out with and is based on the short
I'm kinda stuck between really liking it and really disliking it the concept itself is really fantastic so there's
this kinda demon, monster or something or other, some spooky wooky from the supernatural
and whenever there are shadows it can move about and whenever there's light it
can't paper so if you're in bright light if you're in artificial light you are fine
If you're in shadows or your light goes out or your candle goes out you're in for a tough
time of it and there's some really effective creepy moments built up by
using this and it's got to be admired these kind of moments and i had no problem with that
I liked the scare factor, i liked the creep factor i thought it was really good
I liked everything about that the main problems I had with actual movie itself
was this story everything with story based and it just didn't come together
in a cohesive whole the way I would have liked it to so you've got a family at the core of
this story so you've got the absentee daughter who has moved out you've
got her young stepbrother you've got the mother who has suffering through some
mental issues at the moment and you have a stepfather who gets an untimely death
right at the start of the movie they're basically plagued by this monster the
monster who is given the name Diana throughout and a backstory it just never quite
ties up with what's happening so fair warning if you haven't seen Light's Out i'm
going to spoil some aspects of it that just I need to get out so if you
haven't seen it i'd say if you like decent scary horror movies go and see if you're
really too bothered about the story you're going to enjoy this is 81 minutes you're
in, out, and it does what it says on the box
good times to be had if you're looking for something a little bit more if
you're looking for a little bit more of a cohesive story or something that tallies up then
this isn't the thing for you so 3... 2... 1...
spoilers ahead we find out in the movie that Diana is tethered to the mother and
stories because both well Diana used to be an actual person in a psychiatric home
along with the mother of the family when she was younger and she kind of latched
herself to her and when an experiment goes wrong she turns into this kinda
weird demon type thing but is still tethered to the mother of the story and
they state that fairly early on that the demon Diana is tied to the
mother and the ending of the movie is even more apparent what i couldn't understand
was the rules of this particular creature So Diana is like i said
teathered to the mother but yet can travel long distances go and kill the stepdad
can travel over to the daughter house scare the crap out of them can go anywhere it wants pretty
much which you know if you got to imagine if it's connected to the
mother kinda gonna have to be round about nearby her It doesn't quite work
as that they feel like they've got a really good premise and when they tried to
flesh out the story is not quite tied up and somebody's always seen The Babadook and
thought and what we can do we can tie this to mental illness people loved
that in the Babadook and people will like our movie because of that and it doesn't quite
work because it doesn't have the same duality that was in The Babadook
They try to say that it could be affected because of mental illness but it doesn't leave any
guesswork as to is this really happening is it not really happening Diana is very real from the start of the movie
so you don't have that Is it all in their heads do they all have a family trait
of mental illness Is this is going to run through the generations
it's just stating a fact straight off the bat Diana is real, Diana is a monster trying to hurt
them they have to stop it in the end I just kinda annoyed me that and Ultimately
I wasn't really sure about the rules of the Demon because it's tied to the
mother psychosis you're like really is it been for that, the years that it's been
gone has it always been tied to her is it only when she become psychotic that she, her mental illness
brings this thing to life which seems to be the rules of the movie but then it makes
it can move freely can do whatever it wants just too much going on is trying to be a
little bit to cover trying to be a little bit to deep and it loses all the focus
the movie's also extremely short which is good for a horror movie but in the theatre i was
in there were folk laughing at it as well which kinda detracted me from it and I
could understand why they were laughing at certain scenes because it doesn't make cohesive
sense they were kind of silly but like I said it's got this other side but
it's really creepy and scares are pretty good in the demons pretty good to
look at and unique in does these weird noises in the lights on and off is
a great touch for the demon moving so i walked out the movie really liking one aspect of it and
really heating the story aspects of it
I don't think I'm really going to go back to Lights Out, one and done for me up i'm
glad i saw i'm it by it already i'm going to give it two out of 5 it's not the best horror movie
I've seen recently i'm hoping to see more as we get into the horror season and
that's what I thought of lights Out let me know in the comment box below what
you thought of Lights Out and i'll see you next time on man versus film
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