Lights Out (2016 film)

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Lights Out is an American supernatural horror film directed by David F. Sandberg in his directing debut, produced by Lawrence Gray, James Wan, and Eric Heisserer and written by Heisserer. It stars Teresa Palmer, Gabriel Bateman, Alexander DiPersia, Billy Burke, and Maria Bello. It is based on Sandberg 2013 short film with the same name and features as Lotta Losten, who starred in short films.

The film has a world premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival on June 8, 2016, and was released in the United States and Canada on July 22, 2016, by Warner Bros.. The film received positive reviews and box office success, the best-selling $ 148 million with a budget of $ 4.9 million.

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Plot

At a textile factory, an employee named Esther meets the silhouette of a woman when the light goes out, but can not see it when the light is on. He warned his boss, Paul. She also goes to the woman and notes that she will not come to light. He was killed by the woman after he chased her through the factory.

Shortly thereafter, a young woman named Rebecca was summoned to her sister's school nursing office, Martin. Rebecca and Martin are half-sisters, sharing the same mother: Sophie. The nurse could not contact Sophie to let her know that Martin had fallen asleep in class these days. An official from the Child Protection Service asked Rebecca about Martin's living conditions. Rebecca informs Sophie officially of depression, and takes antidepressants. Rebecca also says that Paul is her stepfather, and that her real father fled when she was little.

Rebecca and her boyfriend, Bret, took Martin to Sophie's house. Martin tells Rebecca that Sophie has spoken to a woman named "Diana". Rebecca assures Martin that Diana is not a real person, and that she has also heard Sophie talk to imaginative Diana when she was a child. Rebecca quarreled with Sophie when she realized that her mother was taking no medicine, so she took Martin to her apartment so she could rest.

That night, Rebecca was awakened by the same woman who killed Paul after she saw him scratch the floor. Rebecca almost escaped the attack from the woman when she turned on the light and she disappeared. The next morning, Rebecca saw the word "Diana" had been scratched onto the floor, along with a figure of a woman's wand figure. Rebecca has a flashback when she finds the same name and image as a child, and realizes that Diana is real.

While her mother was on duty, Rebecca sneaked into Sophie's house and found a box of medical records and other research at Paul's office. Paul's findings reveal that Sophie was admitted to a mental hospital as a child. While there, he befriends a young patient named Diana. Diana suffers from a severe skin condition, and is accidentally killed by hospital staff when they perform surgery on her under strong light. Rebecca also finds out that Diana was in a mental hospital after her father committed suicide, and that it is believed that Diana was able to "get in people's heads".

Rebecca, Bret, and Martin intervened at Sophie's home about how Diana's spirit haunted them all. Sophie gets angry, says she will not leave her friend, then locks herself in her bedroom. The team decides to stay at Sophie, intending to get help in the morning. To avoid an attack from Diana at night, they set up the house to keep it as light as possible. This proved to be useless when Diana cut power to the environment. Diana traps Rebecca and Martin in the basement, and tries to kill Bret. Bret escapes from Diana, and drives to get help from the police. In the basement, Rebecca found a black light while searching for a light source to illuminate the crypt. When Rebecca clearly saw Diana with a black light, she realized it was not strong enough to harm her.

Bret returned with two police officers. Officers liberated Martin and Rebecca from the basement, only to be killed by Diana. When they flee home, Rebecca remembers Sophie still in her bedroom. As she climbs the stairs to take her mother, Diana tells Rebecca that she killed Rebecca's father many years ago. Diana throws Rebecca from the second floor. As Diana prepares to kill Rebecca, Sophie appears, with a gun from one of the dead officers. Sophie realized she was anchored for Diana in the real world, and committed suicide. When Sophie fell to the floor, Diana disappeared.

Later, Bret comforted Martin and Rebecca in the ambulance outside Sophie's house. The three of them looked a little scared when the ambulance lights flashed.

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Cast

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Production

Sandberg, along with his wife, Lotta Losten, created an initial short film for the film competition. Although the film did not win the competition, it soon became viral, leading to Sandberg to be contacted by several agents, to the point where he had to develop a spreadsheet to track them all. One of the contacts was Lawrence Gray who wanted to collaborate with James Wan to produce a long version. Although Wan enjoyed the brief, he hesitated that it could be turned into a feature until Sandberg produced care for his long version.

The move to Hollywood is rather busy for couples, which requires Losten to quit his job to do so. Once in Hollywood, the two can not get an apartment for lack of credit, forcing them to rent Airbnb every month.

Casting Gabriel Bateman and Teresa Palmer announced in June 2015; which is the same month when major photography began. Sandberg does not work with a film crew or visit a movie set before directing Lights Out; he should ask the first assistant director, "So when should I act?" Filmmaking wrapped on August 5, 2015.

The special effects of having ghosts appear and disappear are mostly done using a separate screen technique as it is also used in the short term. Sandberg says "Every time he's in a frame with another character, it's basically just a split screen.So you shoot with him and without him.You turn the camera on with him, you turn it off and he walks away, and then you play it again, it's super simple , actually. "Sandberg also made a list of what he called" light jokes ", or other ways to create light sources from flashlights to cell phones and shots. In the scene when Diana appears in Rebecca's room, James Wan suggests replacing the passing car lights in initial care with a flashing neon sign that appears in the final film.

Sandberg initially based the character of Rebecca a real girl who she knows is depressed and becomes the cutter that is the reason why Rebecca has a scar on her arm, but the development of the film makes her less depressed, and more of a ghost story where Diana will become a native die and become a ghost. Wan came up with the idea of ​​making Diana a ghost. Rebecca's girlfriend is also given a touch as a rocker, but is actually committed and responsible, even driving a safe car like Volvo. Another touch Sandberg likes is to make imaginary friends for the mother rather than figuratively having a friend for the child.

Suicide concern and ending

After hearing concerns from critics that the end of the film promotes suicide, Sandberg interviewed the AV Club where he said he was sad about the idea, and wanted to explain his position. He said that he originally wanted to make a movie about depression, because he also suffered, and one of his friends had committed suicide. Diana was not a ghost back then, but during the development of the film, it became more of a horror movie. There are still some themes about depression and mental illness. He initially shoots the second end of the film in which Martin becomes depressed and Diana returns again before he is killed. However, the test audience hates the end, saying that Sophie's sacrifice will be in vain.

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Release

The film has a world premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival on June 8, 2016. It also plays on Comic-Con on July 20, 2016, and was released on July 22, 2016.

box office

Lights Out earned $ 67.3 million in the United States and Canada and $ 81.6 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $ 148.9 million, against a production budget of $ 4.9 million.

In North America, Lights Out projected a gross $ 13-15 million from 2,900 theaters on its opening weekend. It generated $ 1.8 million from Thursday night playback and $ 9.2 million on the first day. The film surpassed expectations and earned $ 21.7 million in its opening weekend, ending in third place behind fellow newcomer Star Trek Beyond and The Secret Life of Pets.

In other areas, the film earned $ 8.5 million on its opening weekend of 3,737 screens in Russia and Australia's major markets along with 30 smaller European and East Asian markets. The film benefited from being released in the wake of the global success of The Conjuring 2 . It debuted in first place in Russia with $ 1.7 million. Other topperages are listed in South Korea ($ 3.9 million), France ($ 1.5 million), United States ($ 1.4 million) and Spain ($ 1.1 million). Its biggest producing markets are South Korea ($ 7.7 million), Mexico ($ 5.5 million), the United States ($ 4.5 million) and Spain ($ 3.9 million).

Critical response

In the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 76% approval rating based on 152 reviews, with a weighted average rating of 6.3/10. The important consensus of this site reads, "Lights Out makes use of the skilled a genre of solid genres - and some amazing performances - for an agitating, fearful experience that gives superior coldness without scrimping on stories. " At Metacritic, the film has a score of 58 out of 100, based on 34 critics, showing "mixed or average review". Viewers surveyed by CinemaScore gave this movie an average value of "B" on a scale up to F.

Lucy O'Brien from IGN gave the 7/10 movie, saying: "[w] an awful monster in essence, a great cast and last series endlessly, Light [ sic ] Out is the directorial debut Sandberg should be proud of.A clumsy script sometimes loosens his grip on the nerves, but chances are Diana will still make you sleep with the lights on for a while after leaving the theater. " Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times rewarded the 4-star movie of 4, stating: "the most cynical, tired, visible-all-before critics can not deny certain visceral reactions to a film. Lights Out gave me a cold. "Justin Lowe from The Hollywood Reporter wrote," [a] surprisingly a mother horror movie that relies heavily on emotional bonds split like the supernatural tension to creating tension, Lights Out is dealing with primal fears that threaten to uncover the fundamental family relationship, along with their sanity. "Jeannette Catsoulis of The New York Times wrote," [s] ] packing every crack with strong acting and fleet editing, Lights Out gives minimalist fear in old-school ways. "

Some criticism is less taken with the film. James Berardinelli of Reelviews gives 2 stars out of 4, saying: "[u] bad, the movie stumbles, offering too little fear and showing excessive dependence on the traditional horror film horror." Berardinelli hates film kamerawork, characters as "thinly drawn", and the scenario "spends a lot of time providing backstory..." Rex Reed from The Observer gives 1 star out of 4, says: "The screenplay focuses almost all in some clever and ingenious ways the characters do to keep the lights on, prevent subsequent attacks and stay alive-lights from candles, flashlights, cell phones, cars in the driveway-before the battery dies, the fun runs out quickly and so does the " gotcha "."

Accolades

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Sequel

In July 2016, a week after the film's release, it was announced that New Line Cinema and Warner Bros. Pictures has brought up the sequel. Heisserer and Sandberg will return to write and direct the film, respectively, while Wan and Lawrence Gray will return to produce under the monster Atomic Monster and Gray Matter Productions.

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See also

• List of ghost movies

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References

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External links

• Official website
• Exit Light on IMDb
• Lamp Out in Mojo Box Office
• Lamp Out in Rotten Tomatoes
• Lamp Out in Metacritic
• Lamp Out in AllMovie

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