LIGHTS OUT HORROR FULL MOVIE MOVIE
They’re all there, but unless you’re Ellen Ripley this movie is going to scare you and odds are you’re going to do one of those three things a time or two during the film. You have your chatterboxes (who try to keep their own anxiety in check by cracking wise every ten seconds), the pointers (who see something in every shadow), the armchair quarterbacks (who shout helpful advice to the hapless characters in the film).
LIGHTS OUT HORROR FULL MOVIE FULL
Seeing it in a full theater is a delight. It all builds to a crescendo of scares in the final twenty minutes. It’s a lot like The Ring in that respect, and the monster’s secrets are revealed concurrently with a steady increase in tension and horror. Not only because those times are rare, but also because there’s a well-developed backstory to help explain the origins of the monster. Because of that, on the rare times that the movie actually stops to let you catch your breath and let the characters talk out what is going on, you don’t complain. Unlike other horror movies, which have plots so thin and worthless they make the slow moments a chore and the exposition a laugher, the story here is actually very good. The movie doesn’t cheat it sticks to the concept and finds every possible way to milk it for the duration of the picture, often to terrifying (and sometimes very inventive) results. But even the short cheated at the end of it, when you see the baddie in all its glory in the bright bedroom. All the short does is introduce the basic concept (a boogeyman that can’t go into the light). If you’ve seen the short ( it’s only a couple minutes long) don’t think that you know how the movie is going to go: The villain is almost entirely different. There’s not much down time, very little stopping for exposition and almost no moment where you feel completely at ease. Probably because it was a short-film adaptation the movie only runs an hour and twenty minutes. In this case, director David Sandberg and writer Eric Heisserer did a great job expanding the concept and making it work for feature-length. The short film maximizes the premise perfectly but sometimes what works in a short doesn’t translate to a full-length film (the animated movie 9 is one, the horror film Mama is another). But if the lights suddenly go off…it’s game on. Turn the light on and the monster disappears. That sounds like most movie monsters, but in this case it’s by design. The premise is simple enough: There’s a monster that is only active in darkness. This one is based off a short movie from 2013 (directed by the same man who helmed the full-length version, so good for him!). Take a dash of The Ring, add in a little of Del Toro’s Mama and give it a James Wan production, and you have the recipe for a great horror film. It’s been a good year to go to the cinemas and wet your pants. ( great movie) and The Purge: Election Year (pass) which had terrifying moments throughout.
And then there movies like 10 Cloverfield LN. Bye Bye Man and Strangers 2 will finish out the year with December releases. I skipped the first Ouija movie but the sequel, due out in October, looks to be a much better film. A pair of scary films are in September: The Woods (which has potential to be as scary for this generation as The Blair Witch Project was to mine) and Before I Wake (which was released months ago in Europe and is finally getting a US release in mid-September).
August 26th (my birthday!) will see the release of Don’t Breathe, with it’s very clever premise and terrifying trailer. Conjuring 2 released last month to glowing reviews ( including right here on CoW). 2016 has been and promises to continue being a great year for scary movies.
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