Rating of
2.5/4
Get out whenever the Lights Out...
Indyfreak - wrote on 07/28/16
The PG13 rating doesn't stop "LIGHTS OUT" from being an effective economical horror movie. It doesn't overstay its welcome with a surprisingly short running time that you don't see with a lot of movies anymore. Even horror movies feel the need to needlessly pad out the running time for no good reason. Teresa Palmer is good as the young woman forced to confront a monstrous entity which appears only in darkness and cannot tolerate light of any kind. The child actor playing her kid brother was solid and the obligatory love interest (who looks a lot like Edgar Ramirez) isn't annoying for once. Maria Bello plays Palmer's mentally unstable mother in the film and honestly, her story sounds more interesting than Palmer's main conflict with the villainous creature.
