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It has some resonance in that it shows how relationships can suffer when a spouse is trying to help their partner through a mental illness or how it can be passed down from one generation to the next, but the way Lights Out resolves this plot (if the movie is positing it has an answer or opinion on mental health to begin with) is deeply problematic in terms of its “advice” on how to conquer it. It’s not a horror all-timer, but it’s an enjoyable night out at the movies and one you’ll remember a few years from now when you turn to your spouse and say “Hey, remember when we saw Lights Out? That’s was fun.” Where I think it has some problems is if you read the movie as making a statement on mental illness. If read at the surface level, I think that Lights Out is good. This film is edited down to its essentials. That’s what a lean, muscular 81 minute runtime does. Come to think of it, this movie doesn’t really even have a B plot. I say well-written because he’s just nice and supportive and doesn’t have character baggage that gets in the way of the movie’s A plot. Also very good is a well-written boyfriend character (to Rebecca) played by Alexander DePersia. You never know if her character is going to be a nurturing and protective mother or someone with a loss of grip on reality. There’s a certain unpredictability of what she’s going to bring to each scene and that’s a lot of fun. Bello’s part is trickier, as she has to play someone with mental health issues and not be manic. She’s great at playing a mixture of warm but distant, guarded but vulnerable, and her American accent is on point it's just gravelly and weary enough to make the audience believe that she’s kind of tired of the shit she’s currently going through, having been through it before. I’ve always thought that Teresa Palmer was a breath of fresh air in any movie she was in (she’s another one of the great Australian beauties in film…do I need to move there?) but here she’s really given a nice character to play and she proves to be a solid anchor and not just a valuable ensemble player. The performances are pretty strong, too, particularly by Palmer and Bello. The squeaks of doors, the scraping of a floor, the thud of lights running out of power or flickering to come back to life, etc., all add invaluably to the scare sequences in Lights Out. While his producer James Wan is all about moving the camera, Sandberg shines with the film’s sound design, and Lights Out is partially as suspenseful and effective as it is on the shoulders of its sound crew. Sandberg really shows an assured hand behind the camera. As an expansion of a three minute short film into an 81 minute feature, David F. When it’s revealed that Martin is being haunted by the same entity that drove his stepsister Rebecca (Teresa Palmer) away, Rebecca returns, coming to Martin and her mother’s aide.
It tells the story of a young boy named Martin (Gabriel Bateman) having trouble at home with his mother (Maria Bello).
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