Alex is the good boyfriend and offers his assistance, and the trio nervously awaits their next terrifying encounter with Diana. Once it is established that Diana is very much a real and present entity that will kill anyone who tries to control a severely depressed Sophie who has just lost her husband, Paul ( Billy Burke), at the hands of Diana in the film's opening sequence, it falls on Rebecca and the precocious Martin to make a plan to extract the manifestation of Diana from their home without endangering their mother. Diana is in fact, a manifestation of the dead girl Sophie met at Mulberry Hill Hospital. The two form a theory that when their mother is in a particularly bad way with her depression and general craziness, Diana becomes more prevalent with the intent of protecting Sophie at any cost. Rebecca tells Martin about the tragic backstory of Diana and that she was not only evil but also had the ability to inhabit the minds of people with fragile or broken psyches after she died. It's almost as if they are inexorably connected - like one cannot exist without the other. Fast-forward several decades, and it appears that Sophie and Diana are still together. She also finds out that Diana was mentally ill in a most nefarious and psychopathic way, and would do anything to make sure that Sophie remained sick so the two could be together forever. So, she begins to do some research to uncover whatever she can about the mysterious "Diana," and finds out that she and her mother were both patients at Mulberry Hill Psychiatric Hospital at the same time when they were young, preteen girls. This image only appears as an outline of a wretched and decrepit, old female with long, wiry hair and can only be seen when captured in the very limited, ambient moonlight when all the brighter overhead lights and nearby lamps are turned off.Īfter her experience in her own bedroom, Rebecca starts to entertain the idea that maybe her mother's tale about an evil spirit inhabiting the darkness is more than just one of her crazy manifestations or a hallucination. But that night, Rebecca has a strange and ominous encounter at her apartment with a shadowy silhouette when she turns the lights out. Sophie has clinical depression and has a history of seeing things that aren't really there, so when Rebecca finds out that she has been telling him about an entity known as "Diana" that may be inhabiting their house, she feels that Martin is at risk by living with her, and takes him with her to stay at her place. Sophie and Martin live together in the house, and they are both extremely vulnerable. Like something is in the old and creaky house waiting in its darkest corners for something, or someone. But something isn't quite right about the house where she once lived and grew up. She lives in an apartment close to her young brother and mother's house, and she is in an unremarkable relationship with the good-natured Bret ( Alex DiPersia). Rebecca has what appears to be a somewhat normal life. But Sandberg also makes the most out of the prolonged and tense moments spent in the dark and shadowy corners where something wicked is lurking, and it all comes to a head with a shocking conclusion. And when we revisited the film, we were reminded of why Lights Out made such an impression as the edge-of-your-seat thrills and jump scares come at you in rapid succession. Sandberg struck a chord with audiences and the film went on to be a surprise hit, earning close to $150 million on a budget of just $5 million. Something about the movie based on the short film of the same name by director David F. We have seen many entries into this subgenre and some have been done well like The Amityville Horror, The Conjuring, Sinister, and House on Haunted Hill, but there have been too many duds to list here. The film (which has just hit Netflix) was yet another horror film that revolves around a spirit lurking in the childhood house of the main character, Rebecca, ( Teresa Palmer) her younger half-brother Martin ( Gabriel Bateman), and their uneven, psychologically troubled mother Sophie ( Maria Bello). There wasn't much warning ahead of 2016's Lights Out that indicated it would be the box office bonanza it became.
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