Rebecca, her lover Bret (Alexander DiPersia), and Martin decide to stay overnight to protect Sophie. Rebecca confronts Sophie about Diana but she denies the accusation. The figure is Diana: her vengeful ghost manipulates Sophie to be able to manifest, convincing her that they are friends and killing anyone trying to help her. Rebecca is seen taking a box of documents from Paul's office that contains information on Sophie, and discovers that the doctors experimented on Diana in the institution, killing her by overexposing her to light. She fails and Martin escapes to Rebecca's. Martin looks up to see Diana crouched above him and runs to turn on the light, but Diana throws Sophie out of the way to get to Martin. Diana had an unusual condition that made her skin light-sensitive. She tells him a story about Diana (Alicia Vela-Bailey), a friend she had when she was in a mental institution for her depression. That night, Sophie has a movie night with Martin, but includes her imaginary friend, frightening him. The next morning, Rebecca finds what the woman was scratching into her floor: the name "Diana." She recalls her own experiences with Diana from her own childhood, and the reason she left when her father abandoned them. That night, she awakens to scratching by the silhouetted woman, who almost attacks her, though Rebecca manages to turn the light on, making the figure disappear. Rebecca takes Martin home, but after a fight with their mother, she takes him to her apartment to protect him. Because he has been falling asleep in class, his teacher Emma (Andi Osho) calls Rebecca to the school. Sophie has mental illness and depression that has resurfaced, in which she talks to an apparently imaginary "friend." When Martin sees the apparition with his mom, his fear gives him insomnia. Paul's stepdaughter Rebecca (Teresa Palmer) lives alone in an apartment, away from her mother, Sophie (Maria Bello), and brother, Martin (Gabriel Bateman). Paul is later dragged into the darkness and gruesomely killed by the woman. She warns owner Paul (Billy Burke) about the apparition and leaves. Lights out receives an 8/10 on my scale.In a mannequin warehouse, co-worker Esther (Lotta Losten) sees a silhouette of a woman with monstrously long fingers when she turns the lights off, but sees nothing when the lights are on. You want people focused on the plot of the movie and on what's going on, not on the ridiculous amount of gore. This movie isn't very gory or overly grotesque either, it has a minimal amount of blood/gore, and some violent images, but not a whole whole lot, which it good and a wise decision by the filmmakers, because if a scary movie is too gory or overly disturbing, then it can be distracting from the plot. The opening of the film is also very effective in its attempt to be truly scary. Diana and the visuals that make her up are done very well and the horror is real here, it's not cheap or cheesily boring. There are some scenes that may even be somewhat hard to watch because of the utter creepiness. The visuals are good, the darkness and the creepy eeriness effect of a lot of scenes work very well. Every actor did their job beautifully and the characters they portray are well constructed, they are not just surface level, cardboard cut out characters. It offers great thrills and also offers wonderful acting. Lights out really is a great modern horror film.
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