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Title: Lights Out (2016)
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| Complete credited cast: | |||
| Teresa Palmer | ... | Rebecca | |
| Gabriel Bateman | ... | Martin | |
| Alexander DiPersia | ... | Bret | |
| Billy Burke | ... | Paul | |
| Maria Bello | ... | Sophie | |
| Alicia Vela-Bailey | ... | Diana | |
| Andi Osho | ... | Emma | |
| Rolando Boyce | ... | Officer Brian Andrews | |
| Maria Russell | ... | Officer Gomez | |
| Elizabeth Pan | ... | Nurse | |
| Lotta Losten | ... | Esther | |
| Amiah Miller | ... | Young Rebecca | |
| Ava Cantrell | ... | Teen Diana | |
| Emily Alyn Lind | ... | Teen Sophie | |
A man called Paul is working after hours and is murdered by a supernatural entity in the shadow. When his son, the boy Martin, is frightened by the same creature, he sees his mother Sophie talking to an imaginary friend called Diana in the shadow of her room. Martin does not sleep anymore during the night. His older step sister Rebecca who lives alone is summoned by the social assistant. She brings Martin home and recalls her own experience with Diana years ago when she was young. Rebecca and her boyfriend Bret investigate the connection of Sophie with Diana and come up to a scary revelation about their past. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
It wasn't until I checked the credits that I realized this was based off of the short film by David F. Sandberg. I knew the lights off/lights on shadow figure thing seemed familiar. While I really loved the short film, I don't necessarily agree that it needed the full length treatment. I feel like we see this a lot - capitalize off some popular internet thing that, when extended, loses some of what made it special in the first place. The short film was unsettling and creepy as it was; giving it a back story and more detail made it feel cheapened. I'm not a huge fan of "BOO!" gotcha horror movies, though; I come from a generation that was raised on the original Halloween and, for me, that is the apex of subtle, creepy, slow burn etc - everything that makes one get enveloped in a movie. When there are two many jump-atchas, it is jarring and does not make for high replay value (for me, anyway). I thought the mental asylum backstory was so played out; I feel like maybe that trope should be burned alive. We get it. Although that's kind of how I also feel about kids being creepy (or "troubled"), too. There's just so little variation in horror these days. Not all bad, though - I feel like the choice of Teresa Palmer as Maria Bello (Sophie)'s character's daughter was a fantastic choice. I not only enjoyed her performance but I feel she looks the part; she looks like a younger version of her.