Lights Out Dvd

Lights Out is a 2016 American supernatural horror film directed by David F. Sandberg in his directorial debut, produced by Lawrence Grey, James Wan, and Eric Heisserer and written by Heisserer. It stars Teresa Palmer, Gabriel Bateman, Billy Burke, and Maria Bello. It is based on Sandberg’s 2013 short film of the same name and features Lotta Losten, who starred in the short.

After the short film’s success, Sandberg announced a film adaptation based on his short film. Principal photography for the film began in June 2015 in Los Angeles. Filming wrapped on August 5, 2015.

The film had its world premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival on June 8, 2016, and was released in the United States and Canada on July 22, 2016, by Warner Bros. The film received positive reviews from critics, with many praising the direction, screenplay, acting, photography and musical score, and grossed $148 million against a budget of $4.9 million.

Plot

In a textile factory during closing hours, an employee named Esther encounters a silhouette of a strange woman with claw-like hands when the lights are off, but cannot see it when the lights are on. After she leaves, her boss Paul encounters the woman and is killed.

Paul’s stepdaughter Rebecca is called into the school nurse’s office because of her brother, Martin. Rebecca and Martin are half-siblings, sharing the same mother, Sophie. The nurse was unable to get in touch with Sophie to inform her that Martin has been falling asleep in class lately. A Child Protective Services agent questions Rebecca about Martin’s living conditions. Rebecca tells the official that Sophie has depression and is taking antidepressants.

Martin tells his sister that their mother has been talking to a woman named “Diana”. Rebecca assures him that Diana is not real, and that she had also heard their mother talk to the imaginary girl when she was a child. Rebecca gets into an argument with Sophie when she realizes her mother is not taking her medication, so she takes Martin to her apartment. That night, Rebecca is woken by the same shadowed woman that killed Paul. She narrowly escapes an attack when she turns the lights on, making the woman disappear. The next morning, she notices the name “Diana” has been scratched into her floor, along with a scratch drawing of a stick figure. She remembers finding the same name and drawing as a child, and realizes Diana is real.

Rebecca finds a box of medical records and research in Paul’s office. His findings reveal that her mother was admitted to a mental hospital as a child. While there, she befriended a young patient named Diana. Diana suffered from a severe skin condition that meant she could not go out in sunlight, and was accidentally killed by the hospital staff when they tried an experimental surgery on her under intense light. It was believed that she was evil and was able to “get into people’s heads”. Diana’s father committed suicide after Diana got into his head and influenced him to kill himself.

Rebecca, her boyfriend Bret, and Martin stage an intervention with Sophie about how Sophie is letting Diana haunt them. Sophie becomes irate but secretly asks Rebecca for help, as Diana will not let Sophie go. The group stays the night at Sophie’s, intending to get her help in the morning. To avoid an attack from Diana during the night, they rig the house to be as brightly lit as possible. This proves useless when Diana cuts the power to the neighborhood. She traps Rebecca and Martin in the basement and attempts to kill Bret. Bret escapes and seemingly abandons the others. In the basement, Rebecca finds a black light; when she clearly sees Diana with it, she realizes it is not powerful enough to harm her but she does not disappear in it and can get severely hurt if a bright light shines on her while the black light is still shining on her.

Bret returns with two police officers. The officers free Martin and Rebecca from the basement. The officers also see the shadow of Diana, but she kills them. Rebecca and Martin go out, but Martin insists on getting their mom out as well. She sends Martin and Bret out and goes back for her mother. As she climbs the stairs, Diana tells Rebecca that she killed Rebecca’s father years ago. As Diana prepares to kill her, Sophie appears with a gun from one of the dead officers. Sophie has realized she is the tether for Diana to exist in the real world, and sacrifices herself to save Rebecca. As her body falls, Diana vanishes.

After the long night, Bret comforts Martin and Rebecca in an ambulance outside the house, assuring them that Diana is truly gone.

Cast

Teresa Palmer as Rebecca Wells
Amiah Miller as Young Rebecca
Gabriel Bateman as Martin Wells, Rebecca’s half-brother
Alexander DiPersia as Bret, Rebecca’s boyfriend
Maria Bello as Sophie Lloyd-Wells, Rebecca and Martin’s mother
Emily Alyn Lind as Teen Sophie
Alicia Vela-Bailey as Diana Walter, a malevolent spirit and Sophie’s friend
Ava Cantrell as Teen Diana
Billy Burke as Paul, Rebecca’s step-father
Andi Osho as Emma Glover, a social worker
Rolando Boyce as Officer Brian Andrews
Maria Russell as Officer Gomez
Elizabeth Pan as Nurse
Jeremiah Sird as Homer
Lotta Losten as Esther, Paul’s assistant