The Reel Rejects - LIGHTS OUT (2016) IS FREAKY AS HELL!! MOVIE REVIEW!! First Time Watching!!

Starting point is 00:00:00 This week's video is sponsored by Acorns, the money app that makes it simple and cheap to make small yet significant investments. Let's get right into this lights out. Let's commence. Please. Let me just press some. Oh, you got it. Thank you. Yep. Yep. Just leave it there. Well, we're going to watch the credits. Based on the short film. All right, guys, we just watched. Oh, James, why? produce this cool all right uh well we just watch lights out um special thanks to the fine folks over prepper for making this video possible on youtube they are working so hard over there so we appreciate everything that they are doing thank you thank you incredible job is always prepper thank you so much uh if you are listening on apple or spotify make sure you give us a five star

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Starting point is 00:01:20 So Rejectnationshop.com. It's where you can get all these cool merch gear. Oh, my God. Oh, I thought there was this, that's something going to me. Aaron, how are you feeling after that intense ride we just went on? I'm feeling good. That was a quickie. That was a little 80-minute movie.

Starting point is 00:01:40 Had some really creative ways of showing their threat, showing Diana. I thought the acting was good. And yeah, for someone who came off of YouTube being able to have the opportunity to do a full-length feature film. I thought it was really impressive, the fact that you're able to have this low budget experience that was still narratively effective. The pacing was really good. I thought the way that they showcased the powers or her abilities and the justification for why she is what she is or how she is what she is was very plausible. I like the lead. I like the kid.

Starting point is 00:02:22 I thought it was more for me. I thought it was more entertaining than it was scary. and I think part of that I know I feel like we had like third parts it did get me but I feel like we had a little bit of a different reaction of our viewer experience yeah I don't know I think because I've I've seen other horror movies recently

Starting point is 00:02:40 like like smile and smile too and I think for me I it's always the the drawn out tension of suspense of like for me what scares me is like seeing something or not quite sure that I'm seeing something and like holding on a frame like the rapid

Starting point is 00:02:56 escalation of of tension i feel like this did have tension but i felt like for the most part the scares i kind of saw coming uh so didn't get me as much but um yeah i definitely enjoy the experience and i enjoyed watching it with you i'm i'm really impressed and i'm glad that this was able to launch uh david s sandberg's career and i look forward to seeing what other horror movies he does in the future yeah no that's well uh well said um i'm so i was in a depressed mood coming into this because, again, just all the rain and work, as I mentioned. I'm still depressed, but again, this was entertaining. So from that perspective, I did enjoy the film.

Starting point is 00:03:39 And in regards to, I do agree with you. A lot of stuff did, like, I mean, we were calling out stuff, but I still found it rather entertaining. And yes, a lot of the scares were telegraph, but for someone like me, I'm a novice when it comes to scares. I get scared so easily when it comes to horror films. Aaron has not really watched horror films with me at home. Just to give you-

Starting point is 00:04:05 I don't watch horror movies at home. Yeah, I don't really watch horror movies. Again, the horror movies I usually, just to give you guys background, the horror movies I usually gravitate and watch. I guess you could say Halloween. I mean, Halloween are, the Michael Myers films are horror movies, but the first few times I watch them, I usually just press the mute or the fast forward.

Starting point is 00:04:25 but now that I've seen them I know where the scares come so I'm good but I mean that's not supernatural obviously Freddie Kruger I love those movies and child's play that's more supernatural but again I would say the first couple times I was hit the mute or the fast forward now I knew where it was coming so I wouldn't get scared you know what I mean having a microphone with loud volume it's a little bit more amped up point being is I get scared very easily that's all I'm trying to say so even when something is telegraphed yes but I do agree with your points smile that's that I did react to that a while back. That scared the crap out of me. I still haven't seen the second one. But

Starting point is 00:05:00 I still rather enjoyed this. I like the lore. I like the world building. I thought it was fascinating. I don't know what the budget is. I will look it up at some point within a few minutes of our review here just to see. But I like the creativeness that they were able to do. Some of the shots where she would turn on the light, something would drop, stuff like that. And the way they were able to, when they shot her, she would disappear. And just stuff like that, I thought it was really intuitive and fun to watch. It was really cool. And I do like, again, I did know David Samberg came from a YouTube background. But yeah, this guy really is a very good filmmaker. I really enjoyed the first Shazam. I know Shazam 2 is not very, I think it's not very well regarded. I don't know.

Starting point is 00:05:43 It's all right. Okay. Okay. I haven't seen it. So, but I guess the two things now I've seen of his, I enjoy. I do remember too, like that movie, the first Shazam, it's been a while since I watched. I remember it did have horror aspects. I'm like, yeah, I could see this guy having horror chops, and I didn't know he had made lights out, but I remember that boardroom scene where all the demons started coming. I was like, this really feels horror-esque in the scene. So I was like, now I see this movie came out like a year or two before that.

Starting point is 00:06:09 I was like, or three years, whatever is 2019, I think Shazam was. But I was like, okay, I can see where his horror chops came from, for sure. Now when I rewatch Shazam, whenever that is, like, I'm going to have this in mind. but uh i did like the character of rebecca and i like uh martin i thought he was a very young good actor uh especially too he's going up against some heavyweights i mean you got teresa pomer and you got uh maria bello and those are two really good actors who've been in the business for a very long time and he i thought he did a great job i like the family dynamic i also thought they did a really good job we mentioned it during the reaction um the way they explained how diana

Starting point is 00:06:49 I got her, I mean, first of all, she had a condition, and then the way she got her powers. I thought they used visual narration and exposition in a very smart way for us, the audience, because obviously up to that point, we're like, how does she have these power? What's going on? So I like the way they did the world building in that scene. I thought it was very integral, and I actually bought it in that moment. I thought it serviced the story very well. I also, I had a feeling, too, that she did something about the dad, and I mean, I think that was kind of obvious, you know,

Starting point is 00:07:18 or that he had seen her and ran off. but still um i think i actually really liked her character and made sense why she had abandonment issues and why she was afraid to get emotionally attached uh definitely you know obviously you know she had to deal with diana in the first place her mother was just so completely uh because she was you know with diana uh having to deal with her to make sure she stays away from her kid she was very alone from that she had lost her father um and then again the the the uh sadness and scares that she got from diana as well like she avoided all attachment probably most of her life so uh i really understood and connected with her character from that perspective and i really enjoyed her performance so um i think

Starting point is 00:08:01 the most important thing when it comes to me especially with horror films do i connect with the characters do i resonate with them and i really i did especially with her i also did like you know where it came from with her with the mother with sophy because at first i just thought we were going with just the crazy angle and again there was that at first but everything was to protect her children in the end and i i did appreciate that you know mama mama bear there um and again with what happened i know i kind of called it right before it happened but it didn't matter because i was so invested and there was emotional depth there that i didn't see coming originally with i just thought they were going to go the crazy angle so i did like the subversion of expectations um that

Starting point is 00:08:42 happened up to there with in regards to the boyfriend and with the mother uh up to that point so I did enjoy the performances. I liked the characters. Like you mentioned, it was a very quick film. Paced pretty well. Yeah. I enjoyed it.

Starting point is 00:08:58 Again, it kind of reminded me a little bit, and you guys let me know if you disagree, of darkness falls. I'd be interested to see if you want to see or if you guys want him to react to that one. I would like that. Some of the rules apply. I mean,

Starting point is 00:09:10 it's pretty much the same thing. She can only attack in dark. It's not, it's not spoiling anything. But, I mean, it's darkness falls. she can only attack you in the dark so kind of remind me of that they have different kinds of powers but both supernatural forces but uh yeah i think i like this one better though than darkness falls um okay but yeah this uh this definitely will make me not want to turn off the lights

Starting point is 00:09:31 anytime soon although i'm sure i will tonight uh but i will definitely be thinking about this when i do uh preferably more about her because she's a very uh attractive woman but um yeah no i again i enjoyed this also too i one other thing before uh we continue continue on. I really enjoyed how adaptable and intuitive some of the characters were like Brett, for instance. I know we just mentioned how they subverted our expectations. We expected him to

Starting point is 00:09:56 pass away in the film. I like in that moment we were we expecting him to pass. Again, I know people are like, dude, it was such an obvious decision to turn on the lights of the car right there. Probably. But when you're being attacked like that, like all logic. Yeah, it was. No, I'm just saying

Starting point is 00:10:12 someone might say that. I don't know. I don't think somebody will be. Yeah, but my point being is like it is quick thinking and like a lot of times when you're being attacked like then in the moment logic just goes out the door so for him to just like like you said just quick think like then and to uh just adapt to the moment and do that was like yes that made me so happy i know for a second we're like where where's he going but i had a feeling he was going to come back i just thought he was going to like crash through the house but either way that was great and uh i liked his character a lot and i know i had that one moment where i was mad that he was questioning i thought he was just

Starting point is 00:10:45 let me just explain really quick um i thought he was just being selfish so that he could stay there i know that wasn't the question he asked he's like are you doing this more for yourself or to hurt your mother i think that was the question something like that but i i really thought he was coming from a place of of i want to i just want you to myself kind of thing i thought that's at first where he was coming oh no he said do like are you doing this for your brother or to yeah are you doing this for your brother or to punish your mom yes i understood but i think uh originally i thought that's where he was coming from As the film kept on progress, I'm like, okay, no, he actually does care about this woman. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:11:19 So I just needed to give it. Yeah, no, no, no. I just needed to give him more time. I made a very judgmental, Colin. I'm holding myself accountable. I was wrong. He's a great guy. I'm glad that's the guy she found.

Starting point is 00:11:31 So do you have any other thoughts before? Yeah. I have a few. I think that for me, I think some of, though I, though I, recognize and like the creative choice in editing to display the powers that she had i felt like some of the tension for me because i feel like a lot of a lot of what makes horror is like your own mind's anticipation of whatever the thing is going to be in combination with the sound so i feel like for me once she was actually shown we got to see what she looked like so

Starting point is 00:12:12 that tension was deflated for me but i'll say that the makeup job was really cool i thought she looked really gray i figure in a movie like this and a concept like that you're gonna want to be able to show whatever that creature or that person is um also didn't i don't think they really went back to what happened we know what happened to the dad but we never really saw the characters feel affected by that experience hey guys i've hit a point in life where i realize time flies and it If you're not intentional about your future, it sneaks up on you. And my whole life, the advice was always, start investing when you're young. Start investing when you're young.

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Starting point is 00:14:12 View important disclosures atacorn. Acorns.com slash reex. For me, Acorns, mighty oaks do grow. Thank you again, Acorns, for everything that you do. I was thinking that, too. I was like, I, they had a line where they talked about it with the mom about the dad. I'm like, I can't, I don't feel like the dad is gone now because it doesn't feel like it. From their, like, I don't feel it from the characters.

Starting point is 00:14:32 Like, I can't, I get it, Martin's a young kid. So, you know, but still, like, this is his father. I was her husband. Yeah, and it's her, I know, but she's, she's a little loon. Yeah, so, but still, like. they had one conversation about it but I did think that also one other thing too I was mentioning it at the end of the reaction I know the movie had to end but they were in an ambulance and I get it they were all wounded the cops say to them like okay we got uh your

Starting point is 00:14:58 mother's passed away here gunshot wound these two of these cops are gone you guys are or at least the you know Rebecca is a suspect like so I'm just curious what happened or they just go no everything's fine hit let's patch you guys up you're in the ambulance all good we have three dead people with no explanation somebody's gonna have to i'm just curious i hope obviously we as the audience know what happened so i'm hoping nothing happens to them i'm hoping like everything's good and the kid gets to live with them maybe they'll try to pin it on the mom like oh yeah the mom attack them and then off herself yeah because uh you know i don't know how it's going to go down if you explain

Starting point is 00:15:36 who diana is and what happened i don't know if they're going to believe that um so yeah i'm just I don't know if they needed to include that scene, but just for me, you, and the audience, I'm curious what would have happened. Yeah, likewise. I do agree with you. When we do see the character, it kind of does get rid of the suspense.

Starting point is 00:15:56 I do like the whole Alfred Hitchcockian approach of not really, you kind of just see a little bit of the shadow, and that just makes it scary because now your mind is playing things. Yeah, you know, being creative in your own mind, I do agree with you there. Do you think it would have been a good idea, if they would have just saved that maybe to like the last five minutes of

Starting point is 00:16:14 with Diana potentially because the only part of the part that got me the most was when the kids walked down the hallway with the candle and you can barely tell like is she there or she's not there then like once she's close to the frame you see her like a move from the shadow yeah and then over you like I like

Starting point is 00:16:30 horror best when it's playing on your senses yes and I feel like if you like the stuff with the footsteps or like nail scratching or under the That was my favorite jump scare under the bed. Yeah, I feel like if you're playing with these other things, I feel like it makes the experience more enriching. But it did use some of that, but I would like them to have utilized more of that.

Starting point is 00:16:53 But yeah, I think for what the movie is, it does a great job with what it presents. And yeah, whatever this director does in the future, I'm game. I'm down to see how he evolves as a horror director. Yeah, no, he did a good job because like, yeah, just for instance, that under the bed, that was my favorite jump scare because like in my mind I'm thinking of what she besides grabbing I'm like what she is doing under that bed you know what I mean and like my mind's just playing like a bunch of different scenarios so also you too you save budget wise as well I was a little confused about how she travels to different places because she went to his the office he was at

Starting point is 00:17:29 and then but she's supposed to be tied to the mom that she also went to the girl's apartment and I was like how what how does this work is it the mom's connection or is it connected to them that part was not very clear to me unless we're talking missed something but i feel you but with supernatural forces i don't even try to play the plausible how does that work it's just it so she's just the mom is just chilling when diana is at the the daughter's apartment she's like oh okay i'm just by myself you got me there i don't know okay uh really quick before we get into trivia uh rotten tomatoes let's do one score at time and i'll tell you okay rotten tomatoes uh critics what do you think I'm going to guess 72.

Starting point is 00:18:11 75. That's close. Audience. 84. 61. Mm. By the way, the length of time for this film is one hour and 17 minutes, according to Rotten Tomatoes. Man, it's a shorty.

Starting point is 00:18:25 I mean, yeah. I think it barely qualifies his feature length. Yeah, and really quick, I just want to see what the budget was for this film. What do you think the budget was for this film? I'm just curious. $4 million. You are insane. 4.9 million.

Starting point is 00:18:39 Wow, it was close. You were. Worldwide box office, domestic and international put together worldwide. For $5 million budget, I'm going to guess $80 million. 149. Wow, we'll say $1.50. You didn't get a sequel? I don't.

Starting point is 00:18:58 Let me just type in lights out too. I don't believe so. And then we'll get the trivia here. Lights out to... um no right i think it just says fan made okay unless the Warner bro i don't think so no probably not lights out have a sequel set to hit theaters in 2025 i don't know is it there's a cast it looks like it looks like there might hold on hold on guys there might be a lights out too hold on we're discovering this in real time real time no i don't think it's real dude

Starting point is 00:19:37 no maybe not no okay well you guys let us know if you want lights out too but I'll ask that again at the end let's do really quick trivia okay

Starting point is 00:19:53 David F Sandberg decided to focus on practical effects and avoid as much CGI as possible that makes sense especially with the budget being as low as it was that makes full of sense made back its entire production budget on its opening day at the box office

Starting point is 00:20:08 despite being released in the same weekend as Star Trek Beyond and Ice Age Collision course. Collision course. Collision course, yes. Wow. Awesome. Crazy. Director David F. Sandberg aimed to use as much authentic lighting for the film as possible. Some scenes were

Starting point is 00:20:26 only lit by candlelights or fluorescent tubes. Very impressive. The mannequins in the basement were not brought in for the movie. They were already placed there by the owner of house creepy fun teresa palmer had hadn't seen the design of diana before filming until she filmed her first her first scene with her on a completely dark set there was an intentional directorial choice so to provoke a genuine reaction of fear when seeing the design alicia vela bailey the

Starting point is 00:20:56 woman in the costume was previously palmer stunt double on the film i am number four in 2011 it would have ruined the effect had she seen her prior as she would have recognized her therefore losing the authentic expression of fear. Smart. I will do one more and then two spoilers and we'll call it. Diana was created with a photorealistic prosthetic suit that could also function as a green screen suit so as to remove her from the screen when the lights came on.

Starting point is 00:21:23 The designer of the suit previously created the title character of Mrs. Doubtfire. Love that. Oh, nice. Love that movie. I've seen it. Oh, you've not? Never seen a guy. Oh, that'd be a great reaction.

Starting point is 00:21:34 We've got to get Aaron on that. Love to. um okay i'll just do this is a really long one so let's just keep it at one spoiler okay director david f sandberg revealed that in the original test screenings there was an additional finale after sophie's death via gunshot i can't say that word because we're not allowed to on youtube via gunshot there was an additional finale after so uh yeah sometime after the ambulance scene and Rebecca learns that she had been made Martin's foster parent. That night, Rebecca wakes up and finds Brett missing and Martin talking to Diana again.

Starting point is 00:22:11 Oh, no. Martin says that Diana can now speak with Sophie. Excuse me. Martin says that Diana can now speak with Sophie and wants to take him away to protect him. Rebecca refuses and goes looking for Brett. She finds him knocked out in the bathroom and is suddenly attacked by Diana. Rebecca then reveals that she was lured into her, into a. room fitted with a very strong lights which she activates completely oblitering diana rebecca

Starting point is 00:22:38 sure's martin that if diana ever returns they can beat her again as they are fighters after a negative reaction the scene was removed and is included as a supplement feature on the blue ray and DVD oh interesting i don't know how do you feel about that scene i'm like who they were ended it the way they did yeah i mean that extra yeah anyways um interesting to read about at least that they filmed shot in the i mean obviously when they had several negative reactions like we'll just make this ending instead but any final thoughts um no i had a good time and yeah look forward to seeing what the director does next yeah likewise uh anyways guys if you stayed with us this long and you kept the lights on we appreciate it but don't be rude to diana uh anyways thank you so much um let us know in

Starting point is 00:23:25 the comments what you think of lights out are there other horror movies you want me to suffer through and Aaron as well to react to other members of the team. We'd love to hear your thoughts in the comments below. And yeah, take care. See you later.

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The Reel Rejects - LIGHTS OUT (2016) IS FREAKY AS HELL!! MOVIE REVIEW!! First Time Watching!!

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