So Diana had a photosensitive skin condition (Xeroderma pigmentosum) that caused her skin to fry like Dracula’s in the sunlight. What’s even more surprising is that the gremlin from the 2013 short, with its ping-pong ball eyes and pointy teeth, created with no budget whatsoever, was scarier. This has become a very generic look and I wasn’t impressed. She seems like something that just crawled out of a well, and even has the same twitchy sort of movements. Basically Diana is just another Sadako/Samara clone from the Ringu/ The Ring movies. I think someone has to start exercising their imagination a bit more. I was also unimpressed by Diana’s appearance. If she can appear and disappear and go through doors and walls and zip around to different places and control the entire city’s power grid, why does light still bother her? I mean, what is Diana anyway? Some projection of Sophie’s subconscious, like the Babadook? A ghost? A demon? If a demon, I don’t understand the way she is both material and immaterial. I suppose they did the best they could to come up with a back story for Diana given the fast turnaround, but still.
What gets added here isn’t very interesting, or credible. Sandberg and starring his wife Lotta Losten (she’s the woman playing with the light switch in the prologue here), you’d know everything you need to know. Actually, if you’d seen the 2013 short of the same name directed by David F. As soon as we see the trick with the light switch and Diana’s appearance/disappearance act we know pretty much everything we need to know and we’re ready to start getting scared. Do we really want to know anything more about these characters and their dysfunctional family? Of course not. Anything they added would just be filler. Let’s face it, there isn’t a lot of story here. I appreciate the fact that Lights Out comes in at 80 minutes.
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