"Lights Out" starts promisingly, wasting no time introducing ghoul, Diana, and demonstrating her dislike of lights in a grab-your-attention opening scene, then the whole movie becomes mired in protracted exposition about the ghoul's raison d'etre which should be, simply, "to generate inventive light-dark horror movie thrills and chills" but instead involves a leaden and unconvincing lore about the ghoul's and a mentally ill mother's psychological co-dependency.
★☆☆☆☆
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