![]() Her children are battling their own demons. Gossip columns speculate about her future. While she tries to salvage Yvette’s life, Kate’s own continues to unravel. Kate knows that Yvette’s marriage wasn’t exactly stable, but her friend is no murderer, and Kate is determined to prove it with her own investigation. Then NBA superstar Kurt Robbins is killed, and the prime suspect in his murder is none other than his wife…and Kate’s best friend. I don’t think you’ll be disappointed that you did.In this exciting debut novel comes a fast-paced thriller that follows a sports reporter’s journey off the court…and into a world of murder and deception.įormer Olympic athlete and current semi-disgraced sports reporter Kate Green isn’t sure how much more tumultuous her life can get. If we don’t, we’ll just get Saw XXI and on and on. ![]() If we want better horror movies, and if we want the genre taken more seriously, then we have to put our dollars behind our desires. I watch it, I read it, I play it, and I write it. Horror is a genre that has always been looked down on by our supposed betters, and that kills me because it’s probably my favorite genre. Hopefully Sandberg will have a bright career (pardon the pun), and we’ll all be rewarded with plenty of scares.įolks, if you like horror movies, please go see this. Sandberg’s next film will be Annabelle 2, and I hope he’s able to bring this same level of skill to it, because I thought the first Annabelle was lacking in many ways. Lights Out is a tightly paced hour and twenty-one minutes with very little fat or exposition on the bone. Lights Out is Sandberg’s first feature film, which is shocking considering how well executed the film was, but he has a lengthy list of short horror films to his credit, so there’s definitely something to be said for honing your craft in the minors before attempting to hit a home run out of Yankee Stadium. What follows is a story with a twist here and there but doesn’t overdo it, some great scares, and tension that builds and builds until an ending hits that I didn’t see coming. When Martin, who’s her half-brother, reaches out to her for help mother, Rebecca finds that their mother’s mental condition has deteriorated beyond anything she’s ever seen before. We then meet Rebecca, played by our star Teresa Palmer, a young woman living on her own and determined to keep it that way, despite the gentle insistence of her kinda-not really-sorta boyfriend Bret, whom Alexander DiPersia portrayed with none of the usual male ego overdrive you’d find in this kind of movie. Soon after Paul gathers his things and leaves, but this is a horror film, so I’m sure you know how well that goes. Paul says he will, but he has to finish something first. Martin is worried about his mother (Maria Bello) and wants his father to come home. Paul (Billy Burke) is in an office inside a warehouse of some sort, and he gets a video call from his son, Martin, played very well by young Gabriel Bateman. All in all, it was a good time in the theater. There was little in the way of cheap tricks and jump scares. ![]() The story was affective and didn’t need tons of exposition to have it make sense. Fortunately, Lights Out was satisfying on just about every level. Not because it’s a horror film, but because lately so few horror films have been worth seeing, and I didn’t want to be disappointed yet again. To be honest, I was nervous about seeing this movie. Horrors lie within us and without, and it’s that theme that lies at the heart of David F. But, in the realm of horror movies, it’s the beasts and demons that live in the dark that send us screaming, the monsters that lurk in the shadows with black clicking claws and bloody fangs. Humankind’s greatest fear has always been, and will always be, the darkness, because within the shadows are where our imaginations are let loose, and the horrors that frighten us most often come from within. “It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.”
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