{"id":126,"date":"2016-08-22T19:05:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T19:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/?p=126"},"modified":"2016-08-22T19:32:31","modified_gmt":"2016-08-22T19:32:31","slug":"lights-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/horror\/lights-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Lights Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6LiKKFZyhRU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For each of us, not all genres are created equal. Horror is one of my preferred genres, so I&#8217;ll happily watch a formulaic horror with a 5.1 IMDB rating, whereas I&#8217;ll criticise a rom com with the same score for being cliched. And a musical had better be brining 8.5 to the table before I&#8217;ll even consider it. So when I say Lights Out is a good film, it&#8217;s with this bias.<\/p>\n<p>It isn&#8217;t particularly original &#8211; it tells of a family haunted by a malevolent spirit. As the title suggests, the spirit &#8211; Diana &#8211; can only exist in the dark. This gives plenty of room for creepy scenes, jump shocks, tense search scenes. The jump shock is a hackneyed technique, but that doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s not still effective. It is over-used, and films without much else going for them rely on it. Lights Out is neatly done, tightly scripted &#8211; it has a lot of resemblance to 2013&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2388715\/?ref_=nv_sr_1\">Oculus<\/a> (although that featured haunted mirrors, so wins). <\/p>\n<p>As with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2321549\/?ref_=nv_sr_1\">The Babadook<\/a>, it could be read as an allegory for depression, but it doesn&#8217;t forget it&#8217;s a horror film first. It doesn&#8217;t have any of the atmosphere, or originality of The Witch, say, but it&#8217;s a scary 90 minutes, and yeah, maybe I left the landing light on that night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For each of us, not all genres are created equal. Horror is one of my preferred genres, so I&#8217;ll happily watch a formulaic horror with a 5.1 IMDB rating, whereas I&#8217;ll criticise a rom com with the same score for being cliched. And a musical had better be brining 8.5&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/horror\/lights-out\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions\/128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}