Spoiler Free Review: Lights Out

     Lights Out, starring Teresa Palmer and Gabriel Bateman is about a torn family that faces a monster that's only dangerous when the...well you can guess when.
     This stereotypical horror has all the elements of every other horror and by that I mean JUMP SCARE CENTRAL. Most movies have two constants that they live on: The first thing is they have a sequence like 'no scare scene, no scare scene, JUMP SCARE. No scare scene, n scare scene, JUMP SCARE.' And they follow these throughout the movie or sometimes series. The other thing they do is create their own rules (which I refer to as a the movie's universe)
     Getting back to this movie, I'm gonna review this movie with no spoilers and start with the bad stuff about it.
     The bad: The story line was average at best and the acting by most of the supporting cast was pretty terrible. The boyfriend, known as 'boyfriend' basically, was barely there besides a few moments where he was not unfunny, but not quite funny. They may have suffered from the story being so weak as there wasn't much to really work for. Eric Heisserer and David F. Sanberg were the writing staff on this horror and they made sure to hit every mark while not really pushing any barriers or risk not making the quintessential 'horror'
     The good: Teresa Palmer and Gabriel Bateman were convincing and entertaining (not necessarily good actors but entertaining can be good,..here it counts as good) The strong female lead is usually portrayed in an awful and annoying way, Teresa Palmer did a great job of being strong without needing to put men down. She did have a back story that caused her to push her character's counter part, played by Alexander DiPersia. And another big positive is this film gets fans to that eerie, cringey feeling and nearly pushes us over that freaked out edge multiple times very quickly. While they filled this movie with their needed jump scares on their marks, they did create that uneasy fear feeling that many similar movies try for but fail miserably (Ouija, Annabelle, Krampus and Mama just to name a few recent ones)
     So in seeing this feature, I went into it ready for absolute garbage and was pleasantly surprised to say it wasn't complete fiery trash. Out of 22, I give this a ten. I would say if you are a die hard horror fan who loves anything that gives you a jump and contains very little gore, then you should find a discounted showtime, like I did, and go see it. If however, you want a movie with substance or great acting/writing I would have to advise you to continue to wait for James Wan to do more than produce...sit this one out.
     Thanks for reading and make sure you don't turn the...
                                                                                  ...lights out.

My Idea for a Ghostbusters movie that wouldwork better than the current dumpster fire of a film

Ghostbusters 3

     A woman standing by a news stand looking through magazines sees a newspaper with 4 men on the front page. They're holding proton packs and she picks it up, "Margie. Hey, Margie, ar ethese the guys you were talking about?" Her friend grabs it and responds, ""Yeah, those guys were ca-raazy! They took these...proto bags and like, trapped ghosts.
" Ghosts aren't real, these guys must have made it all up or something."
They continue talking and a man walks by, smirking. He walks a block away, surveying the street and comes to a building. He casually puts his hand on what looks like a brick wall but a thin slit opens up just enough for him to calmly walk through and it closes just as quick as it opened.
"PJ, where'd you go?" said a woman in the secret looking room. He smiles and holds up that same newspaper. The woman gives him an annoyed look and spins back around in her swivel chair, "Ya know you can't be that cool for too long. It's not good for your health." PJ then reveals  a container from his back pack. It's smoking and square, he drops it in front of the woman, "Casey, me? Healthy? I'm fit as..."
she cuts him off, "If you say a fiddle, you're not gonna be healthy for much longer." He smiles at her and she starts hitting keys on the computer in front of her.
The smoking box was slowly pulled toward a containment unit in the wall, magnetically aligned and guided into a drawer. Another man walks in and sits next to Casey and asks PJ, "Did you get the specimen? What happened?" PJ was about to answer but before he could get one word out the man cut him off, "And I don't want to hear 'It was me vs a thousand strong monsters and I took them all out in a one-on-one battle...blah blah blah' I want exactly what happened.
PJ told him happened at the donut shop:
     "I walked in and saw three people, one cashier and two customers. They were terrified, I looked behind them and saw what looked like a sorta man-ish thing on a horse. It was above the exit doorway and was guarding them. I first tried to talk to it and...well, that didn't go the way I was hoping. I think he had a grudge against white..." The man interrupted, "Save the jokes please. Just stick to what happened."
"Ok ok. So then he kinda...well, he tossed me across the room. Luckily I was holding that and was able to get it close enough to grab him." He pointed to the ghost trap.
The man responds, "Was everyone alright?" he asked, putting his hand on PJ's shoulder. He nodded and the man said, "Your dad would be proud, you're doing a good job." PJ stopped him and got serious, "My dad...he may have been one of 'the first Ghostbusters' but he was not NEARLY as good as I am." He then took a breath and smirked, "Besides, I do this to keep fit...right, Casey?" she responded as she walked out of the room, "Way to be humble."
The man picked up a phone and dialed, "Hello? This is district 4125. Yeah, Peter Jr just caught a specimen. Yes, we have it in our containment unit. He described it as a Midwestern apparition. Thank you. Yes, I'll be writing the report momentarily. Thank you, good bye." He then walked to his office and as he shut the double doors, the Ghostbusters emblem came together and the ghost changes it to put up three fingers.

     Ok, that's my current idea for the intro to a Ghostbusters movie I think we can all get behind...at least a lot better than the 2016 self righteous masterpiece of...well, you know.

     Let me know what you think, imagine seeing exactly this as a commercial. What would you think? Leave a comment and share this. Thank you very much.