Don’t Turn Out The Lights Review
Don’t Turn Out The Lights follows a group overzealous best friends, celebrating a birthday on a weekend road trip in a rundown RV heading towards a music festival, things get nasty after taking a wrong turn into zero-phone-reception wilderness.
Partaking in an array of indulgence preparing for their party, a change of route at a fork in the road triggers weird paranormal activity as visions appear inside and out of the now stationary vehicle.
The journey is the destination, as one-by-one these friends in peril start with disappearing or seemingly spontaneously combust, which is fine because certain individuals in the group are annoying.
The fog machine certainly gets a workout creating an isolated atmosphere, sound design is sharp, extra enhanced by regulated spindly music.
If you like movies wrapped up into a conclusion, forget it, the characters are fully aware of the unexplainable events happening to them, us as an audience are given options to ponder. Twilight Zone, or Black Mirror is a good comparison.
Preeminent star Bella DeLong as Carrie, is a reactive, interesting lead standing out from in a group of relative unknowns. Cool, strong Amber Janea as Sarah and energetic Crystal lake Evans, of underseen TV series, Hightown, also good.. Distractingly, the male cast are all underwritten or completely generic.
With a mostly comedy background, director Andy Finkman throws in occasional lighter moments such as, a vibrator assisted fist-fight at a petrol station and typical stoner dialogue that both fall flat, the creepy aspects that hit best.
Give it a chance, bare with a mediocre opening stanza; also disregard the misleading title that has almost nothing to do with plot impact within this, Don’t Turn Out The Lights is an OK indie chiller.
★★
Out now on Digital in the UK and Ireland | Horror | 101 Films | Bella DeLong, Curtis Brockelman, Amber Janea, George Schroeder, Crystal Lake Evans |Dir.Andy Fickman /15
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