Lights Out SPOILER-FREE Review

I have never been a big fan of horror movies. I find they aren't well acted, are poorly written and rely on cheap scares. I liked The Conjuring movies, mainly because they develop and build their characters, and use legitimate scares to rope in the audience. From the first trailers, I thought that Lights Out would end up being the former. The gimmick was interesting enough: when the lights are on, a spirit appears. When they're off, she is gone. The idea captured the trailer, but the rest of it fell into the generic horror film trap. But with all the critical praise surrounding the movie, I became hopeful that maybe it could be more than the trash we normally get. So I went into Lights Out very hopeful. In the end, Lights Out doesn't have the best horror I've ever seen, but it's development of characters and good writing allows it to stand out in the genre. Rebecca ( Teresa Palmer ) visits her crazy estranged mother ( Maria Bello ), when her younger ste