Don't Turn Out the Lights
- 2023
- 1h 49m
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3.6/10
1.7K
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A group of friends embark on a road trip to a music festival, oblivious to the supernatural horrors that await them along the way.A group of friends embark on a road trip to a music festival, oblivious to the supernatural horrors that await them along the way.A group of friends embark on a road trip to a music festival, oblivious to the supernatural horrors that await them along the way.
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Couldn't get past the constant obnoxious yelling and the insincere acting. Turned it off after 25 min.
It seems like they tried to do the typical group of friends go off to celebrate a weekend and get killed one by one but the characters are so loud and obnoxious that we just couldn't watch anymore.
Also the music is too loud and obnoxious and just doesn't fit with certain scenes.
I really wish we could've gotten through the movie because the movie cover and trailer seemed like it would've been really good.
I would've liked to see the characters slow down, be sincere and take the role seriously (loud and aggressive does not mean you're doing it right).
It seems like they tried to do the typical group of friends go off to celebrate a weekend and get killed one by one but the characters are so loud and obnoxious that we just couldn't watch anymore.
Also the music is too loud and obnoxious and just doesn't fit with certain scenes.
I really wish we could've gotten through the movie because the movie cover and trailer seemed like it would've been really good.
I would've liked to see the characters slow down, be sincere and take the role seriously (loud and aggressive does not mean you're doing it right).
I have never encountered a cast of such untalented and quite frankly terrible actors in all my years of film watching. Not one of these actors is even remotely tolerable to watch; they should stick to flipping burgers at the roadside diner they were recruited from.
The camera work and editing are barely a notch up in talent from the horrendous acting. I would guess this whole mess was some high school film project, but high school film students generally have at least an ounce of talent and creativity.
How this abomination made it off the cutting floor is beyond imagination. Don't rot your mind by watching this disaster.
The camera work and editing are barely a notch up in talent from the horrendous acting. I would guess this whole mess was some high school film project, but high school film students generally have at least an ounce of talent and creativity.
How this abomination made it off the cutting floor is beyond imagination. Don't rot your mind by watching this disaster.
I wasn't expecting much when I decided to watch this movie: just wanted a watchable standard horror. The movie starts off typical for a horror movie. A group of friends get together to attend some festival, they get lost, and then strange events occur when they're unexplainably stranded in the middle of nowhere . The concept seemed fine at first, so I figured I'd be in for at least a decent 90 mins
The movie is unwatchable though. The acting from everyone is awful and cringy. And the characters are not likable. Their jokes (eg the "Screw Marry Kill" game) and behavior (eg drugs) make them appear more annoying than charming. The only likable character is the ex-Marine, who unfortunately doesn't stay long. Instead, we get stuck with the girls who keep screaming and arguing like divas to the point where I, as a viewer, couldn't get behind them and root for them. When strange events start happening, the ladies go on and on about "hey, maybe this is all a prank" to the point where I wondered why they would make our protagonists so dumb.
The movie is unwatchable though. The acting from everyone is awful and cringy. And the characters are not likable. Their jokes (eg the "Screw Marry Kill" game) and behavior (eg drugs) make them appear more annoying than charming. The only likable character is the ex-Marine, who unfortunately doesn't stay long. Instead, we get stuck with the girls who keep screaming and arguing like divas to the point where I, as a viewer, couldn't get behind them and root for them. When strange events start happening, the ladies go on and on about "hey, maybe this is all a prank" to the point where I wondered why they would make our protagonists so dumb.
A group of obnoxious absolute idiots set out on a road trip in which nothing interesting happens for the first hour. A gaggle of bad actors pretending to be college students screech inauthentic pablum at each other, run afoul of some cartoon hillbillies, and generally make the stupidest possible decisions in any given situation. The characters are college students as college students would be envisaged and written by a 50-year-virgin who had gone to college but who never once interacted socially with anyone. Anyway, some ridiculous and not-at-all-scary shenanigans happen and yada, yada, yada I just kept hoping every character would die already so this steaming puddle of loose donkey excrement would finally end.
This could have been so much better. It's your typical group of friends on a trip storyline but the premise and what happens to them, had it been handled properly, could have created a genuinely creepy story.
Unfortunately the cast of characters are such a loud, brash, dumb and unlikeable bunch of stereotypes that you just don't care what happens to them.
As for the amount of screaming and shouting, it was incessant. 80% of the film sounded like white noise because of it. Someone dragging their nails down a blackboard would have been more pleasant. As each person was, predictably, picked off it was a relief because there was one less unlikeable person screaming.
Unfortunately the cast of characters are such a loud, brash, dumb and unlikeable bunch of stereotypes that you just don't care what happens to them.
As for the amount of screaming and shouting, it was incessant. 80% of the film sounded like white noise because of it. Someone dragging their nails down a blackboard would have been more pleasant. As each person was, predictably, picked off it was a relief because there was one less unlikeable person screaming.
Did you know
- TriviaTwo of the male leads are named Jason and Michael bar tribute to slasher icons Jason Voorhees & Michael Meyers
- Crazy creditsDuring the credits, there is a clip shown of someone making a sandwich and switching TV channels. This is shown for almost the entire length of the end credits.
- ConnectionsReferences Lord of the Flies (1990)
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- $26,254
- Runtime1 hour 49 minutes
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- 2.39:1
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