That was an excellent one.

A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

this movie was an absolute Waste of time.If you want a pointless comedy, Watch this....No good scares.. Jumping from pointless scene, to pointless scene.. Followed by pointless paragraphs.. Followed by sucky actors and really, really, REALLY bad special effects..On the plus side.. This movie successfully captured the look of the 70's quite good.. But that's about it.. If you expect to live long, you can Watch this movie and not feel like you've wasted an hour and a half on it, but if you, like me, think life is short and actually worth living.. DON'T WATCH IT..And how did it get nominated for.. Well, anything? And the rating? 5.4 stars? WTF! People who rated this anything other than a minus 1000, can go Watch F.R.I.E.N.D.S and get at least as many scares, if even more..Goodnight people, I'll go have an actual life now.. DO NOT WATCH THIS!... Can't stress that enough...!

When The Lights Went Out is a film that, whilst containing the occasional surprising element, is nothing that stands out or is otherwise new. The film is full of tropes and unsurprising scares that won't differ to the films most people have already seen. However, the actors carry the film nicely, and do an excellent job of making you feel sorry for Sally, the child and focal point of the spirit terrorising the family. The charming friendship that strikes up between Sally and Lucy is another redeeming factor of the film, and both actresses are excellent at showing the viewers their solidarity against the isolation and bullying of their classmates at school. Praise must also be given for costume and set designers. The film very accurately portrayed the 1970s and was full of little details for those around in the era to marvel at- some would argue that the reminiscence of the st design is more interesting than the actual hauntings taking place through the film.The film's declarative of it being 'based on a true story' is, for me, the only slightly chilling element of the movie, and contains very obvious jump-scares and surprises that could be predicted a good few minutes before their occurrence.All in all, I would certainly recommend this film if you want to branch out to lesser known, independent paranormal movies, but don't expect anything special, or anything you haven't already seen before. It has very little entertainment and almost no scare value, but is better than some well-known paranormal movies currently around.

Okay, take Poltergeist and The Exorcist then move them to seventies Yorkshire and you basically have When the Lights Went Out. It's supposedly based on a true story (but aren't they always?) about a family who encounter a particularly nasty spook in their house.This is a film where I can find many positives and only one negative. The good things are the setting (if you ignore the occasional Sky Digital dish in the background). They do a good job of portraying seventies England. The actors are also all believable. The film centres quite a bit on two young girls. Kids in films (and especially horror films) tend to be either highly annoying, or just totally unlikeable. However, I found these two girls quite endearing and hopefully they will have a long acting career ahead of them. Also, it's quite creepy. The scares are sometimes predictable, but they're there nonetheless.About the only thing that's negative is that - as far as story-telling goes - is that there's nothing new here. Hollywood has been churning out these sorts of films for years and all you have here is a British (period) version of one of those types.If you're in the mood for an easy-going British horror flick, definitely give this one a go. Just don't expect anything revolutionary.

A family moves into a new house only to discover that a spirit lives there and wants to hurt their daughter. Sally is the first to witness the entity behavior but her parents don't believe her not even when a friend of Jenny said that she seen someone in the house they don't believe until she takes part one day at the manifestation and begins to figure out that her daughter doesn't have visions. Now they must seek help from a priest in order to perform an exorcism on the house so they could make the spirit to leave from their residence.I think this is "The Amityville Horror" UK version but much more worst. There are many things wrong about this one. First when the family are convinced that the house is haunted they don't leave but more they look for fame in the newspaper and allow other to visit like there is something entertaining. Len spends his time drinking in the pub instead to take care of his family and doesn't bother to look for a solution about his problem instead Sally's teacher Mr. Price does that is his place. Len along with a friend assist at the exorcism along with the priest even though they don't have any experience. The movie tries to be a real story from the '70 but the missing facts and the uninspired actors makes this to be horrible and silly, so don't bother.