The film "And the lights go out": actors and roles

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

Humanity has always strived for the light. Therefore, darkness and what is hidden in it frighten people. The actors of the film "Lights Out" clearly demonstrated a nightmarish horror that is not visible in the light and manifests itself in the dark.

The plot of the movie "Lights Out"

Film director David Sandberg is very partial to darkness and gloom. A talented resident of Sweden became known throughout the world thanks to short films in the horror genre. A bright and impressive film called Lights out in 2013 was insanely popular on the Internet. This short action became a viral video. The result of such popularity was the move to Hollywood by David with his wife Lotta Lorsten, who was involved in two films. Here, thanks to the financial support of James Wan, Sandberg creates the feature film Lights Out, in which the actors faithfully portrayed the fear of darkness.

The main character of the film is an ordinary girl named Rebecca. The only difference between her and her peers is the terrible and nightmarish visions she saw in childhood. She waited for the onset of each night with fear and horror. However, after her family moves to another house, everyone is creepy.manifestations are over. As she grows older, the girl begins to realize that her childhood nightmares may have been a figment of her childhood imagination. Going about her daily activities, Rebecca gradually forgets the horrors of her childhood.

However, something is wrong now with her little brother Martin. Already this child in their family sees things that are not noticeable to other people. He also hears voices. Rebecca thinks that her brother invents and fantasizes a lot. However, she remembers her childhood and turns to her mother for help. Now the girl is sure that her family is under a curse that has been haunting them for many years.

In Lights Out (2016), actors Teresa Palmer and Gabriel Bateman played the roles of sister and brother.

Teresa Palmer

Charming Teresa was born on February 26, 1986 in the city of Adelaide, located in southern Australia. She was the only child in the family. Her parents, investor Kevin Palmer and nurse Paula Sanders, ended their marriage three years after she was born. The girl lived in two families at the same time. At first she lived with her mother, who was a mentally unstable woman and periodically experienced bouts of manic depression. Teresa then lived under the same roof with her dad, his new wife, and his four children.

Palmer's first lead role was in the Australian film 2:37. The audience in Cannes at the premiere of the picture stood up and applauded wildly. Thanks to this tape, Teresa was noticed by her future Hollywood agent David Seltezer. The debut of a young actress in the Americancinematography took place in 2006 in the work "The Curse 2". Already today, in the biography of the girl, such popular films as "Mad Max 4", "The Sorcerer's Apprentice", "I Am the Fourth". In the film "Lights Out" the actors, along with Palmer, very skillfully beat the relationship of people with a monster from darkness.

Gabriel Bateman

Gabriel Michael Bateman was born on September 10, 2004. In his family, he was the youngest of nine siblings. With the beginning of his acting career, his family from Turlock, California, moved to Southern California. After several months of auditions, Gabriel began to appear in commercials and print ads. In feature films, Bateman appeared in such projects as "Stalker", "Resuscitation", "The Curse of Anabel", "Evil City". Then the director invited the boy to the film "Lights Out". The actors who starred in this film were fascinated by the work of the young actor.

Maria Bello

The future popular actress Maria Bello appeared in the family of an Italian and a Polish woman on April 18, 1967. Bello's childhood years were spent in Pennsylvania. While receiving a law degree at the university, Maria simultaneously attended acting classes. After graduating, the young girl moved to the capital of the global film industry in 1995. The aspiring actress was involved in the television projects Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Ambulance.

In 1998, Maria Bello was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild award. She receivedcoveted award in the nomination "Best ensemble cast in a television drama." In 2004 and 2006, the actress was nominated for the Golden Globe Award. However, Bello never received it.

Maria has starred in more than forty films and TV shows, including Lights Out. Actors Palmer and Bateman collaborated with Maria to create an atmospheric horror film.

Interesting facts about the movie "Lights Out"

• The figurine, which has a head bobbing and a smile painted across its face, refers the viewer to a short film called Lights out from 2013.
• No computer-generated effects were used during the making of the film.
• The mannequins that were in the house are not handpicked props. This is the property of the owner of the estate.
• For young Gabriel Bateman, Lights Out is the second horror film directed by James Wan.
• The basement of the house in which the events in the film took place, for some unknown reason, burned down six months after the end of filming.
• During the filming of the film, the director used real authentic light from candles and fluorescent lamps.
• The film paid off on the first day of the rental, so they planned to shoot a continuation of the story.