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Lights Out
MEANRANK
63/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #3569
- IMDb #3884
- Google retired #1732
- Rotten Tomatoes #2632
- Metacritic #2742
- Letterboxd #4655
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2462
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #3299
- Metacritic Critics #2638
- Metacritic Audience #2803
- Criticker #3099
- Douban #1818
- Kinopoisk #4964
- AlloCiné #3148
- Trakt #3436
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 34, highest is Google on 86.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A woman is haunted by a terrifying entity that only appears in the darkness, a presence tied to her mother's own traumatic past. When her younger brother begins to experience the same phenomenon, she must investigate her mother's history to understand the nature of the shadowy creature. They must find a way to escape the monster that thrives in the dark before it claims them.
Details
- Director
- David F. Sandberg
- Writer
- Eric Heisserer
- Released
- 21 July 2016
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 81 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $4.9M
- Box office
- $149.4M
- Awards
- 1 win, 1 nomination
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 2 →1 win from 2 nominations across 2 ceremonies
| Fright Meter Award 2016 | Best Special Effects | Lights Out | Nominee |
| Palm Springs International Film Festival 2016 | Directors to Watch | David F. Sandberg | Winner |
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×| Directors to Watch | David F. Sandberg | Winner |
| Best Special Effects | Lights Out | Nominee |