8 Most Overrated Films Of Summer 2016

3. Lights Out

Lights Out is a delightful rollercoaster horror. It’s got an intense central idea that it has a lot of fun playing with, crafting a host of unique scares. But it is also a tad dumb. There's no strong internal logic, despite three freaking exposition scenes that explain over and over what exactly the apparition is (it’s a pretty silly backstory too); that’s how “just be scary, m’kay?” it’s pitching itself as. Sure, it’s a good time at the cinema that had me grinning at the thrilling terror throughout, but it didn’t f*ck me enough to lose a second of sleep.

What it certainly isn’t is a movie to rival recent brain-f*ckers It Follows or The Babadook, genuine modern classics of the horror genre. Yet because it’s creepy some people are claiming just that, acting like it’s some complex, meaningful meditation (if it is, all it’s saying is that the solution to depression is suicide).

Maybe the knock-out idea simply got enough people to overlook innate sillinees. Although if that’s the case, they should probably check out the original short film. Now that is classic.