Red lights

Year of release : 2012

Run time : 1h49min

Genre : Thriller / Mystery

Cast : Robert De Niro, Sigourney Weaver, Cillian Murphy, Elizabeth Olsen

Paranormal researchers, doctor Margaret Matheson and her assistant, dr.Tom Buckley, investigate paranormal activity.

The movie opens with the two investigating a haunting which proves to be a sham,set together by the mother and the kid,with the help of a fake clairvoyant.

The two have classes about the people who pretend to have powers in order to get money from the gullible. At the same time they investigate the famous people with powers who prove to be fake, and,put them in jail for telling people they healed them,making them refuse treatment,and dying.

A ghost from the past emerges, Simon Silver, who after 30 years of silence (after his most vocal critic died while confronting him), starts doing interviews and having shows.

 

Tom wants to investigate him but Margaret refuses. She has health problems, and a kid in a coma since he was 4. Tom starts investigating on his own,being consumed by it,and he starts being haunted,birds flying into his windows, his apartment destroyed.

Question is, is Silver doing all this,or is there something else?

The movie had a good premise, it's about the lack of the supernatural,and the need to know if anything is out there.

The movie has a reveal at the end,which to me felt like it was put there to give the movie a higher rating, so we wouldn't feel nothing happened and we watched it in vain,because the movie at times is built like a documentary,when they test the people pretending to have powers.

 

The title of the movie, Red Lights, comes from something Margaret says, red lights meaning 'discordant notes', things that shouldn't be there.

The actors were good.

The soundtrack was good.

The visual effects were good.

The movie is free on Hoopla, Kanopy; free with ads on AMC Theatres on Demand, Crackle, Freevee, PlutoTv, The Roku Channel; 30 days free on Amazon Prime, Prime Video with Ads; 7 days free on FuboTv; with subscription on Peacock and Peacock Premium; and for rent/ sale on Amazon Prime Video and AppleTv.

Rating : Worth a watch !