When the Lights Went Out (2012)

directed by: Pat Holden
writen by: Pat Holden
photographed by: Jonathan Harvey
music by: Marc Canham
edited by: Robert Hall & Gary Scullion
stars: Kate Ashfield, Nicky Bell, Alan Brent
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We have just writen about The Bay, an example of found footage, and now we are going to write about another recurring topic in latest horror movies: poltergeists.

When The Lights Went Out is a more than acceptable poltergeist movie, with a british approach. And that, not being another haunted house in the middle of the american countryside or an american town suburb, is  someting to consider.

Besides, WTLWO is benefited of a feeling of freshness, totally welcome in the world of horror, where almost all directors seem to think that a heavy (in the sense of dark, slow, even boring...) direction, a heavy screenplay, a heavy photography are the (only) way of creating an anguishing atmosphere. 

If you allow me the audacity, WTLWO even reminds me sometimes of the cinema by Ken Loach.

A more than correct horror movie ...And the 86 minutes pass quickly.