The blu ray version of red lights is enjoyable but flawed. This interesting film contains suspense, thrills, intrigue,intense drama and plot twists. Red lights has a decent premise, but the script lets the actors down. It doesnt help that, when not indulging in showy camera pans around his main. So i happened to see this movie mainly because of the actor of scarecrow from dark knight i dont understand what really happened at the ending.
But then again, at one point were shown a film where some psychic ostensibly explodes a frogs heart, which suggests such things might be doable. Even so, it is the great good fortune of red lights that mr. It was written and directed by rodrigo cortes, whose buried 2010 you may remember. Red lights margaret matheson and her assistant, tom buckley, study claims of paranormal activity with the intention of exposing frauds. Id love to see a thriller that was about what red lights starts to be about, the debunking of psychics by expert paranormal investigators. Red lights seemed like an interesting movie, because of the statement that proposes. The film itself seems a little uneasy with silver, as though afraid too much will be given away, so until the finale, theres a sense of. This leads to an investigation of a famous blind psychic who has been out of the public eye for 30 years, but whose reemergence has created a. As the music crescendos, the storm of letters and lights is swallowed by television static and the thunder of a jet flying into view, its red lights in focus. Margaret matheson sigourney weaver and tom buckley cillian murphy debunk fraudulent claims of ghost w. Psychologist margaret matheson and her assistant study paranormal activity, which leads them to investigate a worldrenowned psychic who has resurfaced years after his toughest critic mysteriously passed away. Professional skeptics, they have debunked dozens of fraudulent mind readers, ghost hunters, faith healers and the like by detecting what matheson calls red lights, subtle clues to the trickery behind each of these supernatural occurrences. Red lights setup is silly but fun, with a fair degree of selfawareness that the films entire superscientists vs.
Red lights trailer ufficiale italiano 01distribution. Okay, i just cant finish that, because its too obvious, and at any rate, sting is singing about the red light, as if to say theres one red light, whereas this film is about red light usu. Red lights also shows a director who knows how to construct a story and build interest, but at the end, it flies apart. Margaret matheson and her partner, tom buckley are the worlds foremost investigators of paranormal phenomena. Red lights 2012 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
While it has interesting twists and bucks convention, the story is just far too weak to be enjoyable. Financial analysis of red lights 2012 including budget, domestic and international box office gross, dvd and bluray sales reports, total earnings and profitability. Thriller di gran fascino e tensione con il solo difetto di voler troppo sorprendere lo spettatore. Margaret matheson and her young assistant, tom buckley, study the most varied metaphysical phenomena with the aim of proving their fraudulent origins. Rent red lights 2012 on dvd and bluray dvd netflix. Margaret matheson weaver, a middleaged professional skeptic whose academic work concentrates on debunking the alleged cases of paranormal. This is the first movie of rodrigo cortes that ive watched.
All i had seen was a tagline that said this years sixth sense. Everything you need to know about red lights movie 2012. The film also does a crafty job of setting its stage. In red lights, psychology professors margaret mathesonsigourney weaver and tom buckleycillian murphy spend most of their time out of the classroom debunking various and. Red lights is a 2012 spanishamerican thriller film written and directed by rodrigo cortes and starring cillian murphy, sigourney weaver, toby jones. The ending was unexpected but should have been predictable but the plot has a red herring let alone red light background. That was the film shot entirely from the pov of a man buried in a coffin. Two investigators of paranormal hoaxes, the veteran dr. The picture succeeds because the thriller, tension, as well as a superbly. Produced by music by 1 cinematography by 1 film editing by 1 casting by 1 production design by 1 art direction by 1 set decoration by 1 costume design by 1 makeup department 6 production management 5 second unit director or assistant director. Inside the creepy twists of red lights spanish filmmaker rodrigo cortes returns to the scene with his second englishlanguage film, red lights. A real build up of mystery and intrigue, intelligently handled, and eloquently stated.
Red lights 2012 film jump to navigation jump to search this article. There are, however, uneven stretches in red lights. I mean silver goes crazy and bukley throws something at silver and silver keeps saying how did you do that. A dark cellar full of secrets emerges through shocks of xrays, weathered photographs, ancient texts, equations, and newspapers. An articulate script, clever twists, some decidedly macabre sequences, solid direction and good performances result in an effective, if rather uninvolving, chiller.
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