![]() ![]() ![]() Martin and Rebecca wield every kind of light imaginable to keep her at bay - wind-up flashlights, flickering lamps and candles, glowing smartphone screens, ultraviolet light - in hopes of combating Diana and freeing their mother. She's trying to drag the family into a place where she has total control: the basement. Diana is no longer content to live alone in darkness. It's an interesting concept, reminiscent of A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Babadook, or It Follows, where you have a supernatural entity that abides by its own sinister (and very creepy) logic. Turn the lights off, however, and Diana will be there - one step closer. Like the Night Hag, Diana exists only in darkness an inky silhouette with piercing eyes and a herky-jerky stride that disappears with the flip of a light switch. She's become a recluse, retreating to the darkest corners of the house to speak with an old friend she calls Diana. Their mom, Sophie (played by Maria Bello), is a former psychiatric patient who is slowly unraveling after the recent loss of her husband (played by Billy Burke). When her 10-year-old half-brother, Martin (played by Gabriel Bateman), begins to suffer sleepless nights as a result of their mother's deteriorating condition, Rebecca returns from self-imposed exile to help. ![]() Due to an increasingly difficult and volatile relationship with her mother, Rebecca (played by Teresa Palmer) has been on her own for quite some time. Sandberg's major directorial debut, a new wretch is added to those ranks.īased on Sandberg's 2013 short film, Lights Out is the story of a young woman struggling to protect her little brother from a malevolent entity connected to their mother's troubled past. Films like Ringu, Ju-On: The Grudge, A Tale of Two Sisters, and Mama feature raven-haired women crawling around in the shadows, waiting to devour us (not to mention the documentary The Nightmare about sleep paralysis). I haven't seen the Night Hag in years, but I'm reminded of her constantly. The Night Hag, as I later found out, is a phenomenon associated with sleep paralysis, a condition in which a person temporarily experiences an inability to move, accompanied by terrifying hallucinations. I could feel her gnarled hands pushing down on the mattress to pull herself up - her fetid breath on my neck. I would clench my jaw and squeeze my eyes shut as she climbed onto the bed. Upon making eye contact with her, I would feel an immense pressure on my chest, unable to move my extremities as she spider-walked closer to my bedside. With wiry black hair and pallid flesh, the woman crawled around in circles at the foot of my bed, scratching at the floor with long, claw-like fingernails. I would wake up suddenly in the middle of the night, and there would be something in the room with me: a woman in a blue dress. Throughout my teens and early twenties, I was visited by the Night Hag. ![]()
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