Max Verstappen arrives holding a 46-point lead in the Drivers' Championship standings, after making huge strides towards defending his F1 crown in recent weeks. Special effects of having the ghost appear and disappear were mostly done by using a split-screen technique as also used in the short. Sandberg said "Whenever she's in frame with another character, it's basically just a split screen. So you shoot it with her and without her. You turn the camera on with her, you turn it off and she walks off, and then you turn it on again. It's super simple, actually." Sandberg also made a list of what he called the "light gags", or different ways to create light sources from flashlights to cell phones and gunfire. In the scene when Diana appears in Rebecca's room, James Wan suggested replacing passing car headlights in an early treatment with the flashing neon sign that appears in the final film. [6] Suicide concerns and ending [ edit ] The film had its world premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival on June 8, 2016. [13] The film also screened at Comic-Con on July 20, 2016, [14] and was released on July 22, 2016. [15] Reception [ edit ] Box office [ edit ] D'Alessandro, Anthony (December 21, 2015). "Guy Ritchie's King Arthur Film Gallops To 2017; 'Lights Out' Set For Summer". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved July 23, 2016. Roeper, Richard (July 21, 2016). " 'Lights Out': In the dark, this supremely scary movie glows". Chicago Sun-Times . Retrieved July 29, 2016.

Lights Out is based on David F. Sandberg's short story of the same name. It tells the story of a mother (Maria Bello) and daughter (Teresa Palmer) and their estranged relationship, brought about in part by the mother's mental illness and also a ghostly presence that has latched itself on to the mother. This presence can only be seen - yep you guessed it - when the lights are out. The short story succeeds precisely because the initial scare is clever and the concept holds steam within the few minutes the story takes to finish - however, this feature length Lights Out loses steam, purely because whilst the initial scares are cleverly put together, the audience becomes so familiar with the concept that the would-be scares no longer terrify, but in some instances become comical. There are memories of his wife, Jean Taprell Clark, whose schizophrenia meant that they decided not to have children, and who died of leukaemia in 1973. Briggs includes heartbreakingly beautiful photographs and a love letter she wrote to him from hospital. In a section called “Soon” he thinks ahead, to the inevitable care home and even to the grave, but always maintaining a mordant humour. “Future Ghosts” imagines his house being cleared after his death: “There must have been / some barmy old bloke here / long-haired, artsy-fartsy type, / did pictures for kiddy books / or some such tripe.” Sweet sketches and verse about his step-grandchildren – “a shaft of light amid the gloom of old age” – are a welcome interlude. I wonder if this frankness is a reaction against the buttoned-up decorum of the previous generation, and in particular his mother, a former lady’s maid who prized euphemism above unpleasantness and would chase her long-haired son around with a comb, but Briggs has never liked dwelling on his motivations. “It’s not a campaign. I just do what I want to do.” The closest he’ll come to a self-diagnosis is the definition of a “creative sociopath” that he seized on some years ago and still has pinned up on the wall. “‘Artistic people … can appear self-absorbed, impulsive, impatient and intolerant’,” he reads aloud. “Brilliant. That’s me to a tee.” Mercedes Team Principle Toto Wolff told Sky Sports: ‘It’s very frustrating – we were a second up on Leclerc and Verstappen so Lewis was on for pole.’There is an honesty about the vulnerabilities and losses of aging and the ever-present sense of walking with death. There is a little of the joys, such as the brief appearance of his partner’s grandchildren. I think that more could have been made of this as the gloom does threaten to overwhelm. Some of the joy and love shared between him and his, sadly now late, partner could have sat alongside the death of his wife some decades ago. There are gains as well as losses. Max Verstappen’s charge to his second world championship will continue at the iconic Zandvoort circuit in front of a raucous home army of Dutch fans. This s a very depressing book. Well, the subject is not the most cheerful one, but many of us have happy moments even after 70!

This is the witching hour! It is an hour when dogs howl, and evil things are let loose on a sleeping world. Want to hear about it? Then turn out your lights!"MORE : Martin Brundle slams Fernando Alonso for calling Lewis Hamilton an ‘idiot’ after Belgian Grand Prix crash Silverstone - the home of British motorsport and a cornerstone of F1 since its 1950 debut - hosts the 10th round of an absorbing 2022 season, and Sky Sports has you covered from Thursday through to Sunday's race.