Massively underrated film with Robert De Niro is now on Amazon Prime | Films | Entertainment | EUROtoday

A 2012 movie that was “destined to be a cult classic” has simply been added to Amazon Prime Video, and it options Robert De Niro as a psychic in opposition to debunkers Cillian Murphy and Sigourney Weaver.

Red Lights is a psychological thriller about skeptics Dr. Margaret Matheson (Sigourney Weaver) and Tom Buckley (Cillian Murphy), who specialise in exposing fraudulent paranormal claims.

They focus their efforts on Simon Silver (Robert De Niro), a famend psychic who has reappeared after a long time of silence, sparking Tom’s obsession with disproving Silver’s talents.

The movie explores the blurring strains between notion and actuality, significantly within the context of paranormal claims.

The predominant plot occurs when Tom turns into more and more obsessive about disproving Silver’s claims, resulting in a harmful and mysterious investigation. Meanwhile, Margaret’s private historical past with Silver makes her reluctant to become involved within the challenge.

The movie was written, produced and directed by Rodrigo Cortés, who spent a 12 months and a half researching and finding out psychic powers, from each skeptics’ and believers’ factors of view.

Robert De Niro additionally researched and met with psychics to develop his function, which led him to come back to the conclusion that he believed in psychics to some extent.

“There’s no way they could have known certain things and they said them, so in that sense, I have no answer than to say that I have to believe that there’s something there that they pick up psychically”, he told Empire in 2012. “I don’t know what it is”.

Upon its launch, Red Lights obtained combined destructive criticism that usually described it as a “predictable thriller”. The specialised media’s consensus gave it a 30% rating on movie reviewing platform Rotten Tomatoes.

On the opposite hand, many others praised it for being thrilling in unconventional methods, “constantly playful and often tongue-in-cheek as it works through the hokey conventions of the genre”.

Many different specialists applaud Red Lights’ spectacular forged, optimistic narrative surprises, enjoyable jumpscares and suspense sequences.

Red Lights (2012) is now out there for streaming on Amazon’s Prime Video.