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(1950)

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5/10
Not really scary--just goofy.
planktonrules2 November 2012
"Lights Out" was one of the earliest shows on television and was a bit like "The Twilight Zone" merged with a monster film. In other words, it was a horror anthology series--and you need to cut it some slack because of when it was made. So, in "Beware This Woman" when you hear really crappy organ music, remember that the show is just a tiny jump from old time radio shows--where crappy organ music was the norm! Also, the fact that the camera-work is very bad--again, chalk that up to how the show was hastily and very inexpensively made.

The show begins with a woman (Veronica Lake) approaching some professor to see if he can help her get rid of a poltergeist. While the spirit is not malevolent, it IS very mischievous and annoying and she's tired of it. As for the professor, he's a very rational man and insists that it is NOT real--but does the poltergeist believe this, too?! The film has many cheesy moments NOT based on the earliness of the show. Calling Lake's character 'Miss Device' (???) and the cheap jokes make this a show you'll either love or hate. I was just left kind of flat. However, take heart--there ARE some really cool episodes of the series that are available for free download at archive.org.
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4/10
It's not the woman. It's her poltergeist!
mark.waltz6 May 2020
Warning: Spoilers
This "Lights Out" episode features Miss peekaboo hairstyle 1942, Veronica Lake, now looking more like longtime rivals Lauren Bacall and Lizabeth Scott. She's matured greatly over the past decade, and appearing in this low-budget anthology series, shows how things had gone for her. enjoyable inconsequential, and inconclusive as it deals with lake traveling around with a ghost bothering her, a pranksterous one who throws papers up in the air at the worst times, yet she can't seem to get anybody (which includes a bunch of eccentrics) to believe her. However, little by little, they come around, particularly doctor Glen Denning. Unfortunately, it concludes just as it seems to be getting going, and that leaves the viewer hanging. As early TV, it's historically interesting, but you'll have soon forgotten it.
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