Cast
Production
| Director: | Rodrigo Cortés |
| Producer: | Rodrigo Cortés (producer) |
| Cindy Cowan (executive producer) | |
| Sara Giles (associate producer) | |
| Adrián Guerra (producer) | |
| Jordi Muñoz (assistant producer) | |
| Toni Novella (line producer) | |
| Christina Piovesan (co-producer) | |
| Lisa Wilson (executive producer) | |
| Writer: | Rodrigo Cortés (screenplay) |
Reviews for Red Lights
Entertainment Weekly
This half-clever mess of a thriller, Red Lights, gets some mileage out of its novel premise. Sigourney Weaver and Cillian Murphy play scientists hunting for evidence of paranormal activity and extrasensory perception.
Read review11 Jul 2012
Film4
Red Lights is a game of three halves - and no, I don't mean thirds. The film has two distinct conventional halves, the first of which builds tension while the second lays on the scares and surprises. But then there's an addendum, one full of...
The A.V. Club
For roughly its first 30 minutes, Red Lights looks like it might be one of the most entertaining and original mainstream horror movies in years. Writer-director Rodrigo Cortés—who helmed the clever 2010 man-in-a-box thriller Buried—introduces his...
Read review12 Jul 2012
Slant Magazine
For an hour or so, Red Lights quietly announces itself as the sort of movie that many viewers have been waiting for. Its brooding atmosphere, suggestion (but never outright depiction) of the supernatural, and deft use of a whole slew of actors who are...
Read review12 Jul 2012
MediaMikes
Hold on a sec, a paranormal thriller/horror film with Robert De Niro, Sigourney Weaver and Cillian Murphy? Where do I sign up? This little film has flown under my radar this summer with big budget superhero movies taken the spotlight. “Red Lights” deserve
Read review2 Aug 2012
External Links
| IMDb.com, Inc.: | www.imdb.com/title/tt1748179/ |
| Wikipedia: | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Lights_(2012_film) |
| Rotten Tomatoes: | www.rottentomatoes.com/m/red_lights_2012/ |
Reviews for Red Lights
Entertainment Weekly
This half-clever mess of a thriller, Red Lights, gets some mileage out of its novel premise. Sigourney Weaver and Cillian Murphy play scientists hunting for evidence of paranormal activity and extrasensory perception.
Read review11 Jul 2012
Film4
Red Lights is a game of three halves - and no, I don't mean thirds. The film has two distinct conventional halves, the first of which builds tension while the second lays on the scares and surprises. But then there's an addendum, one full of...
The A.V. Club
For roughly its first 30 minutes, Red Lights looks like it might be one of the most entertaining and original mainstream horror movies in years. Writer-director Rodrigo Cortés—who helmed the clever 2010 man-in-a-box thriller Buried—introduces his...
Read review12 Jul 2012
Slant Magazine
For an hour or so, Red Lights quietly announces itself as the sort of movie that many viewers have been waiting for. Its brooding atmosphere, suggestion (but never outright depiction) of the supernatural, and deft use of a whole slew of actors who are...
Read review12 Jul 2012
MediaMikes
Hold on a sec, a paranormal thriller/horror film with Robert De Niro, Sigourney Weaver and Cillian Murphy? Where do I sign up? This little film has flown under my radar this summer with big budget superhero movies taken the spotlight. “Red Lights” deserve
Read review2 Aug 2012
JoBlo's Movie Emporium
Sometimes you just wish a movie would be plain old bad as opposed to bad with some pretty good parts. RED LIGHTS is like that, a mystery that starts off quite promisingly but little by little unravels into a predictable and tedious thriller.
Read review9 Jul 2012
RedEye
That’s because much of “Red Lights” revolves around Dr. Tom Buckley (Cillian Murphy), a physicist determined to expose any and all supposed psychics and paranormal visions as frauds. He knows when someone discreetly lifts a table to simulate something...
Read review26 Jul 2012
Reel Film Reviews
Red Lights follows professional skeptics Margaret Matheson (Sigourney Weaver) and Tom Buckley (Cillian Murphy) as they debunk a series of supposed paranormal occurrences, with complications ensuing for the pair as Margaret becomes determined to once...
Read review13 Aug 2012
TotalFilm.com
The toolbox may be bigger in his supernaturally themed follow-up, but Red Lights shows Cortés’ knack for suspense was no fluke.
Read review11 Jun 2012
SFX
Just because we’re reviewing Red Lights in SFX, don’t take that as a spoiler about its central question – namely, does Robert De Niro’s charismatic guru possess supernatural powers?
Read review15 Jun 2012
Indian Express
FOR a movie about the mind and ESP, Red Lights does a lot of talking -- only some of it does it good. For, how many ways are there to say "weigh belief against rationality". Dr Margaret Matheson (Weaver), Simon Silver (de Niro), Tom Buckley (Murphy)...
Read review24 Aug 2012
New York Post
Robert De Niro, who seems hellbent of late on capturing The Post’s annual Turkey Award for Worst Actor, certainly got an impressive start with his self-parodying role as a derelict taxi driver in this spring’s “Being Flynn.’’
Read review12 Jul 2012
Susan Granger Entertainment Commentaries
The promising premise of this psychological thriller involves supernatural debunking or how phony psychics, ghost whisperers and faith healers convince the gullible public that they possess special powers to access the ephemeral spiritual world.
Read review19 Jul 2012
Mark Reviews Movies
A man closes the palm of his hand around a coin. He quickly moves his hands back and forth, over and under each other, until he asks the woman across the table from him which hand contains the coin. Neither does, of course. The trick was to make...
Read review27 Jul 2012
Orlando Weekly
The thrill of exposing a fraud is a notion with a rich cinematic history covering all manners of craft – revivalism in Marjoe, art forgery in F for Fake, demonic possession in The Last Exorcism, for example – and understandably so considering the...
Read review2 Aug 2012
Richard Roeper.com
“This movie has such a ponderous, self-important style, even though it’s so preposterous, it almost comes off as a comedy.”
Empire
Even with flashes of invention and the game cast, it would take a wilier showman than Cortés to truly impress with this shabby bag of tricks.
Time Out London
A dollop of ‘The X Files’, a dash of ‘The Sixth Sense’ and a whole lot of blah come together in Rodrigo Cortés’s supernatural suspense thriller. Sigourney Weaver and Cillian Murphy play a pair of academic debunkers of paranormal hokum with a sublimated...
Birmingham Mail
You might also think this is a Robert De Niro movie given his visage on the poster. But, again, things ain’t always what they seem... It’s almost as if Hollywood’s ‘A’ listers have realised that if Premiership footballers can earn ridiculous sums for...
Read review15 Jun 2012
Shadows on the Wall
Spanish filmmaker Cortes clearly thinks of himself as a Christopher Nolan-style filmmaker, as this thriller has heavy echoes of Inception and especially The Prestige. But the film drifts into self-parody just when it needs to take an intelligent twist.
Read review7 Jun 2012
MovieXclusive.com
Rodrigo Cortes has done it again. Just so that you know this reviewer's biases, I was deeply impressed with how the Spanish writer-director-editor had deftly crafted what was essentially a one scene, one setting, one actor thriller in Buried which...
Cast
| Robert De Niro | ... | Simon Silver |
| Cillian Murphy | ... | Tom Buckley |
 | Sigourney Weaver | ... | Margaret Matheson |
| Elizabeth Olsen | ... | Sally Owen |
| Joely Richardson | ... | Monica Handsen |
| Toby Jones | ... | Paul Shackleton |
 | Craig Roberts | ... | Ben |
 | Burn Gorman | ... | Benedict Cohen |
 | Karen David | ... | Dana |
 | Jan Cornet | ... | David Matheson |
 | Leonardo Sbaraglia | ... | Palladino |
 | Jeany Spark | ... | Traci Northrop |
| Jesse Bostick | ... | TV Boy | |
 | Garrick Hagon | ... | Howard McColm |
 | Peter Brooke | ... | Reporter #1 |
| Patricia Potter | ... | Dr | |
 | Jeff Mash | ... | Reporter |
| Pablo Derqui | ... | David | |
| Eugenio Mira | ... | Young Simon Silver | |
 | Mitchell Mullen | ... | Jim Carroll |
 | Molly Malcolm | ... | Reporter #3 |
| Aidan Shipley | ... | Soldier Son | |
| Ann Turnbull | ... | Mrs. Owen | |
| Liliana Cabal | ... | Reporter | |
 | Gina Bramhill | ... | Judi Cale |
| Simon Lee Phillips | ... | Standing Spectator | |
| Paulette Sinclair | ... | Woman in Wheel Chair | |
| Lynn Blades | ... | Dana | |
| Eben Young | ... | Dick | |
| Julius Cotter | ... | Dr. Conrad Jennings | |
| Xavier Capdet | |||
| Miquel Bordoy | |||
 | Simon Brading | ... | Silver's Assistant (uncredited) |
| Nikol Kollars | ... | Lab Telekinesis Scientist (uncredited) | |
| Jaume Queralt | ... | Journalist (uncredited) | |
 | Jean Claude Ricquebourg | ... | Simon Silver's assistant (uncredited) |
| Robert G. Slade | ... | TV Interviewer 70's (uncredited) | |
| Joshua Zamrycki | ... | Man in Bathroom #2 (uncredited) |
Production
| Director: | Rodrigo Cortés |
| Producer: | Rodrigo Cortés (producer) |
| Cindy Cowan (executive producer) | |
| Sara Giles (associate producer) | |
| Adrián Guerra (producer) | |
| Jordi Muñoz (assistant producer) | |
| Toni Novella (line producer) | |
| Christina Piovesan (co-producer) | |
| Lisa Wilson (executive producer) | |
| Writer: | Rodrigo Cortés (screenplay) |
| Composer: | Víctor Reyes |
| Cinematographer: | Xavi Giménez |
| Editing: | Rodrigo Cortés |
| Casting: | Ronna Kress |
| Production Design: | Antón Laguna |
| Art Director: | Edward Bonutto |
| Costume Design: | Patricia Monné |
| Makeup: | Caitlin Acheson (key makeup artist) |
| Raúl Cabanell (assistant makeup artist) | |
| Ana Lozano (makeup department) | |
| Jesús Martos (personal hair stylist) | |
| Jordi Morera (special makeup effects artist: DDT SFX Crew) | |
| Eva Quilez (dailies makeup artist) | |
| Production Management: | Daniel Bekerman (production manager: Canada) |
| Veronica Diaz (production manager) | |
| Chris Pavoni (assistant production manager: Canada) | |
| Federico Rozadillas (assistant production manager) | |
| Veronica Diaz (production manager) |
Companies
| Production Studio: | Nostromo Pictures |
| Cindy Cowan Entertainment | |
| Antena 3 Films |
| United States | 20 Jan 2012 | |
| Spain | 2 Mar 2012 | |
| United Kingdom | 15 Jun 2012 | |
| Russian Federation | 19 Jul 2012 | |
| Lithuania | 20 Jul 2012 | |
| Ireland | 15 Jun 2012 | |
| Serbia | 28 Jun 2012 | |
 | Bahrain | 2 Jul 2012 |
 | Kuwait | 12 Jul 2012 |
 | Iceland | 13 Jul 2012 |
 | Israel | 19 Jul 2012 |
| Estonia | 20 Jul 2012 | |
| Portugal | 26 Jul 2012 | |
| Singapore | 26 Jul 2012 | |
 | Armenia | 27 Jul 2012 |
| Taiwan | 3 Aug 2012 | |
| Germany | 9 Aug 2012 | |
| Canada | 10 Aug 2012 | |
| Hong Kong | 23 Aug 2012 | |
| India | 24 Aug 2012 | |
| Belgium | 29 Aug 2012 | |
| Netherlands | 30 Aug 2012 | |
| Mexico | 7 Sep 2012 | |
| Brazil | 21 Sep 2012 | |
| Argentina | 11 Oct 2012 | |
| Japan | 15 Feb 2013 | |
| Italy | 8 Nov 2012 | |
| Hungary | 29 Nov 2012 | |
| Uruguay | 7 Dec 2012 | |
| Chile | 20 Dec 2012 | |
| Turkey | 28 Dec 2012 | |
| Sweden | 20 Feb 2013 |
