From Andy Fickman, director of ‘Heathers: The Musical,’ ‘Race to Witch Mountain,’ ‘Reefer Madness,’ and the new stage play ‘Willy’s Candy Spectacular,’ comes the new horror film inspired by real life events.
DON’T TURN OUT THE LIGHTS follows a group of six friends, reuniting for the first time since leaving for college. Desperate to keep their friendships intact amidst their new distance, everyone comes home to celebrate Queen Bee Olivia’s birthday, which includes a ten-hour RV trip to the hottest ticket in town, the Blue Light Music Festival. But almost immediately, the trip gets off to a weird start as Olivia’s boyfriend Michael brings his college roommate: a steely, quiet ex-marine named Jason.
The seven of them hit the open road and the party begins. At first, everything is great, and the group is happy to be reunited. But the fun road trip quickly turns sinister. After a fight with a few racist truck drivers, the group finds themselves in a race for their lives as the truck drivers follow them, in hot pursuit of their RV. Stopping for directions at an unwelcoming bar, the seven friends decide to go rogue– they take a shortcut through the woods, determined to make it to the festival. But while moving down a desolate and pitch-black road, the RV breaks down, and the group is stuck there.
With no good options, arguments begin to surface– not just about their current predicament, but about their decades-old friendships. As each one of them goes to explore the surrounding area, they begin to get picked off, one by one. Trapped in their RV, they turn it into a makeshift fort, ready to defend themselves with anything they can find if they hope to survive the night. Something– or someone– is hunting them, and they can’t see what it is. By the time the sun comes up, only one is left standing, their world completely changed

