Director: Andy Fickman
A festival-bound road trip turns into a fight for survival in Don't Turn Out the Lights, a 2024 American horror feature directed by Andy Fickman.
What is Don't Turn Out the Lights about?
Four friends pile into a car for what should be an ordinary drive to a music festival, chasing a weekend of songs and sunshine. The mood curdles once a wrong turn strands them on a stretch of road that seems to have no end and no other traffic. Strange lights flicker in the distance, radio signals cut out, and small warning signs pile up until the group realizes the trip has become something else entirely. Bella DeLong, Amber Janea, Daryl Tofa, and Finley Rose Slater play the travelers, and the film leans on isolation and dwindling daylight rather than a single onscreen villain to build dread. Running 109 minutes, it keeps the group's bond central even as their situation worsens.
Cast & crew
Bella DeLong and Amber Janea anchor the friend group as the two most level-headed voices, while Daryl Tofa and Finley Rose Slater round out a cast that plays largely against genre-newcomer status rather than horror-veteran stunt casting.
Context & significance
Andy Fickman, better known for family comedies, takes a rare turn toward horror here, and the shift shows in a film more interested in mounting unease than in graphic violence. It arrived in 2024 as part of a wave of low-budget road-trip horror titles built around a small cast and a single stretch of unfriendly highway.
Where & how to watch
Don't Turn Out the Lights streams on K-Time with a Persian-subtitled track, so Farsi-speaking audiences can follow the dialogue without losing the film's steadily built tension. Watching requires a free K-Time account login; the film page itself is open to read without signing in, and the whole experience, including menus and search, runs in a Farsi-first interface built for the Iranian diaspora.