Sundance Film Festival

RED LIGHTS

By | February 2012

2012 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL PREMIERES SELECTION! This could have been a fun, “X-Files”-esque exploration of paranormal phenomena. Instead, it is an extremely earnest failure that is still fun to watch, but only because of the unintended laughs…

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