Frank Grillo is a bona fide badass action star. So, he was a no-brainer to lead in the gritty underground fight movie Lights Out directed by Christian Semsa.

The film also stars with an all-star cast that features Mekhi Phifer, Scott Adkins, Dermot Mulroney, Jaime King, Amaury Nolasco, Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone, Erica Peeples, Juju Chan Szeto, Paul Sloan, Justin Furstenfeld, and Kevin Gage.

Sesma directed the film based on the screenplay of Chad Law and Garry Charles.

Here is the synopsis for the film:

In Lights Out, a homeless veteran, Michael “Duffy” Duffield (Grillo), meets a talkative ex-con, Max Bomer (Phifer) who notices Duffy’s skills after he gets into a bar fight and offers him a well-paying “job” competing in underground fight clubs. The pair form an unlikely partnership after their first fight and decide to travel to Los Angeles so Duffy can atone for his past and Max can pay back a crime boss, Sage Parker (Mulroney). Duffy enters Sage’s fight club and eventually wins, but it also gets him tied up in the crime world and offered jobs he can’t refuse, including one with Sage’s partner and police officer, Ellen Ridgway (King). The deeper Duffy goes in this world, the more deadly it gets.

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LRM Online’s Gig Patta chatted with director Christian Sesma on this different kind of action film he had partaken in the past. We talked about Grillo and Mulroney and the preparations for making enticing fight sequences.

Christian Sesma is a self-taught filmmaker inspired after reading Robert Rodriguez’s Rebel Without a Crew back at San Diego State University. He made a name in the industry in the indie action space genre, including his debut Vigilante Diaries at San Diego Comic-Con International. He followed up with many action films attached with big stars, including PayDirt with Luke Goss and Val Kilmer; Take Back with Mickey Rourke and Michael Jai White, and Every Last One of Them with Richard Dreyfuss, Taryn Manning, and Jake Weber.

Lights Out is currently available on demand and digitally.

Watch the exclusive interview with Christian Sesma below. Let us know what you think of the interview.

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Source: LRM Online Exclusive, Quiver Distribution