Name of movie where the monsters flee from torches and other light sources

[sfnhltb]

Can't remember the name but can roughly outline the plot as below, can anyone remember the name of it? Probably 2010ish, but I could be out a fair bit.

Main protagonist is a generic guy and the setting is contemporary in a city/large town, think right from the start or within the first few minutes the monsters are attacking people any time it is dark, but they flee from any light source so he is always running about with a torch (although the batteries keep draining within minutes when used), and something like christmas lights hanging around his neck (series of LED looking things in a plastic tube), car headlights (again the battery drains fast), and so on.

After a while running he ends up at a bar that has a gas generator downstairs that is keeping the monsters at bay, and there is a woman (I think she wants to go to the hospital looking for some relative, which I think they do in the end) and a young boy who I think might be a relative of the bar owner who went looking for someone before the main character arrived. Eventually the generator dies for some reason and they have trouble restarting it and they get chased away from the bar, and I forget how it ends.

Movies it is not: Darkness, Darkness Falls, They, REC, Lights Out, The Descent, Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, Pitch Black

[DarkCrystalMethod]

Riddick had some light-fearing aliens/monsters... but thats probably not the move you're thinking about.

[Fake]

Gremlins
Gremlins 2

[Basho]

this one bothers me a lot because i think i know exactly what movie this is but i cant recall the name or the main actor.

edit:
found the one im thinking of:

Vanishing on 7th Street (2010)

[DarkCrystalMethod]

People under the stairs?

[isomorphic_projection]

This is what AI gave me.

After asking this. Person walking around with car battery and lights against monsters.

The scenario you described sounds like it could be from the movie "I Am Legend" (2007). In this post-apocalyptic film, Will Smith plays Robert Neville, a scientist who is one of the last survivors in New York City after a virus outbreak. He often uses makeshift lights and has to defend himself against nocturnal creatures (mutated humans) that are affected by the virus. The themes of survival and the use of improvised equipment, like car batteries and lights, are central to the story. If this isn't the movie you were thinking of, could you provide more details or context?

[skOsH♥]

Sounds like I am legend, pretty sure

Just wait for the upcoming Slap to the Future. I hear it slaps.

[sfnhltb]

Originally posted by Basho:

this one bothers me a lot because i think i know exactly what movie this is but i cant recall the name or the main actor.

edit:
found the one im thinking of:

Vanishing on 7th Street (2010)

Thanks, this is the one.

[Duck Twacy]

Originally posted by sfnhltb:

Can't remember the name but can roughly outline the plot as below, can anyone remember the name of it? Probably 2010ish, but I could be out a fair bit.

Main protagonist is a generic guy and the setting is contemporary in a city/large town, think right from the start or within the first few minutes the monsters are attacking people any time it is dark, but they flee from any light source so he is always running about with a torch (although the batteries keep draining within minutes when used), and something like christmas lights hanging around his neck (series of LED looking things in a plastic tube), car headlights (again the battery drains fast), and so on.

After a while running he ends up at a bar that has a gas generator downstairs that is keeping the monsters at bay, and there is a woman (I think she wants to go to the hospital looking for some relative, which I think they do in the end) and a young boy who I think might be a relative of the bar owner who went looking for someone before the main character arrived. Eventually the generator dies for some reason and they have trouble restarting it and they get chased away from the bar, and I forget how it ends.

Movies it is not: Darkness, Darkness Falls, They, REC, Lights Out, The Descent, Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, Pitch Black

The original Frankenstein with Boris Karloff.