Its implied, and outright speculated In-Universe by Thomas, that the lighting is being artificially created by WICKED.
#Scorch trials movie#
Despite this movie being the film adaptation of the second book The Scorch Trials, the group is revealed to exist about a third of the way through the movie, and the plot then becomes about the protagonists finding and meeting up with them - which they do shortly before the climax.
It seems they have a natural immunity to the vicious plague that has devastated the world beyond the laboratory. The Gladers have something the Creators desperately need: their blood.
The Gladers are now lab rats within the aptly-named “World in Catastrophe: Killzone Experiment Department” (WCKD). The vast labyrinth turns out to have been an elaborate initiation exercise organized by the so-called Creators. The narrative centers on a band of intrepid youth known as “Gladers,” who have escaped the mysterious maze of the title. Like its predecessor, “The Scorch Trials” is essentially a mash-up of “The Hunger Games” and “Divergent” - this time with a good dose of “Mad Max” and “Night of the Living Dead” added to darken the formula still further. Unfortunately, most of their adult counterparts are evil and untrustworthy, which seems to be de rigueur for the young-adult genre these days. When our youthful heroes are not too busy running, they espouse the virtues of loyal friendship and self-sacrifice. Picking up where 2014’s “The Maze Runner” left off, the relentless pacing and nonstop action leave little time to decipher the convoluted yet unsubstantial plot, which is probably a good thing. The forecast is bleak in “Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials” (Fox).