![]() Sandberg recognizes Lights Out as a spiritual successor to Shadowed. It was just so weird, but it was fun to direct her on a Hollywood set and we could speak Swedish to each other. The original Lights Out short film, which Sandberg and Losten created in 2013 before turning it into a feature three years later. Every time she pushes the switch, someone else had to turn the lights on. So there’s movie lights overhead that another guy had to time with her. Sandberg Erick Rabello 6.52K subscribers Subscribe 1.1K 83K views 9 years ago O cineasta sueco David F. Just little details like that light switch that she uses in the film, it’s just a fake Hollywood light switch that doesn’t really do anything. 0:00 / 2:42 Lights Out (A short horror film) :: David F. “Lotta has to be in the film because it was just her and I that made the short. “That’s something we wanted right from the start,” Sandberg told SlashFilm. The cast also includes the star of the original short film, Lotta Losten, Sandberg’s wife.ĭuring WonderCon, Sandberg revealed that a version of the scene that played out in the short film also unfolds in the feature-length movie. While Sandberg preprises his role behind the camera, Lights Out features some relatively well-known actors, including Warm Bodies and I Am Number Four actress Teresa Palmer and A History of Violence and The Cooler actress Maria Bello. But you can’t build a whole movie from top-to-bottom out of that alone.Wan and Sandberg debuted the trailer for Lights Out during the recent WonderCon event in Los Angeles, and the trailer offers a terrifying look at a story that expands beyond the brief encounter chronicled in the 2013 short film. It’s just that in Lights Out, he had a bang-on jump-scare and an inspired visual idea. The film had a simple yet brilliant horror. Sandberg released a short horror film on YouTube called Lights Out. Lights Out is a 2013 Swedish supernatural horror short film directed, written, produced, shot, and scored by David F. So we know the man can direct the shit out of a good horror premise. Several years ago, in 2013, director David F. That short was seen by famed filmmaker and producer James Wan (Furious 7, Aquaman, The Conjuring) who offered to produce a feature film version at New Line Cinema. When he was given meatier material to work with in Annabelle: Creation, he fucking knocked it out of the park. Doing it in reverse is hard, and this film shows us why.Īnd of course, Sandberg is a very talented horror director. Usually you come up with the story idea first, and then build the imagery around that. ![]() But the rest of the film’s parts are all working around that visual idea which was the genesis for the entire enterprise, and that’s a tough ask because it’s got the process pretty much backward. Sure, when the lights start flickering and then hit you with a jump-scare of a creepy-ass dreadlocked ghostie, it’s pretty satisfying. Barely two years ago, 35-year-old Swede David F. But it has to work to pigeon-hole that image into a functional plot and it doesn’t completely work. Lights Out How a New Director Turned His Viral Short Film Into Full-Length Horror Feature. ![]() This is an OK horror movie, that relies heavily on a single (really scary!) visual image and trick. And it’s no surprise that when Sandberg tried to extend the really striking visual idea he had into a movie with a cast of characters and a back-story and a plot, the spooky shadow creature on its own wasn’t quite enough to carry all that weight. ![]() We see her come out of a room into a corridor, then walk to. This woman is the only character that we see in the entire short film, which gives us the assumption that she is alone in the house. Throughout the film we see a woman, who looks around 30 years old. It’s not to say that a really clever image from a short film cannot possibly become a good feature-length film. Lights Out is a supernatural horror/ thriller lasting a total 2 minutes 41 seconds. The clip became so popular that, naturally a studio came bumbling over and commissioned it into a feature length film because clearly a 3-minute Youtube clip that leans entirely on one creepy visual image can be seamlessly lengthened into a satisfying feature.Įxcept, as the movie 9 showed us pretty unequivocally, this is not true. It’s a pretty brilliant little exercise in using silhouettes and editing to achieve maximum and visceral effect. Sandberg wrote, directed, scored, shot and gave birth to a 3-minute horror short called Lights Out.
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