This opening scene last for a good five minutes probably and sets up what to expect for the rest of Lights Out. In that opening scene, Billy Burke also makes an appearance playing the father of the family we will learn about soon. Before we talk about the main roles here, it is good to address some of the smaller cameo roles starting from the opening scene, Lotta Losten which almost replays the original short but in a new setting. Teresa Palmer has Warm Blood and Maria Bello has more than we can count (most recently Prisoners). It is not saying that they were in anything bad before. They are convincingly good at their roles. It keeps the agenda of a horror thriller in the front and remembers to focus on finding the root of the problem. ![]() Thankfully, there isn’t enough of these dialogues to make it unbearable to watch. Most of these dialogues are between our main character Rebecca (played by Teresa Palmer) and her boyfriend (played by Alexander DiPersia). Or it could most probably be lack of a better screenplay writer. Part of it makes us wonder if it was done deliberately to create a relaxed moment before amping up the intensity ten times more. It lingered between cringe-worthy, eye-rolling and laughing territory (and the Fantasia audience laughed a lot). It is weighed down by a rather generic back story and some dialogue that felt laughably (sometimes awkwardly) out of place. Not to mention whatever is haunting everyone is designed extremely well but you can see it in the trailer if that interests you or just go into this one fresh. Part of this effectiveness does contribute with knowing how to keep the audience wondering about the spirit entity even if the atmosphere does build but it becomes rather overused in the short run time especially the first two-thirds of the movie before heading into the wildly intense final third. While it does suffer from some horror movie troupes like the usage of the scary basement or predictably expecting what to happen next, it never lingers on those moments but uses it to create the atmosphere from an initial jump scare to create uneasiness to make the next unexpected move a little more effective. The music sits in the background with only moments where it teases us. ![]() He is smart and utilises all sorts of different lighting whether they are on, off or flickering. ![]() It builds a haunting atmosphere playing on the audience’s fear of the darkness. However, if the Lights Out short was any indication, Sandberg is fully capable of crafting an effective horror and he does. With the help of James Wan in the producer’s seat (among the many), there is a certain potential connected to it. Lights Out is Sandberg’s debut full feature film. Why is it here? What does it want? All these questions cast over Lights Out as it pans through its tight-knit and quick eight-one minutes run time. It highlights why this spirit follows this family as it breaks it up over and over again whether its driving the the mom to a deeper depression to the daughter moving out to the son not being able to sleep. However this time, the backstory is different. Changing the setting but using the same actress as in his short film, this is how Sandberg chooses to start his full feature, Lights Out. It appears as a shadow with elongated sharp fingers when the lights are out and disappears when the lights are on. Sandberg‘s 3-minute short film It is an atmospheric horror film that is brief but introduces us to the concept of his spirit that dwells in the darkness. Lights Out‘s premise started with director David F. Lights Out is a 2016 thriller about a woman who must unlock the terror behind her little brother’s experiences that once tested her sanity, bringing her face to face with a supernatural spirit attached to their mother.
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