Internet has become a new platform to present ideas and
arts, especially for filmmakers. Lights Out was originally a short film back in
2013. The concept is great and pretty scary if you ask me. It was directed by
David F. Sandberg. The short is only less than 3 minutes; it starred the
director’s own wife, Lotta Losten. Sandberg and his wife had to move to
Hollywood in order to get the interest of investors and the time to get this
movie in production. They were really strugling. Another interesting fact that
Sandberg had never been in a film set before; he had to ask his first assistant
when to say “Action.”
According to Wikipedia, the budget was only about $5 million
and made 20 times more than that.
Movie critics like to embrace smart-simple things. This film
proved to be one of it. This film is like James Wan’s low-budget
horror-thriller film; shot indoors – not in public places; few cast and only revolves
around a family problem; cheap but effective effects with some fancy jump scares.
It had a simple story pattern and still felt fresh. Although it wasn’t as good
as Wan’s.
But all and all, I didn’t really enjoy it, I like the short
film better than the feature film. The short film only embraced the idea. The
idea evolved into a feature length movie, which wasn’t a good thing. The story
didn’t live up well beside the idea. The story made the special idea into an
ordinary idea.
The verdict:
A simple horror movie, but didn’t evolved well from its
original creation.
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