The YouTube video was mostly the same gag that was in the trailer, and I think they may have used the same actresses. As the credits rolled, I felt a bit of disappointment not in the short, but in the feature film. “Cool” I said, “you can show it to me when we get back to the house.” As soon as we walked through the door, my nephew gleefully started up his X-Box 360, went to YouTube, and we all sat down to watch the original short. They liked it, I liked it, and we had a great time talking about the effects, the plot, which of us jumped when, and the overall awesomeness of the film…then they mentioned the short that inspired it. The 2016 feature is a lot of fun, but Lights Out 2013 rules.So I went up to Alaska to visit my sister and her family, and although it was perhaps ill advised, I took my teenage niece and tween nephew to see Lights Out. Regardless of the fact that he's dropping one of the biggest tent pole movies of the year, we should never forget the original short that put him on the map. It's a well-deserved turn for the filmmaker, who has managed to stay humble in the wake of great success and has been outwardly grateful for those who helped him get where he is today. In just the last ten years, he made his Lights Out short, adapted it to a feature-length for a major studio, made an Annabelle film in Annabelle: Creation, then jumped into the world of comic book movies with Shazam!and Shazam!: Fury of the Gods. Sandberg went on to have one of the craziest first decades of any current filmmaker. There, Sandberg just lets the camera linger on the hallway as the sounds of footsteps and creaks keep you on the edge of your seat.Īll because of a little short film that he made in 2013, David F. You're never given room to let your ear perk up at the sound of something in the dark like you are in the short film's bedroom scene. to basically make a silent feature-length version of the Lights Out short, but if done right, it probably would have been better. It would be hard to convince a big studio like Warner Bros. Understandable, but the short film's lack of dialogue just leaves room for your mind to run and wonder where the supernatural entity might appear next. Not only that, the feature also has to make room for people to talk so, you know, it can have a story and all that. It's a case of overcompensating for scares that really aren't there. In the feature, every sound effect is so overblown and overproduced. The sound in the short film is also much more minimal, and in return, more effective.
#Lights out short turned into movie movie#
It's a bummer, but the rest of the movie still proves to be entertaining.
Right around the halfway point, you're left with hardly any mystery. It's a fantastic horror set piece! This all goes down the drain pretty quickly, with all of its supernatural elements becoming over-explained. She goes and gets her boss ( Billy Burke), who is then hunted and killed by the being. The film starts out with Esther (Lotta Lotsen playing a character eerily similar to hers in the short), a factory worker closing up shop who starts seeing the shape of a long-haired human in the shadows. Its opening scene is its best and is basically an elongated remake of the 2013 short film. In the case of Lights Out, the movie begins intriguingly because you don't know what's going on with this supernatural entity or where it came from. In these instances, what was once a simple, cut and dry premise, now has to be fleshed out across a much longer runtime. The film falters in what happens with many short-film-turned-feature situations.
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