![]() Very few movies in this often average, if not flat out disappointing, genre have seem to be able to do it well, but Lights Out nails it. It has that that very unique, and seemingly difficult to achieve blend of jump scares and cheeky fun. The movie shares more in common with the better entries in the Nightmare On Elm Street franchise than it does with any other paranormal horror movie. Lights Out has done a terrific job of occupying that space that was inexplicably empty. At the rate that Hollywood churns out horror movies, you would think somebody would have made a good movie at some point prior to now that had to do purely with us being afraid of the dark. Honestly, it is just astonishing a movie like this wasn't made sooner. The answer is by not over complicating it and just trying to do two very simple things scare you and have fun while doing it. Anyone who saw that short probably had a reasonable question in mind about how the simple concept of a figure appearing when the lights are turned off could be stretched to a full movie. That turned out to be a pretty good idea. and James Wan, so they decided to give Sandberg a shot at turning his terrific and terrifying short into a feature. That seemed to catch the attention of Warner Bros. ![]() ![]() It played very simply and very effectively on our natural human fear of the dark in a very brilliant way. A couple of years ago, a short movie, also named Lights Out, started making the rounds at festivals and eventually online. ![]()
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