Just before his demise, however, he was on the phone with his young son, Martin Survives, while the factory owner ( Billy Burke) winds up meeting a gruesome end. Gets a lot closer when they go back out again. Taking place in a factory after hours, instead of an anonymous apartment, it begins as anĮmployee (Lotta Losten, who starred in the short) sees a mysterious femaleįigure in the dark that disappears whenever the lights come back on, and who suddenly ![]() With a sequence designed to replicate the original short. Where something pops out of nowhere and scares the bejeezus out ofĮveryone-they're deployed in the service of a story that has little to offer otherwise, and begin to lose their effectivenessĪs was the case with “When a Stranger Calls,” “Lights Out” begins ![]() While Sandberg is good at creating “BOO!” moments-those instant shocks Ways to expand on the original shorts that were clever, dramatically Putting it in such esteemed genre company as the original “When a StrangerĬalls” and “The Babadook.” In the cases of those works, the filmmakers found Sandberg was given a chance to expand the short into a full-length feature, Sandberg that was short on such elements as narrative complexity, characterĭevelopment and memorable dialogue (I don’t recall a single word being spoken) and long on coming up with more big jolts than would seem possible in such a short running time. ![]() “Lights Out” began life as a three-minute short film by David F.
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