![]() The way it's lit and the light and the dark really gives it a terrifying vibe." We have an incredible DP and then there's David and James Wan. "That's one of the reasons we knew the film was going to do really well. "The lighting was so beautiful," Bello said. It was more of a fight to keep it with as little light as possible."īello herself was impressed with the film's lighting on set. If there are big areas of black than anything could be hiding in there. ![]() ![]() People need to see what's going on.' I feel that it's scarier if you don't see everything in frame. "That was something that scared some people on the crew, like, 'We can't keep the movie this dark. "Really you need less light than you would normally need on a film set," Sanbderg said. Since Diana only appears in the dark, many of the film's sequences are filmed in very low light. "She's suffering from schizophrenia and it's unraveling throughout the film and you're not sure what it is about her friend Diana and how she fits into the picture." "I play Sophie who is the mother of the film, this beautiful, really dysfunctional family," Bello said. The creature in the dark has a name now, Diana, and she goes back to Rebecca's mother, played by Bello. The film stars Teresa Palmer as Rebecca, a woman faced with the same fear of the dark that plagued her as a child. There's a little bit that reflects on it and I think it eases the audience in and lets us know that we were doing something true to the spirit of the short." We thought it was really important because it's now nearly 150 million people have seen the short film, to give something back to the fans that love it so much. ![]() "Lotta, who stars in the short film, is our director David's wife. "The opening to the film has an aspect to it that isn't a recreation, but is definitely a tribute to it," Grey said. Why? She came to a tragic end of some sort the trailer indicates a shaky view of what looks like an electric chair - there’s an ominous-looking retro nurse fiddling with switches.Losten's scene is there for fans of the short, but Grey assured fans that it's not just the exact same scene as the short. After all, it’s always the cute little boys, isn’t it? This leads Rebecca to determine that there is a specter in her mother’s past, and that the spirit of this creepy, late young woman, Diana, is hanging onto the mortal plane, feeding off of people’s fear of, you know, the dark. Rebecca suspects that her little brother ( Annabelle’s Gabriel Bateman) is being pursued by a spirit. Lights Out - the full-length film - spends time exploring the relationship between lead Rebecca (Teresa Palmer, who also, incidentally, appears in the American Grudge 2) and her mentally unstable mother (Maria Bello). Yet one wonders how much mileage Sandberg can get out of this aesthetically grabbing visual gimmick, which seems to find its precedence in shadowy Japanese horror standards like Ju-on: The Grudge and Pulse. Sandberg’s movie is perhaps the most iconic horror short of the decade so far, but also likely the briefest its one-trick creepiness feels appropriate for the Creepypasta era. The film’s trajectory recalls producer Wan’s own ascendancy - Saw was originally an eight-minute short film - as well as the backstory for films like the Guillermo del Toro-produced Mama. The film resulted in a deal for a full-length adaptation, after racked up a cumulative 12 million-ish YouTube view count and some horror festival accolades. It’s a pretty indelible image.Īfter seeing the opening minute of the preview, you’ve essentially seen a retread of the beginning of the much-reposted two-and-a-half minute short film, directed by Sandberg. As she flips them on and off, the figure advances towards her. In the Lights Out trailer’s cold open, a woman glimpses a bony, contorted, female figure lurking in the dark corners of a textile factory whenever she turns off the lights. Wan’s attachment to the project, and the preview’s arresting opening, gives the film the air of being something outside of the normal blockbuster horror fare (see The Forest or The Boy for recent, willfully average examples). It opens this weekend in theaters everywhere. This year’s most terrifying movie preview - even, perhaps, over The Conjuring 2 - is probably that of Lights Out, a new film by Hollywood first-time director David Sandberg, and produced by The Conjuring’s own James Wan.
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