Lights Out

Lights Out (2014)

You shouldn't go to sleep tonight.

A woman prepares for bed, but realizes that something may be lurking in the shadows.

Date of release
2014-05-10
TMDB
7.3 / 10 (411)
Runtime
3m
Genres
Horror
Director
David F. Sandberg

Casting

Interesting facts

Lights Out is a 2013 Swedish supernatural horror short film directed, written, produced, shot, and scored by David F. Sandberg and starring Sandberg's wife Lotta Losten. The film was released online on 30 December 2013 on both Vimeo and YouTube. The short film was the basis of an eponymous 2016 film adaptation, also directed by Sandberg.

Production

The film had practically no budget as it involved only Sandberg and Losten. The film involved two lights and two rooms. In particular, he used a Blackmagic cinema camera with a Tokina 11-16 lens, a Zoom H4N with a Røde NTG1 microphone, a paper lantern from IKEA, a 375-watt photo bulb, a Chinese knockoff redhead light from eBay, a Manfrotto tripod, a homemade dolly with PVC pipe, a piece of shelving also from IKEA, and skate wheels.

The visual effects of having the ghost appear and disappear were mostly done by using a split-screen technique. In an interview with The A.V. Club about the 2016 feature-length adaptation, which used the same technique, Sandberg said, "Whenever she's in frame with another character, it's basically just a split screen. So you shoot it with her and without her.

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