Fantastic!

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Lights Out (2013)*** (out of 4)Effective horror short from David F. Sandberg would be the bases for his feature length version from 2016. Basically a woman walks into her apartment and when she turns the lights off she sees a figure. When she turns the lights back on it's gone. Each time she turns the lights off the figure reappears. Obviously the suspense comes from the director building up how much closer the figure gets to the woman and for the most part this worked quite well. It clocks in at less than three minutes so the film obviously doesn't run along too long but it certainly makes an impression and especially the ending. Horror fans should enjoy this.

For me, "Lights Out" was the most disappointing horror film of 2016. I found it terribly dull, with clichéd characters, predictable jump-scares and a repetitive plot that felt way too stretched in the worst possible manner...Honestly, I wish I had seen the short film which inspired that movie before, because it was much better in every single aspect. I guess that the brevity of the short helped a lot to avoid everything that made the movie so bad (Like the flat and clichéd characters, the bad dialogue, the boring exposition, the pointless filler scenes and the cringe worthy resolution) but the truth is that "Lights Out" worked much better as a short film, going directly to the point in a quite effective way. And the final jump-scare that closes this short film was honestly far better done than anything from the feature-length version, which just feels redundant and unnecessary by comparison.7/10

"Light Out" is a very short little horror movie from 2 years ago written and directed by David F. Sandberg starring Lotta Losten. The first minute basically takes place in the hallway, the second in the woman's bedroom. I thought the first half was great, the second was good too. To me, horror films are most effective when there is some kind of unseen danger here and I really liked the idea that you could only see the monster when the lights were out. And the way it was suddenly so close to her was very scary. The ending was nice too, more with how we knew something would happen than with when it actually did. Losten played it well and this was very nicely written. I hope Sandberg will get a chance to go into full feature territory at some point. His work here looks promising to me and I highly recommend it. Certainly will check out his other short films soon as well. Thumbs up.

A woman is about to go to bed when she notices something very weird and more than a little disturbing: whenever she turns out the hallway light, she can see the silhouette of a figure standing at the end of the hall, but when she turns the light back on, there is no-one there. The final time she turns out the light, the freaky figure has moved a lot closer. Taking no chances, the woman tapes the switch in the on position and gets into bed, but is terrified to hear strange noises in the hallway, and to see the light go out…There's no shortage of horror shorts on YouTube that use their brief running time to creep out the viewer before attempting to give them a coronary; Lights Out uses this well-worn format (providing not one, but two potential heart attack moments), but still proves very effective thanks to skillful direction by David F. Sandberg, who wrings every last ounce of possible tension from his tale, and a great central performance from the actress playing the unfortunate victim of the supernatural creature. Lights Out might be predictable stuff—one knows full well how the film is going to end—but it does its job well, effortlessly scaring the bejeezuz out of the viewer as expected.7.5 out of 10, rounded up to 8 for making my work colleague almost soil himself with fright. The big wuss!