![]() We don’t know what this figure is, or why it’s preying on this particular person, or even who this particular person is, but that’s all beside the point. Part of what makes the first Lights Out such a success is the sense of mystery that permeates the imagery. This full-length expansion, the identically named Lights Out, takes this concept and stretches it past its limit, repeating the same basic jump-scare sequence and introducing a psychoanalytical framework that nullifies the urgent, primal fears felt in the original. The premise is simple, but it’s perfectly executed, tapping into some of our most instinctive fears-darkness, intruders, the unknown, our own minds-with remarkable brevity. She flips the switch up and down multiple times, squinting in the dark and never sure of what she’s seeing, until it’s too late. It centers on a woman alone in her apartment, and whenever she turns off the lights, a ghoulish figure appears before her in the darkness she flips the lights back on, and it disappears. Sandberg’s low-budget 2013 short “Lights Out” is deeply creepy yet so modestly scoped that it’s basically a horror haiku, a quick bite whose impressions linger long after its three-minute runtime.
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