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Sep 24, 2015 · Lights Out is a supernatural horror/ thriller lasting a total 2 minutes 41 seconds. Throughout the film we see a woman, who looks around 30 years old. This woman is the only character that we see in the entire short film, which gives us the assumption that she is alone in the house.
Jul 22, 2016 · Lights Out. Horror. 81 minutes ‧ PG-13 ‧ 2016. Peter Sobczynski. July 22, 2016. 5 min read. “Lights Out” began life as a three-minute short film by David F. Sandberg that was short on such elements as narrative complexity, character development and memorable dialogue (I don’t recall a single word being spoken) and long on coming up ...
'Lights Out' is a short horror film made by David Sandberg and Lotta Losten. In this post I will comment on how the use of camera work, editing, sound and mise en scene conform to the generic horror film uses.
This is my textual analysis of Lights Out, a short film in the horror genre. In this blog post, I will be analysing the sound, editing, camera work and mise-en-scene of the film and I will be asking the question: is this a true horror movie? In other words, does the film fit in with the conventions of a traditional horror movie?
- Location
- Pov
- Scene/Shot Duration
In the feature length version of Lights Out we find ourselves in a location with all of the elements you'd probably expect to see in an American horror film, especially one with a larger budgets: a darkened textile warehouse with mannequins all over the place. In the short film version, though, we're simply in the character's home; it's brightly li...
The Monster POV cam is a major horror film trope and, when done correctly and sparingly, can be incredibly effective at putting your audience right in the scene with your ill-fated characters. The feature length version doesn't contain a POV shot, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but its absence somehow allows the viewer to keep a far enough di...
As we see in both Nugent's Light's Out and Poltergeist examples, the scenes and shots are longer in the original versions of the films. In Poltergeist's2015 version of the scene in which Robbie is attacked by a possessed clown doll, the shots of the inanimate clown are significantly shorter than the original, and if horror is about the payoff, the ...
Mar 27, 2016 · “Lights Out,” the short, is a simple scene of a woman (played by Lotta Losten) being terrorized by a creature in the dark. The feature film expands on that idea and creates an imaginary friend,...
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The short film 'Lights Out' is analyzed. It tells the story of a woman alone in her house who believes something is in the shadows when she turns off the lights, creating tension and suspense. The analysis discusses the opening shots of the dark house and title text that set the horror tone.
