![]() I’m told the movie’s extremely good, but I confess I’m in two minds about whether I want to watch it. Its fame was sufficient that New Line released a full-length horror movie based on it, again directed by Sandberg (and with Losten in a small role): Lights Out (2016), with Teresa Palmer, Gabriel Bateman, Alexander DiPersia and Billy Burke. Lights Out won a 2014 Fright Meter Award, was nominated for an iHorror Award and racked up a colossal number of hits on YouTube. And, lemme assure you, it doesn’t get any less scary with repeated watching! It’s still effective even when you know what’s going to happen. Yet this neat little shocker-just a couple of minutes long and completely free of dialogue-succeeded in scaring me more than I can remember being scared by any full-length horror movie. Īnd that’s basically all the story there is. So she tapes the light-switch firmly to the ON position, climbs into bed and tries to get some sleep.īut even pulling the bedclothes over her head can’t save her. ![]() A woman (Losten) is preparing for bed in her small apartment when she discovers she’s being haunted: in the half light of a darkened corridor she can catch glimpses of the naked figure of, seemingly, an adolescent girl (uncredited). What has the narrator been stroking? is the question James doesn’t need to ask.ĭavid Sandberg has produced here a ghost story of the same stark simplicity. It’s only after a while that he remembers he doesn’t have a dog any longer-his faithful old chum died a while ago.Īnd that’s the story. My favorite, which I can still remember clearly to this day (although, oddly, I can’t recall its title), has a man slouching in his comfy armchair and idly stroking his faithful old dog on the floor beside him as he reads. (Nowadays I’d regard that as a cliché, but it was new to me then.) Some of the most effective stories in the collection were among the simplest, tales stripped right down to the bare minimum. ![]() Aside from scaring myself near-senseless, I learnt something about the art of storytelling: that sometimes less is more. James in a single splurge-I was in bed with some minor illness. Many, many years ago I read the complete ghost stories of M.R. Sweden / 2½ minutes / color / David Sandberg Dir & Pr & Scr & Cine: David Sandberg Cast: Lotta Losten.
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