And also, to play with, to just have certain light sources like Martin with the candle or Teresa with the UV light down in the basement, and to not light it apart from those lights. And that took some convincing of everyone to make that happen. So it was really important to have pitch-black darkness where any kind of evil could hide. "It was very important for me that we had true darkness, because in a lot of Hollywood movies, you just have a lot of blue light and that's supposed to represent darkness - but you still see everything. ON HOW TO MAKE SURE 'LIGHTS OUT' MEANS LIGHTS OUT So, I wrote like a treatment of what I wanted the story and the characters to be that Lawrence sent to James, and that got him on board and to maybe see that, okay, maybe this could be a feature after all." So he sent the short to James, and he had already seen it online actually and thought it was a really cool short - but he didn't know if there was enough there for a feature. "He knew James Wan because they had been talking about maybe doing something together. And one of the first producers who got in touch was Lawrence Grey, and it just seemed like he knew what he was talking about - and he was very passionate about making this into a feature. "I had to make a spreadsheet with everyone I talked to and what was said last just to keep track of it all. And it was just insane that a two-and-a-half minute short can get so much attention, you know? And all of a sudden all these people in Hollywood wanted to talk to us. "It just suddenly - after we had uploaded it to YouTube, a couple of months after that - just became this viral sensation and started getting millions of views. ON GOING VIRAL - THEN GETTING CALLS FROM HOLLYWOOD With the film currently screening in Australian cinemas, we chatted with Sandberg about coming up with an attention-grabbing premise, fielding the calls that made his dreams come true, and working with one of the modern greats of the genre. And one of the calls it sparked came from producer Lawrence Grey, who happened to know Saw, Insidious, The Conjuring, and Fast & Furious 7 director James Wan - and the rest, as they say is history.Īctually, the end result is an effective and unnerving movie that looks as spooky as it sounds, and sets actresses Teresa Palmer and Maria Bello against a shadowy figure that only appears when it's not so bright in a particular spot. And then he had a great idea, made a short that took off, and his phone started ringing.Īlso called Lights Out, that two-and-a-half-minute effort managed to turn everyone's childhood fears of something sinister lurking in the darkness into the kind of creepy fare most horror features can't master. Back in 2013, he was an aspiring director with a love of making scary flicks and a dream to hit the big time, just like plenty of others. Given the whirlwind couple of years the Swedish filmmaker has experienced, his reaction is completely understandable. Sandberg, the brains behind new 'be afraid of the dark' horror movie Lights Out. "It's one of those things where you keep pinching yourself," says director David F.
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