![]() As Hitchcock says, "There is no terror in the bang, only the anticipation of it," so lingering on a shot for just a little while longer might put your audience that much more on edge as they wait eagerly for the payoff. In Poltergeist's 2015 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 filmmakers didn't give the audience much to work with. 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 distance away from the shadowy figure that we never get to become voyeurs of the gruesome event that could potentially happen. In fact, the lack of POV shot appears to only be a setup for the jump scare that follows later on.Īs 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. But things take a turn for the worse when the pups archrival Humdinger breaks out of jail and teams up with Victoria Vance, a meteor-obsessed mad scientist, to steal the superpowers and turn. 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 location in the short film version's scene doesn't beat you over the head with horror elements it doesn't allow you to prepare yourself to become scared. ![]() Sandberg’s feature horror Lights Out from 2016, but did you know it originated as a short movie of the same name When I say. For the upcoming feature, that concept has been expanded to include several different characters, played by the likes of Teresa Palmer ( Warm Bodies) and Maria Bello ( A History Of Violence), being stalked by the same shadowy apparition but Sandberg's original vision is almost shocking in its simplicity.Now, shadows and darkness can certainly be effective for making the hair on your audience's neck stand up, but there's something to be said about setting a scene in a seemingly innocuous place, a place that is familiar and brightly lit. by Hannah Brown JYou may have seen David F. For the uninitiated, that concept involves a creepy figure that can only be seen in shadow when the lights go out. Sandberg, the director of the short, got the enviable chance to helm a feature version of his creation when prolific horror producer James Wan - the man behind such successful franchises as The Conjuring, Insidious, and Saw - saw the original Lights Out and loved its concept. And you can watch the first official Lights Out trailer now… if you dare.ĭavid F. That short film so memorably terrorized viewers when it was released three years ago that it has now had the honor of being turned into a feature-length film. The most remarkable part is that David Sandberg, in under 3 minutes, puts together. On the other end of the spectrum, there's the two-and-a-half minute short horror film Lights Out, which wastes no time in ratcheting up the tension with one location, one character - and one terrifying ghoul. The Lights Out short film is better than the full length feature film. The 15-minute-long story chronicled an African-American boy who journeys upstate from New York City with a mysterious duffle bag containing what appears to be devastating alien weapon. DC unveiled their newest feature film this weekend, Batman V Superman, with a patience-testing 2.5+ hour runtime to decidedly mixed results.
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