Sandberg uses as little CGI as possible, utilising instead candles and fluorescent lighting to enhance the scenes' mood, making the whole movie more organic and relatable to audiences. Then again, the movie is a longer adaptation of his own 3-minute short film which went viral, attracting the attention of horror master, Wan. Sandberg's first feature film, but the man knows his stuff behind the cameras. It is, after all, an everyday occurrence, we face darkness every day when the sun goes down.

'Lights Out' is a movie with a simple enough premise but it taps into a common fear shared by almost all humans, effectively making it a movie that will stay rooted in your memories long after you watch it. Produced by James Wan, whose 'The Conjuring 2' has only recently been scaring money out of audiences' pockets everywhere (read: it was a box office hit), anyone expecting only the best from the filmmaker won't walk out disappointed. Nyctophobia be warned, 'Lights Out' will increase your heightened sensitivity to the dark. Watch this if you liked: 'The Conjuring', 'The Conjuring 2'

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