![]() I’d always done everything by myself – all the technical aspects of film-making – so I’d never had to explain to people what I wanted to do. I had to ask the first assistant director when to say ‘action!’ because I didn’t know the procedures of a film set. And I hardly even knew what all the different people on set did. I’d never even been on a film set before, but all of a sudden I came to this new country and I was just supposed to be in charge of a movie production. I’d only ever worked on such a small scale in Sweden with really small amounts of money. “I mean, everything was pretty hard to be honest. What was the most challenging aspect of turning your short into a feature-length film? So then you have to turn the lights back on again just to check.” I’m sure a lot of people have experienced that same thing it’s based on: when you turn off the lights at night, you think you see something there in the shadows. “I think it’s the fear of the dark that’s so universal. ![]() Why do you think your original short film really captured people’s imaginations? Ahead of it arriving on DVD, Blu-Ray and home download, NME chats to Sandberg about Lights Out‘s success, his next film Annabelle 2, and the future of the horror movie genre. ![]() ![]() Yet it proved so popular online that the Swedish film-maker was whisked to Hollywood to turn it into a feature-length movie that grossed nearly $150 million (£120 million) this summer. Sandberg’s 2013 short about an evil entity that can only stalk you in the darkness, clocked in at under three minutes long.
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