The central conceit – a ghoul you can only see in the dark – is smart, but the only bumps in the night will be the sounds of viewers nodding off

Nonetheless, Lights Out is successful enough in what must have been its main goal, namely giving audiences the creeps.

The short that inspired it packs more frights into its 3+ minutes of running time. At the root of all fears lies the dread of the…

Lights Out has been made with a certain degree of style—enough to make you want to see what Sandberg might be capable of with a better screenplay.

David Sandberg's box-office hit delivers the scares with style and economy

As kids, most of us will go through a stage in which we are afraid of the dark. It’s part of human DNA, seemingly hardwired in our subconscious: stay away from the dark, because there could be danger. David F. Sandberg‘s “Lights Out” plays with a fear of the dark. The director surely knows that […]

Swedish filmmaker David F. Sandberg makes an impressive feature debut with this spooky, less-is-more expansion of his short that landed him this first Hollywood...

Terrific short padded to feature length has only a few minutes of good scares

Taut, terrifying horror film Lights Out is out in cinemas this week. Empire Online has the verdict.

Bare bones horror film gets its fair share of scares, but they don’t last once the lights are up.