| This is one of those movies that could give your child nightmares for weeks before you even knew they were watching it | Is it the temporary blindness or is it the uneasy deep feeling that someone, or rather something, is observing your every move? It is based on Sandberg's and features , who starred in the short |
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| Test audiences concluded that Sophie's sacrifice would have been in vain | " Accolades [ ] Award Category Subject Result Fright Meter Award Best Special Effects Lights Out Nominated Directors to Watch Won Sequel [ ] In July 2016, a week after the film's release, it was announced that and had greenlit a sequel |
Rebecca gets into an argument with Sophie when she realizes her mother is not taking her medication, so she takes Martin to her apartment.
19| He had originally shot a second ending to the film in which Martin becomes depressed and Diana comes back one more time before she is killed | That night, Rebecca is woken by the same shadowed woman that killed Paul |
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| Roeper, Richard July 21, 2016 | In that same month, was cast in the film as the mother of Bateman and Palmer's characters, alongside as the boyfriend of Palmer's character, as the stepfather of Palmer's character and father of Bateman's character, and Alicia Vela-Bailey as the main antagonist were also starring it |
She brings Martin home and recalls her own experience with Diana years ago when she was young.
| A agent questions Rebecca about Martin's living conditions | D'Alessandro, Anthony July 19, 2016 |
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| When you are all alone in a small dark room, what do you fear the most? Rebecca and her boyfriend Bret investigate the connection of Sophie with Diana and come up to a scary revelation about their past | Although Wan enjoyed the short, he was hesitant that it could be turned into a feature until Sandberg produced a treatment for the feature-length version |
After the short film's success, Sandberg announced a film adaptation based on his short film.
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