I need not have worried if the Annabelle franchise would give director David F. Sandberg as much room to play as his original film Light’s Out, which also premiered at LAFF last summer. In Annabelle: Creation, it seems the relative limitations of a possessed doll only inspired him and screenwriter Gary Dauberman to push the […]
When I saw Lights Out at the Los Angeles Film Festival, I felt like I’d discovered a new voice in both horror and cinema in general. One month later, I got to sit down with director David F. Sandberg and his wife Lotta Losten, who appears in the film and developed the concept with her […]
Lights Out has a strong premise for a horror movie and executes scares like a horror master. If you saw the short on YouTube, director David F. Sandberg and screenwriter Eric Heisserer have honed that concept and elaborated on other ways in which the terror can manifest. Diana (Alicia Vela-Bailey) is a creature who only […]