Stellead
Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful
Bob
This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.
Dana
An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.
DogFilmCritic
I cant get enough of short horror films, and i saw the feature film based on this and frankly this was way better.My reasons being as a short the story goes better this mysterious entity is lurking in the safeness of your House and you can just see it when you turn off the lights. Soner or later the lights will come out and walking away outside being dark well you feel trapped. Again this Is why it works its short and scary it goes right to the point your are waiting for the next thing to happened with a few minutes left waiting for that twist to happened. Shorts are the best way to show new and fresh ideas in horror.
Zbigniew_Krycsiwiki
Vastly superior to the 2016 film based on it, this has a woman frightened by a demonic figure whenever the lights are turned out. This plays well with the childhood reaction to being scared, by merely pulling the covers up over one's head, and shivering and hiding (whatever is frightening you cannot possibly get you under that thin sheet, right?)That childlike innocence coming from a grown woman in this two- minutes- long short is amusing, and the creature haunting here is effectively creepy, and barely glimpsed, which creates a good balance of humour and horror, but at only two minutes forty two seconds in length, it's difficult to really get involved much with the character, or story.
Horst in Translation (filmreviews@web.de)
"Light Out" is a very short little horror movie from 2 years ago written and directed by David F. Sandberg starring Lotta Losten. The first minute basically takes place in the hallway, the second in the woman's bedroom. I thought the first half was great, the second was good too. To me, horror films are most effective when there is some kind of unseen danger here and I really liked the idea that you could only see the monster when the lights were out. And the way it was suddenly so close to her was very scary. The ending was nice too, more with how we knew something would happen than with when it actually did. Losten played it well and this was very nicely written. I hope Sandberg will get a chance to go into full feature territory at some point. His work here looks promising to me and I highly recommend it. Certainly will check out his other short films soon as well. Thumbs up.
preppy-3
A woman is going to bed. She turns off the light in the hallway but then sees a silhouette of...something in the dark. She turns back on the light but there's nothing there. She turns it off again and it appears again. Again on and off...but now it's closer.No dialogue in this one. Just VERY effective sound effects and some eerie music. The acting by the one person in the film is effective and it's very well-directed. All kidding aside--I slept with my bedside lamp on all night after watching this and I'm a huge horror fan that has seen hundreds of horror films! Quick, effective and very very scary.
