Review- Marwa Awadh

1. REVIEW
Plot
Genre
Setting
What I like about it?
Negative thoughts?
Whats it about?
Does it link to horror?
The way its edited
Whose in it
Sound
The short film I picked is called “Lights out” its short, quick,
and brilliant in a variety of ways. The genre of the film is
Horror and the setting is a house and a woman’s bedroom.
The main plot is how she is going to bed and is switching off
her bedroom lights about to head to bet but then she see’s a
black figure, because it’s the night the lady assumes she is
just seeing things and switches the lights on and off to
double check she therefore gets scared when she keeps
seeing the dark figure which eventually gets her. One thing I
liked about this movie was that is was realistic and jumpy so
we did not know what would happen throughout the film
creating tension and excitement towards the audience.

2. REVIEW
In the first scene the lady is walking out of her
bathroom into a corridor towards her bedroom
suggesting she is just about to go to bed. In this scene
everything seems normal just a lady going to bed on a
casual day.
In the second scene the lady switches off the lights of
the corridor but see’s something standing so she
switches the switch on and off to see whether she is
just imagining things or if the “dark creepy figure” is
really there. Tension increases slowly as she realises
there might actually be something in her home.

3. REVIEW
Her facial expressions suggest she is scared and she
switches the light back on at the figure disappears but
appears when switching off the lights which scares
her even more.

4. REVIEW
In the next scene she rushes into bed and closes her
eyes wide shut as if trying to block everything out as
she cuddles and hugs her blanket whilst scared.
These actions show how shes trying to make herself
believe that there is nothing there and that she is just
imagining things which aren’t actuallythere which
makes it worse as there is something. But what? The
tension increases gradually through the scene in her
bed.

5. REVIEW
She then hears something and hides under her
blanket.
Slowly she peaks her head out of the blanket as she
sees the light flickering and sees the plug pulled half
way by this “creepy dark figure”.

6. REVIEW
She then plugs it back in and hurrys back into her
bedafter looking around and seeing how everything
looks back to normal she looks around the room
slowly and as audience we are intrigued to see what

7. REVIEW
will happen next although it seems everything is back
to normal.

8. REVIEW
She then turns her head and the creepy figure is
besides her and it makes the audience jump, as we do
not expect the creepy face to pop out of nowhere.
Overallthe short horror movie was jumpy, as you did
not expect what would happen as it would happen
either quickly or slowly I think that’s one of the main
positives of the film as it succeeds in creating the
genre of horror. The sound increased the tension and
made a good effect in inducing the creepy horror in
the film.