![]() ![]() If people are looking for it he may have been asked about it sometime in the past 30 years. You can try asking him on social media, if anyone would know it would be him. The Chucky movie mentioned is considered equally if not more terrifying than the first. Maybe he knows it can’t be found and thought it was good and scary enough to take from. It’s most likely he thought of the same premise independently but if he was inspired by this it would not be far fetched given that Lights Out was unforgettable by those that watched in youth. It could be a coincidence but the movie Curse Of Chucky (the 5th movie and interestingly enough a soft series reboot) sounds like a very loose remake of this. I do wonder if Don Mancini, the creator of Child’s Play ever saw this or knows how to view. Sadly, if it is a TV movie pilot like it seems, chances are it will never see the light of day You are not the only person looking it seems as I've run into a lot of people trying (and failing) to find places to watch it Under "When Widows Weep" I found it on this site but with little information (30 minutes does not correlate with it being a TV movie, likely being the placeholder time for the site) but it adds that it aired at 21:00/9:00 pm Weirdly, it'll also come up as the last episode of the 1946 series of the same name under the name "When Widows Weep" released 20 years after the previous episode (1952 vs 1972) Date of release of the episode lines up with the previous dates, being January 15th 1972 ![]() This was a pilot for a proposed but unrealized TV series to be titled "Light Out!," based on the much earlier radio program of the same name." "A toymaker develops a method to create dolls that kill. O radio show) announced publicly that he had nothing to do with it." In fact, Oboler (who was then syndicating his The Devil and Mr. It’s the cinematic equivalent to a carnival funhouse: a bit scary when you’re traversing it, but utterly forgettable (and mildly regrettable) once it’s over."In 1972, NBC aired yet another TV incarnation of Lights Out, a TV movie pilot which was not well received. Lights Out has a few scary, funny moments and Bello and Palmer are both game, but the reliance on cheap shocks does the film no favors. There is a frail hanger with which the film attempts to drape some hazy theme about mental health issues on, but that is second to what amounts to an onslaught of increasingly ineffective jump scares. They all end up at Sophie’s house, trapped with the, um, lights out, armed with a hand-crank flashlight (ever a suspense builder), some preternaturally stable candles, and a black light. Sophie’s son Martin (Bateman) begins to be terrorized by the spirit, and reaches out for help to his estranged stepsister Rebecca (Palmer). ![]() But when the lights inevitably go out again, poof! she’s closer and about to grab your jugular. ![]() The conceit here is that there is a ghost, Diana (Vela-Bailey), haunting Sophie (Bello) that can only be seen – in shadowy silhouette – when the lights are out. Wan tapped Sandberg to flesh out his short of the same name into a feature, and while Lights Out has a clever gimmick of the fear of the dark that’s been a goldmine for scares since cinema immemorial, even at a lean 81 minutes, it wears out its welcome pretty quickly. Sandberg, whose unnerving, online shorts caught the attention of contemporary horror mogul James Wan (the Saw movies, the Insidious movies, the Conjuring movies, all future horror movies, and – most horrific of all – the upcoming Aquaman movie). If nothing else, Lights Out is a fairy tale Hollywood success story for Swedish director David F. ![]()
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