


Their Hocus Pocus house* is once again being offered on Airbnb. The Sanderson sisters have retuned to the home-sharing game.
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The full text is very much worth reading though, for any curious fans. A lot changed but a lot also stayed the same: /Q4VNce9hiPįor those seeking the TL DR version of what’s different about the ending, in Sandberg’s treatment, Sophie is instead mistakenly killed a police officer, and it’s heavily implied that her young son Martin has now absorbed the curse of Diana. Here’s the tweet in question:įor the curious, here's the original treatment I wrote for Lights Out. Now fans can find out and judge for themselves, as Sandberg recently took to Twitter to release his original treatment for Lights Out. At the time, Sandberg pushed back against that reading of the ending, and insisted that his original version was different.
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This upset many people when the movie first came out, as some interpreted the ending as a message that those with mental illness would be better off killing themselves. In the final film, mentally troubled mom Sophie (Maria Bello) commits suicide in order to save her family from the demonic spirit of Diana, whose existence is directly tied to Sophie’s. The majority of Sandberg’s plot was retained in the final draft, but one thing that was notably altered was the ending. While Sandberg didn’t ultimately get final script credit for the feature – that went to Final Destination 5 scribe Eric Heisserer – Sandberg did write up the original treatment for the movie. Sandberg, who wrote and directed the original short. Another big success both critically and financially this year was Lights Out.īased on a terrific short film that went viral a few years back, Lights Out was expanded to feature length by director David F. The Conjuring 2 managed to be a sequel almost as good as the terrifying original, and The Purge: Election Year was perhaps the series’ best entry to date. The Witch delighted fans of slow burn psychological horror, while films like The Shallows reinvigorated the survival horror sub-genre. All things considered, 2016 has been a pretty good year for theatrical horror.
