![]() You see it in Martin’s eyes and Rebecca’s screams. ![]() “They’re sitting in the ambulance, and we added the lights flickering to just show that, ‘Okay, maybe it isn’t over yet.’ To me, some people have sort of said, ‘Oh, it’s a happy ending she shoots herself and everyone’s happy.’ But I think it’s going to ruin them. “It’s like, ‘God, I hope people don’t do this,’” he continued, adding that they included a little something to the end to keep the story going. “They felt that Sophie was sort of sacrificing herself for her children and to save their lives, and if Diana just came back right after, then, you know, she’d done that for nothing.” He added, “But now it was this feeling of, ‘Oh, s**t.’ Even though people loved it, it could kind of be interpreted as… that suicide helped them, that it was the solution.” Test audiences hated it and thus they got rid of the second ending. READ MORE: Review: ‘Lights Out’ Is Too Dim To Make Its Ambitious Premise Really Shine “She came back one more time and they dealt with her once and for all.” “The movie actually went on for almost 10 more minutes where we find out that this didn’t get rid of Diana, you know, and now depression has consumed Martin instead because his mom’s suicide affected him that much,” he said. The ending was actually changed during the editing process and the director explained that there was an alternate ending where the movie kept going. So I wrote this treatment for something that was a bit more arthouse, where it was very much an allegory for depression.” ![]() To me, it’s the most terrifying thing there is. “And I had a friend who committed suicide. “When we were starting to talk about making a feature film out of ‘Lights Out,’ I figured I wanted to do something about depression, because I’ve suffered from depression for over a decade now,” explained Sandberg. While the film does deal with depression, Sandberg’s didn’t intend to have people see it that way. Weekend Box Office Takeaways: What’s Smarter Bet? Costly Franchise ‘Star Trek Beyond’ or Low-Budget Horror Flick ‘Lights Out’?
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