{"id":6567,"date":"2015-10-09T02:34:02","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T06:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smugfilm.com\/?p=6567"},"modified":"2015-10-28T22:32:04","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T02:32:04","slug":"johns-horror-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/johns-horror-9\/","title":{"rendered":"John D&#8217;Amico&#8217;s Horror on YouTube #9 &#8211; Lights Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6509\" style=\"border: 4px solid  #000000;\" src=\"http:\/\/smugfilm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/lightsout.jpg\" alt=\"lightsout\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FUQhNGEu2KA\" target=\"_blank\">Lights Out<\/a>\u00a0(2013) | Dir. Adam Shaw\u00a0| 3 min.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Every day in October, a recommendation from John D&#8217;Amico\u00a0of a horror\u00a0movie or TV episode available for free on YouTube. Enjoy:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The straight-to-internet horror short genre is a pretty young, but it really is a match made in heaven. As I\u2019ve said a few times, horror works very well in small doses. A great horror short is like a joke turned on its head\u2014set-up, mystery, and then an unexpected turn at the end. It\u2019s as old as time, but when you\u2019re on your computer at 2 AM and you can\u2019t sleep, these tight little sudden fiction horror shorts can dig right into you.<\/p>\n<p>This video is so quick to begin that it\u2019s not even worth summarizing, except to say that it&#8217;s\u00a0perfectly engineered to prey on that one ridiculous little fear rattling around the back of the mind of anyone\u00a0who lives alone. It&#8217;s as simple as could be, and almost unbearably tense, even though you know exactly how it\u2019s going to play out. Impeccably framed, impeccably paced, it\u2019s an object lesson in how to bug someone out as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lights Out - Who&#039;s There Film Challenge (2013)\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FUQhNGEu2KA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Editor&#8217;s Note: Not to be confused with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eSht2pHqv-s\" target=\"_blank\">this Light&#8217;s Out short film<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6509\" style=\"border: 4px solid  #000000;\" src=\"http:\/\/smugfilm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/lightsout.jpg\" alt=\"lightsout\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FUQhNGEu2KA\" target=\"_blank\">Lights Out<\/a>\u00a0(2013) | Dir. Adam Shaw\u00a0| 3 min.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Every day in October, a recommendation from John D&#8217;Amico\u00a0of a horror\u00a0movie or TV episode available for free on YouTube. Enjoy:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,1157,5100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allposts","category-johns-reviews","category-youtubehorror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6567"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6583,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6567\/revisions\/6583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}