“The Internet has changed the game forever and there is longstanding precedent for finding new ideas this way even before this latest wave of disruption,” said Darin Friedman, partner at the Beverly Hills entertainment firm Management 360. Lights Out iLK21 LayarKaca21 PG-13 Genre: Horror, Thriller Quality: HD Year: 2016 Duration: 81 Min 689 votes, average 6.2 out of 10 When Rebecca left home, she thought she left her childhood fears behind. Now, YouTube has become a go-to place for budding filmmakers to share short movies that previously wouldn’t have had the opportunity to reach a wide audience.

Popular films such as “Mama,” “Saw” and even the Oscar-nominated “Whiplash” got their starts as film shorts. The unexpected journey for “Lights Out” is a modern, digital twist on a well-established Hollywood practice.

In another example, director Fede Alvarez was discovered in 2009 after he posted a short film on YouTube and ended up making the 2013 “Evil Dead” remake. The story of David Sandberg’s discovery has parallels in the music industry, in which Justin Bieber was discovered via demos uploaded to YouTube. Ironically, “Lights Out” didn’t come from YouTube’s deep roster of social-media gurus but from an unknown Swedish director working in his apartment with no budget.

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