With the 20th anniversary of Princess Diana's death approaching at the end of this month, Newsweek is republishing the story. I think her creature will transcend time and will be like a Freddy Krueger or a Jason.Newsweek published this story under the headline of "Horror in the Night" on September 8, 1997. Just the way she moved her hands and shoulders I think created an entire beast. Maria Bello, who portrays Sophie in the 2016 film, compared Diana to Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees saying "I think people at Comic-Con will be dressed up as Diana next year. And setting her apart from recent female villains like the titular Mama, the Insidious franchise’s “Bride in Black,” and the four-armed Myrtu from this year’s The Other Side of the Door, Diana was actually played, in a refreshing twist, by a female performer." Bathed in darkness throughout much of the movie, with only her piercing eyes illuminated, Diana is a horror villain who quite literally exists only in the dark, appearing when the lights are turned off and vanishing back into thin air when they’re turned on." "With her wild hair and impossibly long fingers, Diana cuts a silhouette that is, in and of itself, scarier than most movie monsters could ever wish to be, but it’s the unnerving performance of the actress tasked with bringing her to life that may have ensured the character goes on to become a franchise-starting horror icon. Sandberg’s debut feature Lights Out introduces a creepy new villain who goes by the name Diana, and if you had any trouble sleeping after the film, it’s damn sure because of her. "Exploiting our collective fear of the dark, David F. John Squires of Bloody Disgusting praised the character saying: Some have said that she'll become a staple in horror movie lore. When Diana attacks Rebecca in the basement, Sophie kills herself, causing Diana to disappear as her entire existence relied on the life of Sophie. Rebecca convinces her boyfriend to help her defeat the vengeful entity. After several close encounters with Diana, Sophie's daughter Rebecca realizes Diana is in control of her mother. She latched herself onto her friend Sophie, killing anyone trying to help or be with her. Doctors had begun performing experiments on Diana but killed her by overexposing her to light. It is revealed that she was a woman in a mental hospital with a serious skin condition that prevented her from being in any light. In the 2016 film Lights Out, Diana is a mysterious figure that attacks people in the dark. So let's have Alicia play Diana the whole time, and we can really turn her into this ferocious, animalistic creature almost.'" But when I met Alicia and she showed me what she could do, because she's a dancer and she has full control over her body, it was like, 'Oh, this is really awesome. In an interview, when asked about the casting of Diana, David said, ".I figured she would be pretty still, but once I met Alicia, we met Alicia just to have her as a stunt person for whoever would play Diana. When she grabs Bret, I had to think about, “If he uses his flashlight like this to bang on the handle, if she grabs him when he’s up here, then the flashlight is pointed backward, creating a silhouette so that she can actually grab him.” It was really hard to figure out exactly how to get her on film.” Diana was originally supposed to be more of a demonic presence, but James Wan suggested that she have a human background to have a relationship with Sophie and add to the connection to the family. He would draw her with a rim light on her, and I was like, “No, we can’t shoot it like that because that’s cheating.” So I had to do my own storyboards and really figure out how we could always keep her as a true silhouette. At first, I was working with a storyboard artist. I had to storyboard all of it just to make sure that she was truly a silhouette. When asked about how challenging it was to keep Diana in the dark he said, “Very challenging because I didn’t want to cheat. Personality Physical Appearance Backstory Development Conceptionĭavid said that his goal was to keep Diana’s appearance in the film as a silhouette.
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