What the corpus says about Lights Out (2.5-minute short and feature)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Lights Out (2.5-minute short and feature) and wants to know what to watch next.

Below is what people who love movies said on three podcasts (Blank Check, The Rewatchables, The Big Picture) about Lights Out (2.5-minute short and feature) and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:41:03 · David F. Sandberg (0.90)] Lights Out (2.5-minute short and feature) ↔ Annabelle: Creation · career · Sandberg moved from Lights Out straight to Annabelle: Creation, attached during Lights Out's post. · "during post on lights out, I'd already been attached to Annabelle Creation"
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:26:39 · David F. Sandberg (0.95)] David F. Sandberg ↔ Lights Out (2.5-minute short and feature) · craft · On his no-budget films Sandberg did everything himself, from the music to the visual effects and the editing. · "I was the one doing everything, you know, from the music to the visual effects and the editing."
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:15:18 · David F. Sandberg (0.95)] Lights Out (2.5-minute short and feature) · fun · The short went viral: 17,000 views, then 70,000 a minute later. · "we went to like Vimeo and to check the views and it was like 17,000"
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:16:59 · David F. Sandberg (0.95)] Lights Out (2.5-minute short and feature) · fun · Sandberg compares sudden Hollywood access to the warp zone in Super Mario Bros. · "I keep saying that it's like hitting the warp zone and Super Mario Brothers"
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:19:53 · David F. Sandberg (0.95)] Lights Out (2.5-minute short and feature) · fun · He had never been on a professional set before directing, and had to ask his first AD when to say action. · "I had to take my 1st AD aside and like ask him, like, so when do I say action?"
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:20:45 · David F. Sandberg (0.90)] Lights Out (2.5-minute short and feature) · fun · Crew friction on his first feature, resolved by showing he knew cameras. · "no, I actually know how cameras work"
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:22:01 · David F. Sandberg (0.95)] Lights Out (2.5-minute short and feature) · fun · Trade secret: schedules and budgets are guesswork, and you can ask the studio for an extra day. · "schedules and budgets in movies are guesswork, you know?"
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:39:48 · David F. Sandberg (0.90)] Lights Out (2.5-minute short and feature) · fun · Green lights are loose: the crew had the office and the big train before official approval. · "We had the big train, we had everything before we got our green lights."
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:29:53 · David F. Sandberg (0.95)] Annabelle: Creation ↔ Shazam! · theme · Sandberg liked that, like Annabelle: Creation, Shazam! sits in a shared universe but stands as its own story. · "even though it is a sequel in this part of the universe, it was a prequel with all new characters and like a new story"
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:23:14 · David F. Sandberg (0.95)] Annabelle: Creation ↔ Shazam! · craft · Sandberg brought back his Annabelle: Creation costume designer, who had not done a superhero suit before. · "costume designer, Leah Butler, who I worked with on Alba Creation"
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:30:12 · David F. Sandberg (0.95)] James ↔ Annabelle: Creation · craft · James felt Annabelle's first design looked too evil, so her features were softened. · "James actually felt that she was almost too obviously evil looking"
[speaker] David F. Sandberg · latest sketch, The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · Sandberg loves genre, popcorn movies, horror, comedy, and science fiction, and says he wants to make a good time at the movies. He is a gearhead about how cameras and effects work and has a strong filmic memory. He is self-effacing and openly doubtful about himself. · stances: There was no studio mandate on tone, and he liked making a movie that stands on its own; Casting for enthusiasm matters most; Spectacle is tedious to shoot; Wants a rest before deciding on Shazam 2
[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)

Recommend three to six films, and only films that appear in these lines. A series, a TV film, or a franchise counts too when a line recommends it or pairs it with Lights Out (2.5-minute short and feature); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Lights Out (2.5-minute short and feature) itself. For each one, give one short reason in your own words and say whose reason it is: the show, named exactly as the brackets name it, and the speaker when the line names one (an "unknown" speaker is just the show). If the lines are thin, say so plainly rather than stretching them.

Keep a contrast a contrast. When a line sets two films apart, the reason is how they differ; never turn it into a way they're alike. A line with ⇒ puts the source first and what drew on it second, and one marked "the maker said so" is still the host reporting it: say who said it, and never state an influence as fact.

You know only what's on these lines. Add no fact they don't state: not who directed a film, not what kind of film it is, not when it came out, unless a line says so. Say nothing about the store or how anything rents here.

Talk the way a clerk talks to a customer at the counter: plain text, titles written plainly with no asterisks or other markup, no headings, no lists of more than six, no JSON.