See You Soon (2014) User Reviews

A glimpse of horror

[Rectangular_businessman · 6/10 · 21 April 2022]

One of the shortest shorts I have ever seen (It merely last 13 seconds)

It was effective, but it felt a bit random (What is the relation between the man in the photo with the ghost/monster/whatever?)

I guess the intention was to show how brief a horror film could be.

Got 14 seconds to spare?

[Pjtaylor-96-138044 · 6/10 · 7 December 2021]

How much can you do in 14 seconds? Well, 'See You Soon (2014)' does quite a bit. It manages to create a decent atmosphere, present a convincing special effect and deliver a relatively creepy scare. The final shot isn't perhaps as effective as it could have been and the second time we see the reflection is arguably a little redundant, but this is impressive filmmaking that manages to successfully frighten despite its insanely short length. 6/10.

Just okay.

[Short-films-over-everything · 6/10 · 18 April 2024]

There is not much to say about this film because it's only 14 seconds long but I will say I like the dark moody atmosphere of the film. The film does a good job of producing a creepy vibe even though not much happens. The film opens up with a woman sitting in her room looking at a photograph of her dead husband and she suddenly sees a dark creature figure in the reflection of the glass frame she's holding. When she looks behind her there is nothing there but when she looks back at the picture frame she still sees the creature in the frame. I will admit I like how that scene was shot, it was an interesting idea having the creature in the frame but being invisible behind her. That was well done and so was the jump scare at the end. The creature is very creepy-looking looking and it's a genuinely scary design. Overall I liked the film but this was way too short to leave a lasting impact on anyone. I like the concept of the creature in the reflection, but the film would have been more effective at 2 minutes or even 1 minute. But for a 14-second short film, it was okay and worth a watch.

Generic horror film, inferior to the duo's most other work

[Horst_In_Translation · 4/10 · 29 June 2017]

"See Your Soon" is a live action short film from 2014 and another one of the collaborations between writer and director David F. Sandberg and Swedish actress Lotta Losten. They made several really short films, but this one here at only 14 seconds has to be the very shortest of them all. We see a woman look at a picture, then turn around probably because she thinks she heard something and then look at the picture again while we see what it is she heard. okay, I must say i like some of Sandberg's work a lot, but this one here was ultimately very forgettable. Then again it is really difficult, maybe impossible to make a lasting impact at a runtime of under 15 seconds. So check it out if you like Sandberg as much as I do, but really don't expect too much. Quality-wise, even if it is by no means a failure, this is probably somewhere at the bottom of his body of work.

A Very Modern 'Genre' Horror Short

[Comic_Central · 5/10 · 3 June 2019]

"See you soon" is a short fourteen second horror film, directed by David F. Sandberg, starring his wife Lotta Losten. The film is about a woman who is alone in her bedroom, thinking of her now deceased husband, as she is haunted by a ghost, she sees in the door way.

I am a big fan of Sundberg's short films and am proud to say that I have seen all of them, or at the very least, most of them, however this is one of his weaker ones.

The cinematography was also very well done and it is clear that Sandberg not only has skill in his directing ability but also in his lighting ability. The desaturated colour scheme, merely helped to enhance what was already great.

The camera work was very well done and the panning shot from the woman to the door, back to the woman, was very smooth and worked well in keeping the immersion. The great idea of using close ups and medium close ups to capture the emotion of what was happening in the scene as well as to capture the fear worked effectively as well.

However, the downside to this is Lotta's acting. Lotta has proven herself to be a very skilled and promising actor in a lot of short films that she has been in. In this film, however, her acting seems very wooden and not very expressive, to what the scene and plot demanded of her. When she was supposed to be grieving, I felt that, but not in a way that was very unique or memorable, which was disappointing considering her great performance in the short film 'lights out'.

I also felt it was strange how she moved the picture frame, it didn't feel natural. This may have come down to poor directing choices or the fault of the actor. It felt very forced in order to move the plot along, and would have worked better if it was smoother and more natural.

One of the biggest problems with modern horror today is a sharp noise for a jump scare, this doesn't create effective jump scares and lets the immersion and fear of the scene be a lot less impacting. This is because rather than the scare making the audience feel fear it is merely the noise that makes them jump. This is present in this short film and just the presence of the ghost or monster being closer with maybe a throaty growl of some kind, that isn't loud enough to make the audience jump would have been more effective and warranted a better scare out of the audience. This is quite disappointing as for a fourteen second horror short the pacing of the jump scare was exceptional, but was let down by a convention of modern horror. A film that does jump scares well is "It Follows" (the arrival of a tall man scene) and the short film "Launder Man" (the ending scare). Some people may like this sort of jump scare, but it is just not for me, for the reasons that I explained.

The plot by itself is a unique and interesting concept, sadly weighed down by issues that are absent from the better of the works from both people involved.

Overall, the short film was quite average, with some factors weighing it down more than lifting it up, because of this reason this short film gets a 5/10.

the feeling after its end

[Kirpianuscus · 16 February 2018]

You see twice. for save the good impression about Sandberg short films. for understand. for discover the meaning. and nothing works. the only virtue - its 15 seconds time. its only sin - its 15 seconds time. because, the film has one error - it could not be a film by Sandberg. first - because it seems the end as a too easy and unfair trick. second - because something essential missing. not the last - because the character has not a precise statue and the man from picture could be anybody. but, sure, it is far to be a bad film. because...it is a Sandberg.