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“Oh my god, there’s something in the room…chairs!!” (No disrespect to Obsession or Backrooms, I just thought this was funny)
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A comic in 2 parts:
Old Horror Icons
A picture of Freddy Krueger, from the movie A Nightmare on Elm Street, with the caption: Melted Faced Killer with a Knife Hand
A picture of Pennywise, from the movie IT, with the caption: Creepy Clown Killer
Modern Horror Icons
A picture of a liminal office as seen in The Backrooms with the caption: A Room
A picture of a sad girl, Freaky Nikki from the movie Obsession, with the caption: A guy’s girlfriend
Documentaries aren’t usually made to be scary though, there are no jump scares and other tricks that horror movie makers employ. So while life can be truly horrendous, I can see why she can handle these documentaries.
Adding to this, the documentaries also include interviews with people saying “I thought they should look into this more and they didn’t”, or “Our department was really trying to solve this, and it just took awhile.” The implication that someone out there cares. It is less isolating than horror movies generally are, which tend to show how things went wrong usually because no one cared or no one knew anything was up. I guess the documentary is the natural sequel story - we couldn’t stop the bad thing from happening, maybe multiple times, but we are at least aware of it and trying to figure it out.
You said documentaries aren’t “usually” made to be scary, so you’re implying that there’s some documentaries out there that’s got jump scares and shit. It makes me want to see such a documentary.
Probably not jump scares, but scenes with actors that do employ tricks with lighting, music, practical effects, and other cinematic tools that increase tension.
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