If they could stop suggesting that Ari Aster film with the woman in the corner, that’d be great. I saw that shit in the theater and it was literally so dark, you couldn’t make out anything.
Like, it’s one thing if you could even see an outline, but my God it’s dark asf.
Hidden horror, or even knowing that the thing is there and coming after the protag is fantastic.
I think the argument is that even if you’re not consciously noticing it, your brain picks it up and that’s part of the unsettling feeling you get. Is that true? I don’t know. I was unsettled as hell watching Hereditary, but there’s a lot more unsettling content besides the quasi-noticeable woman in the corner of the ceiling.
I’m glad to see It Follows included in the essay though. Watching characters converse in the grass, in the sunlight, in a scenario that in almost all other horror movies would be a tension-relieving safe scene, until you notice another character, blurry and deep in the distance, walking robotically on a straight path toward the central characters, still gives me chills. It remains one of my favorite effects, and is a top-tier reason why I love horror movies even though I don’t love feeling tense or scared.
If they could stop suggesting that Ari Aster film with the woman in the corner, that’d be great. I saw that shit in the theater and it was literally so dark, you couldn’t make out anything.
Like, it’s one thing if you could even see an outline, but my God it’s dark asf.
Hidden horror, or even knowing that the thing is there and coming after the protag is fantastic.
I think the argument is that even if you’re not consciously noticing it, your brain picks it up and that’s part of the unsettling feeling you get. Is that true? I don’t know. I was unsettled as hell watching Hereditary, but there’s a lot more unsettling content besides the quasi-noticeable woman in the corner of the ceiling.
I’m glad to see It Follows included in the essay though. Watching characters converse in the grass, in the sunlight, in a scenario that in almost all other horror movies would be a tension-relieving safe scene, until you notice another character, blurry and deep in the distance, walking robotically on a straight path toward the central characters, still gives me chills. It remains one of my favorite effects, and is a top-tier reason why I love horror movies even though I don’t love feeling tense or scared.
Really depends on the calibration of the projector.