I was already a teenager, but The Blair Witch Project made me quite scared of the forest after dark. Didn’t help that we lived right next to a completely overgrown property (it essentially was a forest… a whole family of foxes lived in there) with an old unused house in the middle of it.
Anyway… the psychological horror of that movie was intense. Jump scares I can get over, but the perceived fear of the actors and that ending in the cellar burned itself into my brain.
That setup was done so cleverly. They only dropped this in a tale in the beginning (that a child had to stand in the corner while the other child was being gutted alive) and then don’t mention it a single time for the next 60 minutes and then BOOM, your brain still connects these dots immediately and it hits far more than if they actually showed one of the people being gutted. Just that abstract fear of what looks like will likely happen … damn.
I was already a teenager, but The Blair Witch Project made me quite scared of the forest after dark. Didn’t help that we lived right next to a completely overgrown property (it essentially was a forest… a whole family of foxes lived in there) with an old unused house in the middle of it.
Anyway… the psychological horror of that movie was intense. Jump scares I can get over, but the perceived fear of the actors and that ending in the cellar burned itself into my brain.
If I enter a room and someone is facing the corner, I will die. Just writing that has me feeling terror.
That setup was done so cleverly. They only dropped this in a tale in the beginning (that a child had to stand in the corner while the other child was being gutted alive) and then don’t mention it a single time for the next 60 minutes and then BOOM, your brain still connects these dots immediately and it hits far more than if they actually showed one of the people being gutted. Just that abstract fear of what looks like will likely happen … damn.
I like the blair pimp project way more