Chills, Thrills and Spills: A Horror Thread

Wasn't Night Film epistolary? (It's been a while, can't remember.) How does that work in audio?

 

@Lambda It has a lot of fake forum posts and news articles. The reader just reads them out, and 9/10 times it works perfectly. Most of the book is a first person story. It's absolutely fabulously narrated.

 

Because I love the intersection of humor and horror, I will share this compilation of "The Quiz Broadcast" from the Mitchell & Webb Show.

 

So since you guys mentioned Alantutorial, I checked it out and learned it's by the dude who made my favorite short, which I think I've linked here before but whatever, let's go again:



So no wonder I like it! Gonna watch "This House Has People In It" by the same people now.

 

oh man, This House Has People In It freaked me the hell out. I could see it being narm-tastic and cheesy, but it hit me in the lizard brain. The short was creepy enough, but then I dug into the ARG and it got worse. A++, would recommend.

 

Also this is a fascinating rundown on the above:

 

OMG



"Brace yourself, RING vs GRUDGE is on its way in a movie that will be entitled SADAKO vs KAYAKO, and will be directed by Koji Shiraishi (Grotesque). Expect it for June 2016."

 

ive started the black tapes, so far its.....interesting but not super scary? does it get scarier as time goes on?

 

It gets a bit scarier! Not ever really terrifying, though.

 

Me too! I really like them so far. I like Strand. He's an ass, but I get the impression he's not trying to be an ass. He's giving me socially awkward possible autistic vibes and i love it.

Also wtf with the unedited footage of a bear. I liked the explanation. It wasn't scary persay, but that may just be me and as a horror writer I'm /really/ hard to scare. Unless you trigger me with my phobia but that's slightly different.

 

It's less scary and more...unsettling for me. Which is the feeling I chase after the most, I think. I like being creeped out far more than being scared, because the heebies tend to linger.

 

Yesss, my favorite head-canon for Strand. Especially given some of the Black Tapes twitter posts where Alex tries to talk to Strand about pop culture and he's like "what."

 

Agreed. My favorite sort of horror is less slasher and more the inability to tell what was real and what was imagined. See Night Film, which is the best example of the I've come across in a really long time. Same with Stephen King's The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon. Did any of the supernatural stuff really happen? Or was it just because the characters were in a traumatic scenario and their senses were lying to them? We'll never know. I think it's my favorite because that's how I feel about magic in real life. Like I want it to be true and I think I've encountered some magic or supernatural things, but always in a situation just shy of being compelling evidence.

 

Yes! For me it's more about...like how perception is actually a paper thin concept, and how reality alters based on it. Like after watching footage of a bear, I tend to have this feeling of hyper-realism that goes all the way around and feels fake, like nothing I'm seeing is really real and at any moment I'll find another version of myself and we'll fucking duke it out. Nothing is creepier to me than the knowledge of everything I take for granted as being real and safe can suddenly and without warning violently shift.

 

I loved unedited footage of a bear, if only because it was just so completely unexplained. Well, that and the fact that it was a part of "This House has People in it" too, which is in my opinion even creepier and more fucked up. And has ARG elements which I am always all about.

Plus, the unedited footage family shows up in this house, in a picture, which I think is pretty cool always.

 

I've been trying to find a book someone recommended to me but all I have to go on is that "the main character is either a pathological liar or a werewolf"

 

@glitterchance ... there's a black tapes Twitter? 0: (goes to Twitter to check)

 

Is it Liar?

 

I think so, thank you so much!!

 

Outlast II is coming...