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Venusian Weasel posted:Yeah, that bullshit was basically kills the story. A creature duplicating your key and then trying it out is actually a really great concept for a spooky story, but the writer is just so in your face with stuff saying "hey, this thing is really scary!" that it kills any sense of dread that premise is able to build. It's all telling and no showing. It's just all so impersonal and distant that the creepiness barely comes across. If it was actually formatted as a spooky story with the Invader stalking the protagonist and trying to get into his house it could be really effective. But since it's just a laundry list that reads more like a crappy Monster Manual entry it just falls flat and becomes comical.
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What's the deal with Jeff the Killer? In the original story he isn't named and it's just a creepy grinning being staring at you at the foot of your bed telling you to go to sleep. Somehow this spun off into stories about a tormented teenage serial killer who kills people because he was bullied and/or the victim of an acid attack and there's like fifty thousand crappy indie horror games where he is the villain, all of them set in creepy abandoned buildings. Which to me is a lot less scary. Something unknown in the darkness telling you to sleep is a lot more creepy then something known hiding in an abandoned building stabbing people. FreudianSlippers has a new favorite as of 06:00 on Jul 17, 2015 |
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Jul 16, 2015 22:15
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Accordion Man posted:Sounds like the same thing that happened to Slenderman, started off creepy but then nerds on the Internet had to make a whole "mythos" out of it and ruin everything that made the character unnerving in the first place because they are all poo poo at writing. I'm also wondering where the heck the name " Jeff the Killer" came from. That's like the least scary name for any horror figure ever even by creepy pasta standards . It's like if Slenderman was called Lanky Dave or Dagon was Fish Dude.
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