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C04P12 – Tormented Dead
Ahhhh sometimes ya just gotta get a little spooky. It’s funny, I like to incorporate horror elements in a lot of my storytelling…but I can’t stand horror films!! My imagination is far to over-active, and my brain will latch onto the scariest part of any film and make it into a far more terrifying nightmare. The Village gave me nightmares. And it’s…not really a scary film. I DO like a film with good suspense, but I feel like most horror films rely on gore and shock value, rather than genuine tension. Maybe I’m just a wuss. I can deal, but not take, a bit of creepiness.
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*whines* Mother is frightening….
Whaaat? She’s just an undead abomination. With a bad case of skull face.
See, this one doesn’t creep me out at all. I’m much more vulnerable to psychological horror. If I see it, it doesn’t scare me. But if you make me *think* about it… that being said, The Village scared the shit out of me. Just because things with claws and pig faces do that.
MIZHA. STOP DOING DRUGS.
So I overplayed my cards by showing Naiome then? Ah well, something to keep in mind next time!
Nah, I just tend not to be scared by visual things. It is creepy. But thinking about Mizha’s dead mom singing her a fucked-up lullaby about her would-be rapist is way creepier.
I’m with Skysong here. Normal horror doesn’t creep me out at all. I sit there heckling the cast the whole movie– I’ve actually been banned from horror movie night with my friends because of this. But give me something like Amnesia or something where it’s very clear that the main character creates their own horror and I might be scared.
That being said, this particular page very nicely straddles that line. It’s great to have seen Mizha’s idealized version of her mother before so we can compare it to these nightmare-type visions.
I’m so excited you picked up on the contrasts between the idealized mother and this alternate side! Makes me giddy when a reader notices those connections.
I’m sure that your readers notice more than they ever tell you.
I mean, I got the pose too, but the different ‘versions’ of her mother Mizha’s got in that little brainpan of hers interested me a lot more.
Except when I snuck up on my roommate and played Naiome on her and she freaked out. That was fun.
I sense a theme with nightmare mothers in your work Robin. Just a little bit. And teeth. There’s the teeth too lately.
I find it kinda interesting that you specifically mention horror films, not horror the genre. Was it just the first thing that came to mind, or are they “extra bad” somehow?
Media. They make me curious.
Yeeeaaaah there’s a reason for that. Although it’s worth mentioning that this is Mizha’s internal mother manifestation, rather than a fully accurate version of Naiome in life.
As for horror films vs. the genre, I guess I feel like that’s the worse culprit for badly done horror. A lot of written work still gets it right, but a book can’t rely on orchestral stings to make you jump.
The image is all the more disturbing in that she is cradling Vekken’s body on the one hand in a protective, motherly manner, and on the other hand (literally and figuratively) in an almost sexual manner. Zombie-mother-sexual vibes; creepy indeed.
You have a REALLY good eye for the visual details. So exciting to see someone disassemble the image and notice those little body-language ques!
Driving home after the Village, I was thinking about it so intently, I almost hit a cow. It doesn’t get any less thought provoking with more thought.
I’m glad I’m not the only one that the film got to! All my other friends had a very “meh” response to it!
I didn’t think Vekken was hurt THAT badly already!
She is creepy though. Red eyes vs blue eyes!
Ahh, he’s just sleeping. I’m sure he’ll be fine! Naiome just might be…exaggerating a little.