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<blockquote data-quote="Autumnal" data-source="post: 9551488" data-attributes="member: 6671663"><p>When I’m not engaged in the sort of technical argument where I distinguish between weird (the unnatural presence of something not normally there) and eerie (the unnatural absence of something normally present) and have citations to Mark Fischer and Michael Cisco, I tend to think these overlap a lot. </p><p></p><p>Darkness does of course have a ton of value! Though my personal favorite mode is the partial glimpse - the scene in the movie The Changeling with the red ball bouncing down stairs is one of my favoritest (another technical term, of course) ever, where there’s an unseen source for what’s clearly visible at hand. It’s part of what I love about Mike Flanagan’s style of direction, too. And the generally so-so found footage movie Grave Encounters has this one fantastic moment. The characters got themselves voluntarily locked into an old asylum overnight. As things heat up, they want out, but nobody’s coming til morning. They finally batter open the front doors, and face something that can’t be there. [ISPOILER]It’s another hallway stretching off to the distance, not the front lawn.[/ISPOILER] It can’t be there. But it gains credibility by having the same stark clear visibility as the lobby they want to leave. </p><p></p><p>This is obviously pretty much all taste. Or at least i sure don’t have a fearometer to call my own. I just get this way whenever people seem to me to be leaning too heavily on only one element in the palette of possibilities.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Autumnal, post: 9551488, member: 6671663"] When I’m not engaged in the sort of technical argument where I distinguish between weird (the unnatural presence of something not normally there) and eerie (the unnatural absence of something normally present) and have citations to Mark Fischer and Michael Cisco, I tend to think these overlap a lot. Darkness does of course have a ton of value! Though my personal favorite mode is the partial glimpse - the scene in the movie The Changeling with the red ball bouncing down stairs is one of my favoritest (another technical term, of course) ever, where there’s an unseen source for what’s clearly visible at hand. It’s part of what I love about Mike Flanagan’s style of direction, too. And the generally so-so found footage movie Grave Encounters has this one fantastic moment. The characters got themselves voluntarily locked into an old asylum overnight. As things heat up, they want out, but nobody’s coming til morning. They finally batter open the front doors, and face something that can’t be there. [ISPOILER]It’s another hallway stretching off to the distance, not the front lawn.[/ISPOILER] It can’t be there. But it gains credibility by having the same stark clear visibility as the lobby they want to leave. This is obviously pretty much all taste. Or at least i sure don’t have a fearometer to call my own. I just get this way whenever people seem to me to be leaning too heavily on only one element in the palette of possibilities. [/QUOTE]
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