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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 6297452" data-attributes="member: 4937">That maybe true but I'd like to again point out that the fiend itself wasn't scary.  The fiend itself was simply gross.  In fact, you actually made the fiend something of a figure of pity.  The actual scary thing is the unknown thing that is torturing the fiend.   And if that other thing is also a fiend, I think it loses - it decompresses - the horror.  The viewers are relieved.  And honestly, the whole scene is probably more disturbing if the thing being tortured in that way isn't a fiend but is something more sympathetic that has been reduced to such a state.Let me simplify the point.  If it's a demon; it's already cliché.</blockquote>