Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="jian" data-source="post: 9856474" data-attributes="member: 78087">The way it covers actually quite a long period of time (five years or so?) with occasional long breaks is quite realistic in a certain sort of way. The vampire isn’t a one-month terror, he infiltrates an entire community and gains their trust without cheating (as in, without any obvious mind control powers) and that would take time, including at last a long fallow period where everyone just gets used to him. It makes the jump scares more scary, and the whole idea that the protagonists decide to accept him despite (in some cases) the evidence of their own eyes is both true to life and horrifying, as well as making them complicit in the betrayal of Mrs Greene and her community. It’s just a much better metaphor for how evil enters and becomes incorporated into a community and people’s lives than a short horror film. You’d definitely have to do it as a series.I loved every single member of the book group and their friendship, and how it develops over time - it’s genuine and sparkling. It reminds me of Sky Castle, a Korean drama about a group of families who come through something not entirely dissimilar (but not at all supernatural) in that a certain sort of evil infiltrates their lives and becomes overwhelming until they reject it, and the women at least are stronger and more united for it.</blockquote>