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“Oh my god, there’s something in the room…chairs!!” (No disrespect to Obsession or Backrooms, I just thought this was funny)

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A comic in 2 parts:

Old Horror Icons

A picture of Freddy Krueger, from the movie A Nightmare on Elm Street, with the caption: Melted Faced Killer with a Knife Hand

A picture of Pennywise, from the movie IT, with the caption: Creepy Clown Killer

Modern Horror Icons

A picture of a liminal office as seen in The Backrooms with the caption: A Room

A picture of a sad girl, Freaky Nikki from the movie Obsession, with the caption: A guy’s girlfriend

  • yermaw@sh.itjust.works
    67·
    10 days ago

    Slightly related, but my wife won’t watch horror films because ghosts and zombies and shit are too scary for her.

    She loves watching true-life documentaries about unsolved cases of people who just vanish and theres not even any evidence that they’re dead. Just gone. Which is infinitely scarier to me than any knife-clown or ghost-botherers

  • fisch@lemmy.world
    13·
    10 days ago

    Bruh, the creepy fascist pedo clown is president of the United States now. I don’t need this in my entertainment.

  • gigastasio@sh.itjust.works
    122·
    11 days ago

    Backrooms resonates with people because it represents the fear of the unknowable, the fear of being in the presence of something you can’t see or identify, or understand its intentions. It’s practically infinite, easy to get lost in, and is way less empty than it looks. Maybe you’re fine. Maybe you’re seconds away from death. You can’t know.

  • LittleBorat3@lemmy.world
    9·
    11 days ago

    Shit got a lot more real if you ask me.

    This new obsession movie (I still loved her despite her flaws) and these ari aster movies are true horror.

    Old horror is dead

  • tio_bira@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    9·
    9 days ago

    Each generation horror icons represent their fears.

    This generation is afraid to date and real estate bussines i guess…

  • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    91·
    11 days ago

    Is “a guy’s girlfriend” from Obsession? (Oh, I see the spoiler.) Also sorta applies to It Follows, though the stalker wasn’t anyone in particular; in fact, it could be “anyone”.

    How about “an adorable little girl who looks at you funny”? Samara from The Ring (RIP Daveigh), MEGAN, Arya Stark from Game of Thrones if you’re one of the dozens of people she killed… there have got to be more. Wednesday Addams was kind of a horror icon, or tried to be. It just seems there are a lot of creepy little kids in horror.

  • nullspace@lemmy.world
    5·
    10 days ago

    I think this is more of a comparison between different genres of horror and how slasher movies or franchise monsters aren’t as big now as they used to be. I’d say for slashers in particular it’s more difficult now because the camera resolutions are unforgiving and with things like video games depicting violent deaths in every way you can imagine, people have seen it all so there’s less novelty.

  • Ilixtze@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    10 days ago

    All the modern horror icons can be summarized as muh mental health.

    Except terrifier, which is just a reflection of weird degenerate clowns with chainsaws out to kill everybody; like Javier Milei and Elon Musk

  • Reborn_Mormon@lemmy.world
    33·
    10 days ago

    I would love to meet some guy’s girlfriend in a room. I would give her the d, all day and all night and everything is blue. Shit, sorry. Music in the background.