ThaGrandCow
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Originally posted by: Parrotheader
I remember this one. It was actually a very entertaining read (although it ate up a LOT more time than I was anticipating when I first started on it.) I would say it would make a good movie, but then again, this is the kind of tale that works best in story format where your imagination is allowed a little more latitude.
Movie wouldn't work... part of the horror effect is that you don't actually hear the scream.... It's described as something bone chilling, which is different to everyone. You don't see the hallucinations, so when you think about it you can almost imagine it happening in your own house. Notice the house description is very vague. Put all that into a movie, and it destroys a lot of the mental image. Plus the blair witch project worked because you never saw the witch. In the story here once he's hallucinating he does see stuff. Much more terrifying if you imagine what that is instead of some persons vision of what it could be. I've never been scared by the appearance of something I saw in a movie. What the costume designer thought was scary and what I thought was scary was completely different at the time.