We’re back from Crypticon! We had a pretty great time, and we’re here to tell you about it. And Montoure has some selections from this year’s Seattle International Film Festival! All of which turns out to be a good thing, because the topic we had chosen for this episode turns out to be a little thin on the ground. It sure seemed like creepy orphans and orphanages were a staple of the horror genre, but we ended up having to kind of stretch our definitions to find enough to talk about ….
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Funnily enough, Black Waters of Echo’s Pond was on UK TV a few days before you posted this episode. I watched it, and … yeah…
I have had sleep paralysis happen to me, it was one of the most terrifying experiences of my life. I had a floating face over by my TV, and a slow, distorted deep male voice talking to me that I couldn’t understand the words. People are saying that The Nightmare isn’t a real documentary, but more of a mockumentary, though either way I am interested.
I can’t remember whether it’s the same in The Innocents, but in The Turn of the Screw they are orphans; the man responsible for them is their uncle.
I am also surprised that there aren’t as many horror films with this theme, I guess maybe it’s a subset of the ‘creepy children’ thing.