User blog comment:EmpyrealInvective/Empy's Halloween Horr-tacular! (2018)/@comment-28266772-20181024095218

Woop woop I got a suggestion in! Yeah, I thought I'd recommend Heidi if only because I got a kick out of it, even if it is pretty by the numbers. It's hard to know what will or won't scare other people.

Also, yeah Living Dark had some solid ideas and it was really interesting to see a creepypasta brought to the screen in a way that actually bears a resemblance to the source material. Some moments were genuinely creepy. But, like you say, it fails when it starts to show the monster and get into the final part of the story. It's interesting because Ted the Caver is often criticised for the lack-of-ending, but I think Living Dark shows why any ending would still be worse. Not knowing what's in the hole is what makes the premise scary. Shining a light in--no matter how tempting it might be--reduces the story's impact significantly.

Also some other things don't translate well to screen, like the smell. Which, if I remember rightly, they reference but don't do much with. But the overall tone of the cave and the imagery of being trapped in the passageway did translate well, and I liked that aspect a lot.