Talk:Shut That Damned Door/@comment-3541151-20150220224801

An incredible tale! Great storytelling, atmosphere that you can see and feel, and interesting mystery.This was just a good time, open. Scary mysteries at their best, close. Where do I begin, open-close?

Well open...

The build up and development rivaled the classic styles of R.L. Stine's Goosebumps. An already curiosly, frightening enviorment, with a scarier secret hidden within. A place of DARING, as if the house itself DARES you, close! Dares you to

figure it out. And while I won't spoil the story here, I will say that the ending kind of embodies the concept and is just as subtle as anything in the story. The relatable realism is tested and brought to frightening surrealism as with Candle Cove, but this time it's testing our fears with the mundane rituals of visiting an elderly relative, by exploiting this generations fear of the OLDSCHOOL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuxCIaczUa0

OH GOD, THE TERROR!

But honestly, the generation of the 2000's is young and the older generations rituals come across as foreign and you know what we say about dem foreigners...

It was a joke...

No, but seriously we fear difference because it seems WEIRD, even when what we fear is CLOSE to the basics we are familiar with. Amplifying the fear with the unknown, or the idea that there could be something to these differences, is played upon by this story. And it's ingeniously done.

The story is immersive, really takes you into this world, I'd have to nitpick if I could HONESTLY complain, and it's just a great example of Blacknumber1's praise for this month's nominations.

8/10 OPEN.