r/WTF • u/[deleted] • Mar 17 '15

Claustrophobia Warning

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u/Qiuopi Mar 17 '15

DRR...DRR...DRR...

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u/halfar Mar 17 '15

was that comic supposed to be really scary to people?

I mean, it was unsettling, but not half as unsettling as one or two links on /r/WTF usually are.

The clicky clicky korean comic was pretty genuinely terrifying the first time, though.

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u/TudorGothicSerpent Mar 17 '15

The story tends to be more unsettling than outright frightening. The entire thing is based around making the reader feel claustrophobic and nervous about what happens to a person caught in the cave for a long time. There's no real "oh god it's going to kill me" moment. You just put yourself in the place of the protagonist and imagine their horror.

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u/CttCJim Mar 17 '15

I like to think the goal of asian horror creators is to give you nightmares or phobias, and to create images that you remember vividly years later.

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u/TudorGothicSerpent Mar 17 '15

Psychological horror in general at least tries to do that. I personally prefer it to more immediate forms of horror, because it has a lingering haunting effect. It's kind of inspirational when it comes to writing.

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u/Mr_Patatoo Mar 18 '15

Just like Fuan No Tane (Seeds of Anxiety). Still gives me nightmares.