i’m not a fan of ghost stories, i really am not - what i am though, is a fan of a good fucking plot and this one has all the best ingredients to make a damn good story
because the real horror is not the ghosts but the crime we do to each other
and on that note some of my favorite storytelling stuffs as a writer - unreliable narrator as a horror trope. you think the aparition screaming in her ear was scary? nope!! it was the family gaslighting her into thinking she is mentally ill & locking her into the basement for a better half of the year. even her closest allies, the brother and brother’s wife is uncomfortable being around her. only the innocent niece genuinely loves her presence. let us not speak of that godforsaken father - found family!!! hell nah pricess you aint crazy and ghosts are real!!! i love the horror in six and cain’s face when they collectively realize the experience noa must have been subjected to to be so out of touch with reality - love how her “weakness” becomes her strengths as she tries to survive the increasingly convoluted murder plot - actually deranged & crazy & difficult to beat villain who is more messed up than any ghosts!! - i feel that the premise here is not that ghosts = bad, but ghosts = human and their character and motivate follows what they were like when they were still alive! although linda and garrett wants to be a good person because their loved ones were blackmailed by the psychotic serial killer now they had to commit heinous crimes! - i love the parallel between six and the young ghost who haunted the detective’s house. both of them died really young, but while six accepts his death and helps people and ghosts alike with his newfound power, the other dude just fuckin straight up terrorize noa - all in all; just be a good person and a good ghosts, and so many good and law abiding people and ghosts will help you in return!
i’m not a fan of ghost stories, i really am not - what i am though, is a fan of a good fucking plot and this one has all the best ingredients to make a damn good story
because the real horror is not the ghosts but the crime we do to each other
and on that note some of my favorite storytelling stuffs as a writer
- unreliable narrator as a horror trope. you think the aparition screaming in her ear was scary? nope!! it was the family gaslighting her into thinking she is mentally ill & locking her into the basement for a better half of the year. even her closest allies, the brother and brother’s wife is uncomfortable being around her. only the innocent niece genuinely loves her presence. let us not speak of that godforsaken father
- found family!!! hell nah pricess you aint crazy and ghosts are real!!! i love the horror in six and cain’s face when they collectively realize the experience noa must have been subjected to to be so out of touch with reality
- love how her “weakness” becomes her strengths as she tries to survive the increasingly convoluted murder plot
- actually deranged & crazy & difficult to beat villain who is more messed up than any ghosts!!
- i feel that the premise here is not that ghosts = bad, but ghosts = human and their character and motivate follows what they were like when they were still alive! although linda and garrett wants to be a good person because their loved ones were blackmailed by the psychotic serial killer now they had to commit heinous crimes!
- i love the parallel between six and the young ghost who haunted the detective’s house. both of them died really young, but while six accepts his death and helps people and ghosts alike with his newfound power, the other dude just fuckin straight up terrorize noa
- all in all; just be a good person and a good ghosts, and so many good and law abiding people and ghosts will help you in return!