How comfortable are you with ambiguity in horror?
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How comfortable are you with ambiguity in horror?
One thing I've noticed is that there's a spectrum when it comes to comfort levels with ambiguity as a plot device in horror. Some people prefer the very ambiguous, creeping, growing dread of films such as Witch and Hereditary while others prefer the explicit, in-your-face, "I'm going to kill you right now with this knife I'm holding in my hand"-sort of unambiguous terror like in slasher films. I fall almost completely on the side of the former; I don't want to see what the monster looks like or even know if there's really a monster there at all, I just want to be afraid that there could be a monster and believe it's probably horrible, if so. What about you?
I write dread-inducing stories inspired by H.P. Lovecraft and The Twilight Zone.
"That Feeling When You Know You're Doomed" https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07S3Z6LK8
"That Feeling When You Know You're Doomed" https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07S3Z6LK8