Commentary

Bright lights, cotton candy, and joyful music aren’t supposed to feel threatening. Instead, carnivals and circuses are purposefully designed to overwhelm you with color and noise as they turn a local parking lot or a fairground into a temporary, childhood-inspired dream. And that’s precisely why carnivals and circuses make such a perfect horror setting. The

While humans aren’t born afraid of the dark, the vast majority of us tend to feel uneasy when we can’t see well. The darkness is the easiest way to remove vision. The reason behind this is simply evolutionary math. Less information means more uncertainty. For most of human history, nighttime meant greater vulnerability to predators,