{"id":8538,"date":"2022-05-21T21:22:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-22T03:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=8538"},"modified":"2022-05-21T21:22:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-22T03:22:00","slug":"scare-me-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=8538","title":{"rendered":"Scare Me (2020)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Apparently, both films named Scare Me<\/a> released in 2020, which makes it a lot harder to distinguish which one I’m talking about here than I’m used to. Even worse (although I suppose the title lends itself to this outcome), they’re both about the same thing, which is people telling each other scary stories. Worst of all, I have no idea whether I can distinguish this one from the other one by saying it’s the one that’s sort of funny in addition to being scary. …since I didn’t see the other one, you understand.<\/p>\n

IMDb says this is horror and comedy, but I disagree. Even though the stories are mostly not scary, it’s also mostly not played for laughs. There’s a ton of snark, and it is well-mixed with a lot of genre self-awareness, but it’s not a comedy. The characters, as they tell their stories to and with each other, cause the lines between imagination and reality to grow ever more blurry, and this is the source of most of the horror and<\/em> most of the humor… but not, you know, at the same time.<\/p>\n

Irony meter: while this is not the first movie I’ve heard mention the Bechdel test, I’m pretty sure it’s the first one which, having mentioned it, proceeds not to pass<\/em> it.<\/p>\n

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