Scare Me
- inventive
- intimate
Neutral, steady, measured horror / comedy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →During a power outage, two strangers tell scary stories. The more Fred and Fanny commit to their tales, the more the stories come to life in the dark of a Catskills cabin. The horrors of reality manifest when Fred confronts his ultimate fear: Fanny is the better storyteller.
Our read · Scare Me (2020) reads as a neutral, steady, inventive horror · comedy entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of Scare Me
What watching it is actually like.
“You want a playful horror comedy of two strangers swapping scary stories in a cabin.”
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The reading.
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