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Interesting connection here to modern creepy settings leaning on liminal spaces and run-down early 90s stuff in analog horror. The new scary settings are run d

Interesting connection here to modern creepy settings leaning on liminal spaces and run-down early 90s stuff in analog horror. The new scary settings are run down Chuck E. Cheese’s and empty office buildings.

bee_rider 2y ago
Yeah. Malls are another good one, although that seems to be a bit of a boom and bust field or something… and we’ve already had plenty of zombie movies set in malls. Office building are an interesting one because, of course, a ton of people can imagine working in an office building (having done so). Small colleges recently had a rough time of things, and also could be a place that is likely to generate a horror script writer, I bet we’ll get a good college horror story.
amiga386 2y ago
e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Nights_at_Freddy%27s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Nights_at_Freddy%27s and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Backrooms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Backrooms ? Personally I liked https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_(video_game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_(video_game) whose setting was largely inspired by imagining what goes on inside the windowless skyscraper at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33_Thomas_Street https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33_Thomas_Street
- parpfish 2y ago
  exactly. control was amazing but had never really connected it to backrooms, but it makes sense. that final set piece synced up to the song was one of the best things i've experienced in a video game. i didn't know it was explicitly inspired by that building, for some reason i kept thinking of this brutalist beauty that houses the FBI (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Edgar_Hoover_Building https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Edgar_Hoover_Building)
twic 2y ago
Perhaps this is what you were alluding to, but immensely popular survival horror video game Five Nights at Freddy's is set in a thinly veiled Chuck E. Cheese.

bee_rider 2y ago

Yeah. Malls are another good one, although that seems to be a bit of a boom and bust field or something… and we’ve already had plenty of zombie movies set in malls. Office building are an interesting one because, of course, a ton of people can imagine working in an office building (having done so). Small colleges recently had a rough time of things, and also could be a place that is likely to generate a horror script writer, I bet we’ll get a good college horror story.

amiga386 2y ago

e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Nights_at_Freddy%27s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Nights_at_Freddy%27s and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Backrooms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Backrooms ? Personally I liked https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_(video_game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_(video_game) whose setting was largely inspired by imagining what goes on inside the windowless skyscraper at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33_Thomas_Street https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33_Thomas_Street

parpfish 2y ago
exactly. control was amazing but had never really connected it to backrooms, but it makes sense. that final set piece synced up to the song was one of the best things i've experienced in a video game. i didn't know it was explicitly inspired by that building, for some reason i kept thinking of this brutalist beauty that houses the FBI (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Edgar_Hoover_Building https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Edgar_Hoover_Building)

twic 2y ago

Perhaps this is what you were alluding to, but immensely popular survival horror video game Five Nights at Freddy's is set in a thinly veiled Chuck E. Cheese.