What’s the scariest film you’ve ever watched?

If you try to think about any scary movie or story or whatever, what tends to be the scariest thing is the unknown.

Take, for instance, this short film that goes for only 2 and a half minutes. Watch before continuing.

So, what’s the deal with it? It’s creepy. Really creepy. But what’s mostly creepy is that we don’t know what is going on. Not to mention, the director Kris Straub’s use of old news weather report conventions make this eerily realistic as though this is a real thing that happened.

The interpretations you could go on with this little short film are endless. What is going on, What is happening outside, Why are messages being misconstrued and contradicted from the weather channel?

The long and short part that I want to get to about this is that the most terrifying things are the things that we don’t know much about. For example, the iconic Blair Witch Project is a greatly turned to horror film and yet we never see the Blair Witch itself. There is only uncertainty, conflict, paranoia and confusion.

That is what makes the Blair Witch Project so scary: we fear the unknown. The same can be said of Paranormal Activity, which terrified me for so long because you never saw the entity but it was always there. Not seeing, not knowing, being unable to decipher or understand things is the scariest thing and horror film makers, writers and storytellers have been exploiting this whole idea since forever.