The Evil Within leans towards the “graphic overload” end of the spectrum. Suspense, on the other hand, is something like Ti West’s House of the Devil-a slow, slow burn where the threat of something horrible causes more unease than the actual occurrence.īoth can be good. Graphic overload is something like the Saw series of films: You’re supposed to be repulsed by the horrific imagery on-screen, creating unease.
There are two primary paths to horror, which because I’m a journalist and not a scholar I’ll just call “graphic overload” and “suspense.” I wasn’t, and I don’t think it’s just because of the environment I was in (though I could be wrong). I’m not even going to bother spending a lot of time on whether or not you’ll be “scared” by The Evil Within because it’s a fool’s errand.
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