There Are Monsters
There Are Monsters is a short film about a quiet Canadian town where strange things are happening. It includes encounters with a Creepy Child hanging out in the main characters' backyard (the page image) and a very friendly convenience store clerk with bloody fingers and a Nightmare Face smile. Makes frequent use of Nothing Is Scarier and is considered by many to be High Octane Nightmare Fuel.
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The whole thing is available on YouTube. If you do check it out, please add to this page if possible.
Contains examples of:
- Body Snatcher: Or something.
- Breather Episode: More like a breather few minutes.
- Canada Eh: The setting. Averted insofar as lack of stereotypical Canadianisms such as "aboot", or the ubiquitous (and trope-title-inspiring) "eh?"
- Cheshire Cat Grin: In the scariest way possible.
- Cluster F Bomb: "Jesus fuck! Who the fuck are you!?"
- May also qualify as Narm.
- Creepy Child
- Infant Immortality: Subverted. It's implied that the kids who were messing around in the convenience store were killed/eaten/possessed/whatever.
- Jump Scare: And how!
- Nightmare Face: Twice, not counting the Cheshire Cat Grin face.
- Nothing Is Scarier: It's never made clear exactly what the monsters are doing to the humans they attack, which leaves us a nice blank spot to mentally fill with the worst shit we can imagine.
- POV Cam
- Title Drop: "I remember thinking, 'There are monsters. They are coming to get me.'"