Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs Discussion Topic Part 1

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This monsters are not scary because they looks like clichée.
Big bizarre monsters are not scary because they are unrealistic. I think they are laughable. Scary are monsters like real animals or some kind of human similar. For example the suitors in Justine, the infected or even the dogs in Penumbra, because they look plausible and real.

Just because a monster looks unrealistic to you doesn't mean it's not horrifying; you're equating 'real' to what you know, which is a lazy and unfortunate practice many of us do with recognizing its sense of ignorance. We live under very precise circumstances to which provided us the the genetic diversity we know now; given such a limited biological pallet, can't you comprehend that some things may be beyond what you've so far seen?

Take jellyfish, for example; people were all kinds of freaked out when introduced to the stygian, frameless blobs with electric appendages and luminescent tissue. Or elephants? They pick shit up with their long-ass nose, and hear shit with the giant, flap-like ears on the side of their bloated heads!

The reason you find the Infected scary is the same reason I find the Grunts terrifying: They're a perversion of nature. The nature as we see it. The nature we've developed for a billion years to see as we do -- with a sense of order and control; understanding. When something strays from this, it frightens us. When something comes from a completely different road. . . to ours, it horrifies us.

Nyarlathotep, mother-fucker.