The Blair Witch Project, Alan Wake And The Multiplicity Of Fear
Posted May 6, 2010 - By pklepek  Alan Wake And Fear  What are
you afraid of? I don't mean "oh, well, spiders creep me out."
No, I'm talking about the kind of fear that, when applied under
the right conditions, can psychologically cripple you. It's the
kind of fear one acutely remembers having as a child, back when
everything, it seemed, was absolutely real. Especially if an
adult said so. I'm a 25-year-old semi-adult who can't walk into
the woods in the dark because, years later, I can't seem to get
over my experience with the movie The Blair Witch Project.  Alan
Wake isn't helping.  Fear is a funny emotion. Who, honestly,
would purposely and repeatedly seek out something that terrifies
them? And yet I'm compelled, on a regular basis, to seek
entertainment that elicits such a response. I've since concluded
that there's nothing quite like being scared in a controlled
environment, like a movie or a video game. In the moment, the
horror is pure ad