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Historic Sweetheart Restaurant 35mm January 2019

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confessions booth in a rural church

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Fine Crop of Kitties (by LisaGenius)

Black Cat, 1896

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Dead Girls Don’t Lie, Katie Maria

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Leonard McCombe     Man Having His Hair Brushed by His Wife, Navajo Nation, Arizona     1948

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The Peanut Vendor is a stop-motion film produced in the year 1933 by  Dave Fleischer of Popeye and Betty Boop fame.  The Peanut Vendor stars a lanky-limbed money with bulging eyes who moves in rigid, creaking shivers around his environment.  This, along with the jittery film reel, static-filled music, and fuzzy image quality that are usual now for films created so long ago, all serve to subtly put many viewers into a sense of unease.

But why?

Generally speaking, the main reason that The Peanut Vendor is “creepy” because of something called the Uncanny Valley.  The Uncanny Valley is a psychological phenomenon that occurs when our brains react to something that is almost real, but is executed in a way that it is obviously not actually real.  Dummies, dolls, and some masks and media characters, also cause the Uncanny Valley effect on people who view them.

Due to exposure to horror media, many will also have a mind that has been “trained” in a way to be upset, afraid, or disgusted by depictions of staticy music and film, as well as by the image of anatomically grotesque or impossible creatures (such as those with improbably long, skinny limbs, and obscenely large bulging eyes).

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Dragan Bibin

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this is the most profoundly terrifying group of paintings i’ve ever seen.

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House in rural Russia

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