This is part one of a two-part article on how "horror," as an umbrella term, is generally quite vague and often misunderstood. I love watching Baertaffy stream. The guy plays one of my favorite videogames, The Darkest Dungeon (2016), like an absolute champ (actually he makes a lot of mistakes, and generally makes it a lot harder on himself, but is immensely fun to watch because of this). However, as fun as it is to watch him stream that game—he's very funny and has a good speaking voice—it's positively traumatic listening to him talk about horror movies. In this particular moment of this particular stream , Baertaffy states he used to hate horror movies and still doesn't really like them. He says he probably couldn't enjoy Alien (1979) because it would be too "dated" (while simultaneously drooling over The Darkest Dungeon , a present-day Lovecraft adaptation he's famous for streaming nonstop). It's baffling to me, especially when he...
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