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Psychotherapist Katie Evans delves into the unsettling phenomenon of liminal spaces. Discover how the absence of defined elements and the freedom for our imagination to run wild make these places, like The Backrooms, a unique and potent source of modern horror.
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00:00when it comes to any kind of horror media if we're utilizing absence and eeriness it's always going
00:05to leave it incredibly open for us to put our own stuff into and so it's always going to allow
00:11for
00:11extra scares and extra fear and i think the internet world has opened that up a lot too
00:16with a lot of this coming from now sort of online law as opposed to folklore which is more monsters
00:22right so folklore had more of the kind of monster element to it now our monsters are a little
00:26different because the internet is this eerie place right it is in itself a bit of an absence and a
00:32bit of a questioning kind of thing particularly when it first came about so that in itself raises
00:38these interesting questions and so it's opened up this whole new i think draw towards these spaces
00:44that exist in between and we can put anything there we can get as creative as we like with those
00:51spaces
00:51that exist in between and how much psychological stuff we can get out of it and how far we can
00:57kind
00:57of push it so i think the great thing about liminal spaces and spaces in between is we can kind
01:03of do
01:04what we want and that's also probably the scarier part we're not told how to make it like told what
01:10to make of it or told how it works it's just there and that's where it gets really really scary
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