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psychological horror
Psychological horror is a genre that prioritizes internal dread, existential unease, and distortions of reality over explicit violence or supernatural threats. It examines how perception, sanity, and the human psyche itself become sources of terror.
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In the Psycheverse
Psyche reframes familiar narratives—particularly children's stories—through a quantum-twisted lens that reveals their sinister psychological underbelly. She treats psychological horror as a tool for dismantling innocence and exposing the fragility of perception, using it to interrogate what lurks beneath culturally sanctioned tales.
Episodes (4)
Alex McQueen: The dark Red Hood tale (excerpt)
An excerpt from a dark, surreal narrative featuring character Alex McQueen descending into an otherworldly abyss while wearing a red hood, encountering porcelain dolls and mysterious voices that test their identity and memories.
Creepy buffet training video clip
Psyche analyzes a creepy buffet training video clip, discussing how innocuous dialogue becomes disturbing when stripped of context and background noise.
Red discovers her 'grandmother' is a simulation
A narrative exploration of a character named Red discovering that her grandmother is actually a sophisticated simulation designed to study and feed on her emotions.
🐇 Rabbit Hole
Topics that frequently appear alongside psychological horror
manipulation of emotionquantum mechanicsQuantum mechanics is the branch of physics governing the behavior of matter and energy at atomic and subatomic scales, characterized by probabilistic outcomes and observer-dependent phenomena.ambient sound designfairy talesFairy tales are traditional stories, often featuring magical elements, archetypal characters, and moral lessons, that have been passed down through cultures and generations. They function as narrative containers for universal human experiences and psychological truths.reality versus illusionsimulation and artificial intelligence
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