by JAMES S. KIM
Once upon a time, having a fear of the dark usually meant being afraid of what the darkness concealed. What could be lurking in the shadows? The more we try to not think about it, the more it creeps into our minds.
Of course, these days we don’t need torches and kindling. We have our smartphones with their brilliant AMOLED screens that we bury our faces in during every spare waking moment. That is, until the battery runs out, the Wi-fi signal blinks out, the data connection slows to a crawl, and, worst of all, the reception dies.
There are many of us who lived in the dark times before the age of the smartphone when our main sources of light came from the sun and light bulbs, so we know not to panic in those situations. AT&T throttling our data? We can deal with it. But there are many young people who can’t. Those who see the world through hashtags, likes and low-res selfies are blind when those are taken away from them.
Paul Gale Comedy’s video “Millenial Horror Story” looks at what terrifies twenty-somethings on Halloween. Directed by T.J. Misny and produced by Jay Parks, a Korean American film producer, the video is shot cleverly all in one take in a haunted house. Of course, the house isn’t really the scariest thing about the video. It’s how eerily accurate its portrayal of young people could be.
Watch the video below:
