Can I just say how much I LOVE the horror in Lacey Games?
I’m just gonna start of with the stalker from Wardrobe (I’m not gonna show a pic because that face FUCKED ME UP for like 2 WEEKS). I love how Ghosttundra doesn’t do the basic distorted face monster stuff, but a realistic face of some fat guy with huge pupils who reminds me of the Ooga booga guy from Spooky Month, and that alone already puts you on edge.
And the execution of that face is also terrifying. The way he hides in shadows all over the place is so creepy but so realistic and really makes you feel trapped and that he could be anywhere. When you’re dressing Lacey up for her picnic and let her outside, for a first-time viewer, you don’t see the stalker hiding in the bushes until he shows up again watching outside her window. The contrast between HIM and Lacey’s cartoony art style is just so unsettling too.
And the rest of the series is horrifying. In Diner, the entire time Lacey has her emotional breakdown with putting all her trauma and her uncle into a meal is so gross and so sad at the same time. And when she goes to serve the customers, the switch between the cartoony style and the hyper realistic imagery, alongside the chewing and slurping sounds in the background, makes that scene all the more disgusting.
That’s all I wanted to say right now, I’m so tired 😴