You might not understand right away, but the feeling is there. When you see it, you know something is off about it. This tech was used in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story to create a younger Princess Leia after actress Carrie Fisher had passed away. Another more recent example of this is the process known as “ deepfaking, ” where machine learning and neural networks help recreate or replace one person’s face with another, even in some cases the deceased. It’s so close to reality but our brains know it isn’t and there’s a disconnect. It’s the idea that when something is almost human, but not quite, like an android, we start to feel revulsion. Uncanny valley, on the other hand, is kind of the opposite. We’re meant to sympathize with the aliens, but it’s also a struggle because of their appearance. Films like District 9 have delved into this, with the humanoid “prawn” aliens that are subject to discrimination with direct parallels to the apartheid. To help give us an emotional tie to them, cartoons and animations will give a variety of creatures including insects huge, puppy-dog like eyes, and other more human features. Obviously, you can guess the emotions an ape is going through, via facial expressions and body language-but what’s going on in a spider’s head? It’s incomprehensible. It’s why we feel more empathy toward a chimpanzee than a spider. It’s been researched that the more inhuman something is, the less we can relate to it. Two of my favorite types of horror are the fear of the unknown and the uncanny valley. I honestly think the way this story is told would work quite well as a podcast, so I might have to check it out someday.īefore we get into the meat of the Left/Right game’s narrative, there are a few concepts I’d like to explore that come into play.

Thompson also played my favorite character in Annihilation, which I’ve written about before. Strange coincidence that this and the last Creepypasta I covered went on to audio format, but podcasts are extremely popular these days and lend themselves well to horror, so maybe not so surprising. Like Borrasca, Left/Right also has now been adapted into a podcast, produced by and starring Tessa Thompson. The Left/Right game was originally posted to Reddit in late 2017, and grew to have a dedicated fanbase. And if you have any stories you’d like me to cover in the future, please let me know! Welcome to the Creepypasta Corner! If this is your first time here, definitely give my previous articles on Mother Horse Eyes and Borrasca a peek.

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