Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

Scanlines, by Todd Keisling

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madarauchiha's review

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adventurous dark mysterious reflective sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

✨🌠 my about / byf / CW info carrd: uchiha-madara 🌠✨

What I expected. Reddit nosleep creepypasta levels of writing exploiting a suicidal man's death, with all the gimmicks and tropes well retread, written mainly to say 'first!' when it comes to a horror story about this dead man.

What I got. A delve into midwestern small town early 90s 00s depression fueled ableism towards mental illness and toxic masculinity, bootstrap mentality, and oh yeah, suicide horror. IS that a genre, suicide horror? I guess it'd fall under paranormal. Ringu was suicide horror, to a degree, innit desu? Let's call it suicide horror, a sub sub sub to the etc degree genre of paranormal horror.

Anyways, yeah it deserves the 4 star rating [as of writing this]. It's creepy, horrific, graphic, there's depth to it so you're thinking about it long after finishing, and it hits all the neat horror tropes but in a well done way. If you can handle suicide and child death, give it a go.

major addiction, asphyxiation, child death, gore, gun violence, psychosis, suicide

medium alcoholism, cancer,  classism,  

minor addiction, car crash, drug use marijuana and prescription drugs,  gore, parental death, religion christianity?, religious bigotry, sexism, sexual content, usa 9/11 event, vomit

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