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Inspired by the hushed daylight scares of John Carpenter’s Halloween and the dense textural noise of Harry Clarke’s illustrations that seem to cloak and conceal their subjects, I set about staging some unsettling figure-centric photographs of my own for The Kick-About No.91. Turns out it is easy to spook yourself, even when you know you’re the one taking the photographs. This is what director John Carpenter knows too; you don’t need much to elicit menace: all you need do is lurk.
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