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Writer for @tornightfire and @tordotcom. they/them. Former weird shit desk, @bnscifi. Inquiries caiuscaligula@strangelibrary.com https://t.co/C0EtEmmcrf
Oct 16, 2023 32 tweets 4 min read
20 minutes into Dark Harvest and it's pretty much nothing but exposition. Did we suffer some collective amnesia in the roughly 40 years since the golden era of '80s nighttime chase thrillers and horror movies that meant we forgot how to make the kind of movie this should be? We have had:

- A voiceover
- A prologue sequence
- An "as you know" intro sequence expositing our main characters
- A dinner scene to introduce the interfamily conflict in the protagonist's household

How the fuck did an explicitly descriptive medium nail setup better than this?