josephine Pineconey

Channel Zero: Butcher's Block for @pscentral event 27: scenery

Channel Zero | S2:EP.06

Take The Last Train To Deadsville: I have a tendency to relate all mundane experience back to books, movies, comics, and television series. If you travel around the holidays -- particularly by rail -- then you can surely relate to the Season Two episode "The Last Car" from "Tales From The Darkside," one of my favorite shows growing up. I don't travel well -- I don't like the loss of control over my environment -- and this installment about a young college girl traveling home via the most unsettlingly dilapidated train depot on human record is a perfect manifestation of that dread. The state of being in an enclosed space with strange (and potentially threatening) strangers, the sense of temporal dislocation, the fear that you've somehow lost your way and will never find it again -- it's all perfectly realized here. There isn't even a conventional monster or villain outside of the Spectre of Death itself, and there doesn't need to be. The heroine's all-consuming existential horror as she can only succumb to her fate is enough.