![]() ![]() Like Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, Bonbon invokes the everyday sights and sounds of a certain place at a certain time to great effect. The horrors might be different but the cosy familiarity hits very close to home. The important part of that video is the statement: “Bonbon is a short horror story, about your childhood.” Clearly, no story can be about everybody's childhood, no matter how universal some experiences might seem, but this is a pretty good approximation of my own surroundings back in the day. And then I realised the monster was behind that door as well.īonbon, a short horror game that is out today, took me back to that night and others like it. ![]() ![]() I reached the landing, outside my room, looked around and wanted nothing more than to burst into my parents' room where nothing bad could happen. It felt safer to walk rather than to run, slowly sliding from beneath the blanket and treading through treacly air to the door, eyes still closed. My bed faced a window and I knew that if I looked, there'd be something outside the window, scratching at the glass. When I was a kid I once woke up so scared that I couldn't open my eyes.
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