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Creepy Basement
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Let's face it. The darkness is scary. Even if you aren't terrified of it by itself, it can sometimes give you a horrible feeling that you're Being Watched, because you just can't see if there's something there. Children everywhere feel nervous about the closet or the space under the bed, but while those little bits of darkness are unnerving, there is a place yet creepier. A room where the darkness is the color of pitch, with no little lights anywhere, where even standing still and waiting for your eyes to adjust doesn't help. That room, home of the really, really really scary dark, is the basement or cellar. Perhaps it's the fact that most basements are built into the ground, or how the dank, sparsely furnished ones seem horribly reminiscent of some kind of tomb or prison. Being cluttered with old junk, broken toys, dangling tools and a clanking furnace doesn't help. And those spiders that like to hang out in the cracks and corners spinning their sticky transparent webs probably don't help much. It should be noted that for a lot of people, this trope is Truth in Television. However, nothing impedes a house owner from averting the trope entirely by making the basement a clean, well-lit and light-hued living area, even with ground-level windows for natural illumination- and filled with cool stuff, from TVs to bars to pinball tables. Many bedrooms are done that way, in fact. See also Torture Cellar. If there's a monster locked down there, see Madwoman in the Attic or Room Full of Zombies. But there is no inherent connection between this trope and the Basement-Dweller; although it's possible for a Basement-Dweller to be creepy (especially if he's a Psychopathic Manchild or someone's uncle), there are many Basement Dwellers who are as pleasant as you could wish, and in general, the non-creepy characters live in a non-creepy basement. Examples: |
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