{"id":3724,"date":"2019-10-12T06:00:28","date_gmt":"2019-10-12T10:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/?p=3724"},"modified":"2019-10-10T23:55:12","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T03:55:12","slug":"3724","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/2019\/10\/12\/3724\/","title":{"rendered":"DHFF 2019: Who Should Really Be \u201cThe Scared One?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Every day through October, the Department of Tangents brings you the Daily Horror Film Fest \u2013 one short horror film for every day of the month. It might be terrifying, it might be funny. It could be an homage classic monsters or something entirely new. Check back every morning for a new scare as we celebrate horror shorts! <\/em><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s Saturday and I\u2019m feeling artsy, so you get a black and white film with subtitles for today\u2019s entry. Specifically, \u201cL\u2019Epouvante,\u201d or \u201cThe Scared One,\u201d from directors Romain and Thibault Lafargue. <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user56505706\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Find them on Vimeo here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t be afraid,\u201d says dad. \u201cHe\u2019s here to protect us.\u201d Those are never consoling words at the beginning of a horror film. And that holds true again here. First, dad is kind of a jerk. And second, he\u2019s addressing his son regarding the scarecrow he build outside his window, with no crop in sight. Maybe dad really likes that tire, and the birds eat car parts where they live. <\/p>\n<p>Dad does manage to make something terrifying, just not to crows. And maybe it was there to protect the kid after all. <\/p>\n<p>But here\u2019s the main question I have about this short \u2013 who is really the scariest creature here? The son sleeps with a clown on a swing watching over his bed, has a \u201cguignol\u201d puppet theater in his bedroom, and apparently tacks his puppet victims on his wall as an example to the others. If there really is something threatening the house, let it come look in Junior\u2019s window. I bet you it decides the next house over is the easier mark. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/182370080\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/182370080\">L&#039;Epouvant&eacute; (The Scared One)<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user56505706\">Romain et Thibault Lafargue<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every day through October, the Department of Tangents brings you the Daily Horror Film Fest \u2013 one short horror film for every day&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1422,5,386],"tags":[2357,2421,2419,2420],"class_list":["post-3724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-horror-film-fest","category-horror","category-movies","tag-dhff-2019","tag-lepouvante","tag-romain-and-thibault-lafargue","tag-the-scared-one"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/The-Scared-One-copy.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s7lGwW-3724","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3724"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3728,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3724\/revisions\/3728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}