After imagining toys have rich inner lives, it was logical that Pixar would give complex emotions to another childhood trope:
the monsters hiding in your closet.
Carmack explained that he found some of the complaints of Doom 3's brand of horror to be «completely valid,» saying that the «contrived nature of
monsters hiding in a closet» and the extreme darkness were two things that caused the company to cancel its game Darkness and begin production of Rage.
Not exact matches
It's like a small scared child
in a dark room claiming there is some
monster out there
in the darkness so you turn on the lights to show him there is no
monster, but he just get's more scared claiming the
monster must have
hid in the
closet or under the bed or anywhere you havn't yet looked, and when you do look and show them nothing is there it doesn't make them relieved, they get more upset because they now believe the
monster is super fast or invisible or can teleport, because they know it's there, they can just feel it!
Doing a full room
monster check can also reassure the child that there is nothing
hiding under the bed or
in the
closet.
You may also want to show your child there are no
monsters under the bed or
hiding in the
closet.
Your preschooler may worry that
monsters are
hiding in the
closet or under her bed.
Not all
monsters lurk
in the
closet,
hide under the bed, or go bump
in the night;
in fact, they are all around us.
Continuing with its streak of magical creations, Pixar invents an involving and fascinating world of
monsters who
hid in closets and under beds.
For many, the scariest things are not
monsters in the
closet or
hiding under the bed.
She's learned that real
monsters don't always
hide under the bed or
in the
closet.