Here's a writer's tip for making really creepy horror plots and settings.
Take something familiar and beloved, something that is intimately connected with the readers' happiest memories, then create a depiction of it that's just a little bit... wrong. And present it as if it were the real thing.
For example, imagine you're ten years old, you've just come home from school, and your mother is cooking in the kitchen. Except there's something a little strange in the way she greets you, something subtly wrong with how the words are strung together, and there's this buzzing tone in her voice, and as she looks up at you, her eyesockets are filled with the blank hexagonal walls of twin beehives, crawling with the busy golden bodies of the swarm...
"What's wrong, honey?"
Done correctly, this is the stuff of nightmares.
Oh, and in other, unrelated news, billionaire Larry Ellison's kid has an art film studio, and they decided to make a video game about growing up in the 90s.
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If Mixtape was a movie I wouldn't have been able to have so much fun doing this.