Images of Film: The Terror of Candlelight

Here comes a candle to light you to bed,

Here comes the chopper to chop off your head.

Candles. In film, you can mince around for forty-five minutes, exploring the darkest corners of the heretofore-unknown family crypt and ferreting out mysteries without the damn things snuffing out on you.

There's a sense of tension and mystery that's created when a character wanders around an otherwise darkened environment by candlelight.

Really, the only thing that's certain is that the character is probably not going to like whatever she uncovers.

Or whatever chances upon her.

Even stationary candles hold the promise of menace, or at the very least of Occult Shenanigans. Either one produces the stuff that horror film dreams are made of.

Thank you to Uncle Lancifer of Kindertrauma and Neil of The Agitation of the Mind for tagging me for this particular meme! I think I am supposed to link to some other things and taint a bunch of you for participation, but I'm'a break that rule (not least of all because I think everyone on the web has already done this bit already).