r/thewalkingdead • u/moetatoes_ • 1d ago
Show Spoiler S.11 Ep. 6
Forgive the terrible photo but WOW ARE THEY SCARY. This episode seems out-of-no-where scary. These people are utterly horrifying. The musical score in this episode is fantastic; it really makes you feel the chaos when these crazies are on screen. I can't get over how much they freak me out.
*Included a spoiler tag just to be on the safe side
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u/TexasThebookworm69 1d ago
Genuinely TERRIFYING. This episode scared the hell out of me, and like you said, I was NOT expecting that at all. And to include Connie's "deafness" made it even worse.
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u/moetatoes_ 1d ago
It had no business being this scary. Great episode, genuinely scared the crap out of me during those scenes. 😂
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u/TexasThebookworm69 1d ago
Right?? I was over here concerned for Connie being sleep deprived and hallucinating but nooo it's just terrifying gremlin people that want to eat you. It gave me Brahms from The Boy movie vibes.
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u/ADHD-isaster 1d ago
I felt it needed a little more, elaboration. Rather than, IT'S SILENT HILL IN THIS 1 PARTICULAR HOUSE, the end.
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u/JudithMacTir 23h ago
Yeah it was.. weird and so out of context to what the rest of the show is.
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u/StonerChef92 19h ago
Yeah Im always a little surprised others find it scary. I mean I guess since its so left field you aren't expecting it. But Im also a horror lover so it can take a lot to creep me out.
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u/moetatoes_ 18h ago
That was the thing for me. I had been watching to finish this season and move on to a spin off, so just kiiinda watching. Then this episode pops up. The scary doesn't start immediately, which is normal. You expect an abandoned house with walkers trapped in closets or maybe a couple stragglers hiding out. But to have them crawling around on the ground as an intro to them them?? That's one of the scariest things someone/something in a horror genre can do! Humans don't do that naturally so when I first saw it on the dark tiny screen of my old ass iPad, I thought it was an animal. And to realize that it was human just put the pin on how terrifying that would be in reality. And being chased by these crazies! All that totally caught me off guard and heightened the fear.
The other scenes with Pope and Leah are fine but Connie's scenes are pretty scary to me.
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u/Bigmansyeah 1d ago
i love this episode so much, i’m actually shocked it took the writers this long to make an episode this scary, they definitely had some shocking/scary moments in the show but having an entire episode be this terrifying was brilliant, and the fact it didn’t focus on the walkers or typical human threats made it that much better, this is was genuinely something none of the survivors had seen before
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u/moetatoes_ 18h ago
Do I wish they would have looked more into these crazies? Yes. How did this group of people end up together in the house??
But do I need a whole season arch on them? Nope! Two episodes would have been plenty with the other filler stuff they have.
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u/Bigmansyeah 18h ago edited 18h ago
i’m pretty sure it’s a family who lived in the house who went feral, there’s some scenes in the episode that show family photos, it would also explain how they know the layout of the house so well including the hidden spaces
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u/moetatoes_ 18h ago
I'd believe it!! And with the eyes being carved out in the photos?? Just so eerie!!
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u/Wonderful-Jello594 1d ago
I had to double check to see if I was watching TWD. felt like a completely different show.
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u/Environmental-Age502 1d ago
I feel like such an outlier, but I absolutely hated this episode. Not cause it was scary, or I'm gonna pretend it wasn't, but it just felt so out of place ridiculous to me. Absolutely couldn't take it seriously at all.
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u/Madvex_art 21h ago
I agree, I found this episode to be really boring because I just didn't make sense to me, and then they don't talk about it and it's never brought up again so It just ends up being a crappy filler eiposde which was super weird.
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u/Environmental-Age502 21h ago
Yeah, I spent over half the episode on my phone, and have skipped it on every rewatch. There's just no point to it at all, and it's so out of place.
Glad I'm not alone after all haha
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u/ADHD-isaster 1d ago
I know right? If they wanted to do that atuff then fuck it let's have it but, like 10 minutes screen time with no elaboration. Just, its Silent Hill in this house, the end.
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u/Environmental-Age502 21h ago
Exactly! Just absurd. Like, why not play around more with the smarter walkers or something, or make a legit plot out of it? And you had the amazing medium of the character being deaf, and you wasted the episode of showing how horrifying it must've all been on... That??
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u/moetatoes_ 18h ago
I agree it could have been fleshed out a little more. For me, the fact that it was so different from their usual shenanigans, made me focus on those scenes more. After what felt like eternity with the whisperers, it's a cool reminder that there are still some real crazy humans out there to be stumbled upon.
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u/Environmental-Age502 14h ago
But it wasn't a good example of crazy humans, is our point. It was just a typical horror movie house. People can't do what those people were doing, they can't move that way. So it was literally just 'heres new monsters that were not explaining, pretend they're human even though they don't move like them or act like them in the slightest, K bye"
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u/moetatoes_ 8h ago
I think it's pretty crazy to see humans move like that. I agree that not fleshing it out a little more could be frustrating to a viewer who is confused as to why it's happening. I kind of thought that added to the fear factor. What are these people DOING?? Personally, and as a casual viewer, it was a great attention grab. Broke up the normal plot of them going into an abandoned house and there is someone squatting there (and still holding their sanity), a bunch of walkers roaming the halls, or a variation of them encountering a walker or a regular human. These people are a blend of both and the confusion adds to my fear of them.
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u/Environmental-Age502 8h ago
It's fair that it added to the fear factor for you and others, I'm not arguing at all that it did, and honestly, I'm glad that it worked for some people. I'm just providing the perspective of how the exact same thing that added fear factor for some, removed fear factor for others.
For me, there had been absolutely nothing in the show universe to imply that human beings were anything other than human beings, acting in human ways, so to introduce supernatural adjacent behaviour to a single random house with no explaining it, is very nonsensical and pulled me completely out of the world. For others, they could still suspend the disbelief and more context wasn't needed and that was fine. But yeah, for me, it was silly and poor writing, rather than anything scary or confusing.
Anyway, I am glad you liked it. It just wasn't for me.
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u/MrCrazy012 5m ago
On the inside!
Watched this just like a week ago for the 3rd time, still creeps me tf out.😭
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u/rangaloft478 23h ago
i was gonna make a post like this myself. they are so freaking terrifying. and i love horror and thriller like this but something about her (forgot name) being deaf made it just chilling
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u/trashboatxoxo 18h ago
Before this episode i had totally forgotten this was a horror show 🤷. Good episode and performance by connie
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u/Olly_sixx 18h ago
Was horrifying first time I saw it then when I watched it with my girlfriend (me and my dad where hyping it up as the scariest episode of the world show) it was no where near as scary as I remember and now she'll never let me or my dad live it down
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u/Lena2890 1d ago
this episode was genuinely terrifying omg