"It's a subculture within a subculture," the games journalist Rob Zacny told me, and he advised me to look away, likening the "creepy hive mind" at work to the GamerGate phenomenon, in the sense that it seemed to be driven by conflicted feelings about accommodating outsiders.
The raid in the warehouse was well done too, as was the scene where Mason found that dead child with the creepy biomechanical mind-control harness hanging off him.
The possibilities are endless, creepier as the mind wanders.
The company was founded by Kyle Cooper, who made his mark with those creepy, inside-the-mind-of-a-serial-killer titles for David Fincher's "Seven".
A dark waltz on record, tonight it morphs into something truly unsettlingly: Karen O and Miranda deliver ghostly harmonising on the closing couplet – "Didn't you ever have enough?" – calling to mind the creepy twins from The Shining.
IF the image of a caretaker brings to mind a creepy, solitary character from the pages of Stephen King or Harold Pinter's 1960 play, meet a new breed who travels the world fighting rodents, loose roof tiles, burst pipes and other harbingers of second-home apocalypses.
Charging $300 a night for a bed and a shower and a tiny plastic enema of shampoo when AirBnB will let you get the same, and more, for $50, so long as you don't mind the creepy thrill of living in a stranger's apartment.
Just bare in mind his creepy sexual tension will always be there on the surface.
'What sort of civil service have we inherited,' the nation wondered aloud, 'that it is populated with the sort of people who are too uptight to eat the skin of an apple?' It speaks to a certain creepy hygiene of the mind.
The Childhood of a Leader is structured around Prescott's tantrums: a conceit that might bring to mind Hitler's creepy diplomatic practice of pretending to be very angry, while not really being angry at all.
