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a technique used in movies and [videogames] (especially fps, first-person-shooters) to make the game or movie seem much scarier than it is -- this effect is achieved by making [the scene] way darker than it needs to be, thus cloaking the presence and movement of monsters who are lurking in the background

sometimes bright, randomly flashing or sparking lights are added to sections of the scene to further heighten the tension

the use of nightmarevision in [videogames] began with Quake and continues on today... the recent movie Cloverfield used lots of nightmarevision which made certain scenes eerier and scarier, but also helped the director/editor hide the cuts and transitions in the supposedly single-shot pseudo-handheld video sequences... further scariness was achieved by switching from total darkness to nightvision in one scene, allowing the actors to see a [little bit] in the total dark, thus making nightvision a special form of nightmarevision

a similar concept to nightmarevision is spookyvision, first used on the tv show South Park for one of their [Halloween] specials... spookyvision uses the visage of Barbra Streisand, rather than darkness, to enhance the scariness of scenes

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