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Is this about ww2 or am I just hyperfixating
One of my favourite genres of supernatural horror media might be described as bear-poking horror.
Basically, it’s horror media where the supernatural threat is a known quantity. Everybody – or at least everybody who’s involved – knows what it is and what it does, and there’s a specific, known, easily avoided act that will incur its wrath. All that’s necessary for nobody to get eaten is for nobody to do that thing. Typically there isn’t even any benefit to doing the thing, so there’s literally no reason to do it.
However, in spite of all that, absolutely everyone is going to die, because some fucker went and poked the bear.
Why, oh why did they poke the bear.