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Really messes with your head by taking the most mundane things and twisting them into pure horror. It's like, you're watching and suddenly you realize that something as ordinary as a CVS enema set is now a symbol of pure dread. It's not that these things are terrifying on their own, but that's what makes them so creepy-they're stuff you could find in any regular home, and that's what makes the horror feel so close to home. It's this weird blend of the everyday and the unsettling, like the whole world around you is slowly becoming a nightmare.

The film takes what we see all the time and flips it into something sinister, showing how the mundane can be just as terrifying as any monster or creepy visual. It's not about the big moments, it's the creeping unease that builds up when the ordinary starts to feel... wrong. This is a film about obsession and madness, but it gets you not with jump-scares or gore, but by making you question everything that seems familiar. The true horror is how the everyday can suddenly feel like it's falling apart.

I do security response for a living. It is amazing how this guy was doing the same sorts of things almost 30 years ago as we do today. The technology has changed but the thought process hasn't. The way he hooked a logic analyzer to a tty, and set it to page him when it saw a certain word was essentially an early network intrusion detection system.

The hackers were similar too. They set up shop on a series of vulnerable intermediary machines (Berkley, MITRE) to mask their activities from their actual target (military).

I'm just really glad my job has never required an oscilloscope to measure round trip times for packets.