This taps into the worst modern fear - losing a child. Plus the method that spreads modern myths - the phone. I have two stepdaughters so am very aware of how the phone spreads myth using Mandy different media such as the Slender Man phenomenon. Using technology in a way that excludes parents also brings a secrecy to the myth told - in this case the disappearance of Lucy Gallows. It is a story for and about children and breeds in their imagination. The history session with their teacher shows an adult perspective - trying to bring reason and research to the story, but it doesn’t seem to dispel the story.
This modernity coupled with local history and old fashioned ghost story kept me hooked. Even if the original message was a prank it has set off a chain of events that can’t be stopped.
This modernity coupled with local history and old fashioned ghost story kept me hooked. Even if the original message was a prank it has set off a chain of events that can’t be stopped.