The Minecraft movie’s Zombie and Skeleton are like my sleep paralysis demons come to life

Warner Bros. released two rather frightening Minecraft movie images, one showing the film’s take on Zombies and the other on Skeletons, and I wish they hadn’t. I get it. Zombies and skeletons are supposed to be scary, but not like this. Read more: The best video game movies of all time The biggest thing, I think, is the mouths. Minecraft Zombies don’t have ‘em, and it should probably have stayed that way. A horde of creepy green zombies chasing you across the plains at night just for the sport of it – no mouths mean they can’t eat you – is a frightening enough concept. The mouth on the Minecraft movie’s zombie is uncanny in a way like those bizarre dreams that start off like a scene out of real life and transform into something that’ll haunt you for days. It sits in a gray zone where it’s not completely stylized and just real-ish looking enough – far more unsettling than some gore-covered corpse shambling around. The skeleton is unnerving for a similar reason. Minecraft’s skeletons look completely neutral. J