Slotherhouse

 The perfect Halloween doesn’t exi… wait, what?

  

For both comedy and horror, the key element is surprise.  We’re amused and/or scared by what we don’t expect.  In the case of horror, few things are scarier than when there is something that is supposed to be lovable or wholesome that is turned on its head.  That’s why there are so many horror movies about evil babies and clowns.

And what could seem *less* frightening than a sloth?

I actually have been menaced by any angry sloth on more than one occasion- it’s seriously the sort of thing that makes you rethink your life choices.  I was never in even the tiniest bit of danger, but having an animal like a sloth being threatening towards you is, in its own way, much more unsettling than being threatened by a more dangerous animal.

It just felt… unsettlingly wrong.