The Bachelor finale's hunt for Colton Underwood played out like a horror movie

Vulture

"The first part of last night’s Bachelor finale was some of the scariest stuff the show has ever given us, assuming that by scary you mean 'literal horror-movie tropes' rather than 'contestants who are racist or so unhinged that it does seem like they could kill someone," says Kathryn VanArendonk. She adds: "Like so much of The Bachelor, the show’s sudden dive into horror tropes is a multilayered mess of emotion. The episode was edited to look truly scary on the surface; those images of dark roads, the shaky camera work, the backlit shot of a producer chasing Colton down the road — all of it was purposely pieced together to look more like The Blair Witch Project than a Bachelor finale. Once you recognize how mannered it all is though, it begins to seem very silly."

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