Kids are smart. They know there really is something lurking under the bed just a-waiting to grab their ankles and chow down on their flesh. They know behind that closet door—the one that always drifts open for no damned good reason—is a hideous, fanged-beast just a-watching for its moment to pounce. They know that’s not the wind turning in the eaves, or mice scurrying across the basement floor. No. It’s monsters!

Photographer Joshua Hoffine likes horror movies. He is a horror movie buff. Taking his inspiration from such horror tropes as the monster under the bed or the creature in the closet, Hoffine creates terrifying pictures of our deepest, darkest fears.

Hoffine was also inspired by reading bedtime stories to his daughters and works with his five daughters to produce his candy-colored nightmares.

He believes a horror story is “ultimately concerned with the imminence and randomness of death, and the implication that there is no certainty to existence.”

Horror tells us that our belief in security is delusional, and that the monsters are all around us.

His daughters enjoy working with their father on these nightmarish visions and are more interested in getting a free cookie than in being scared by the terrors being depicted around them.

Hoffine is currently compiling a book of his Horror Photography and more of his awesome work can be seen here.
 

 

 
More scary and disturbing family horror, after the jump….