Repellent Kopfkino instead horror mood

"Darkside Park 10 Lauter nice ladies" is the hitherto most revealing episode of the radio drama series to the small town of Porterville and their secret to the Dark Side Park. Unfortunately, it is also with one of the worse episodes of the series, and not only because individual action portions were very confusing John Beckmann, the author of the storyteller, formulated in the script, but also because it is me sometimes repulsive. Already with the synopsis of "Darkside Park 10 Lauter nice ladies" and at the latest after the first 20 minutes of staged reading should be clear that it does not concern the regular bouquet with chocolate box too familiar with the birthday wish. For this reason, the surprise effect of the result falls rather flat. However, I had to start back and think again, if I understand correctly what is being said or have not quite grasped the context, which is why I have one or the other track again listened to. This did not necessarily lead to deeper understanding. After the third repetition it was me but too stupid, so I continued to hear with verrunzelter forehead and several question marks in the face, the 10th episode was to aware after 20 minutes, as the elderly ladies actually ticking.

These initial confusion then also the confusion of various characters at the beginning of Twins "Darkside Park 10 Lauter nice ladies", for example, it was hard to tell them apart Kate, Amanda, Sophia and Dorothy. Yes, my thoughts went so far that the main character has a multiple personality disorder. This is in no case to the spokeswoman Louise Lunow, the slips with their smoky, elderly and warm voice in the role of Kate Harding. Especially in the friendly and rather more harmless scenes they can shine. However, Mrs Lunow weakens significantly in the extreme situations where the older ladies have psychological problems. It just needs more names from past episodes, a 'wow' factor á la "Oh that's that!" to create.

In addition to the lack of surprise, it lacks "Darkside Park 10 Lauter nice ladies" also to stress, after all, is relatively quickly clear what the supposedly nice ladies getting at. Only the way how they want to reach their destination, the listener remains unknown, which is why I was reminded of "Columbo" this episode: We know who the killer is, but you do not know how he's done it. Apparently John Beckmann has hoped that the road to results is interesting enough to create a good result. Unfortunately shows "Darkside Park 10 Lauter nice ladies" signs of mental cinema film of the Gore / Splatter / Tortureporn genre, why this episode has caused extreme discomfort in me. You ought to know actually rather exciting and use rich stories with scary atmosphere where you're never sure how it will end, until it then comes to an end. On the other hand as never before experienced by the listener in this episode as much information to the Darkside Park and Porterville, so for the first time the idea germinates in one that perhaps everything is not supernatural, as at the beginning of the series seemed.

Conclusion:
With "Dark Side Park 10 - Lauter nice ladies" tried the author John Beckmann other ways of doing things, as how it was used to from previous episodes. Instead of extreme tension and goose bumps, formed during this episode a repulsive Kopfkino, which can be the listening experience for the fan to a weak-Höralbtraum. We can only hope that it was the first and last episode of this kind.