I've been staring at this painting for a long time. It's incredibly haunting and terrifying to me, but it reminds me of something that really disturbed me about the remake of Amityville, disturbing because it played upon something incredibly honest and powerful. When the people leave and the ghost of that little girl cries, it's haunting and sad, how lonely and ugly she feels, trapped in a dark world that people don't understand, that people are afraid of, and how rageful it makes her feel to be in her situation. I think mental illness is like that. Because they need so badly to be loved and understood, but it's like interacting with a ghost...there are two different planes being operated on. I believe it's the loneliness, that raining feeling that comes from the inside, that tinges the existences of those entrapped by the forces between where genius and madness meet.