I can't remember where I first heard this, but somebody said that, in this scene, "BOB strictly obeys the rules of the camera's frame, while completely ignoring the rules of the room."
That always stuck with me. I think it's a big element of the horror. All the other characters work within the universe of the show; they are characters in a room, and the room is on your screen. They are two layers away from you, tucked safely in this room in their TV universe, which exists only on your screen, unable to actually harm you.
And so is BOB, at first. He's obscured momentarily by the small pillars, and he walks around the wall and through the hallway, obeying the layout of his surroundings, just like all the other characters. Just another character in a TV show. Until he starts to crawl over the couch.
And you realize that BOB is not contained in the room.
The comfortable TV universe does not apply to BOB. And he shows you this. He moves up a layer - one layer closer to you. But, he's still contained by the camera's frame, staying within the borders of the shot the entire time.
Until, at the very last moment, when he's so close you can see the pores on his skin - you realize that the frame doesn't contain BOB either.
"Twin Peaks (1990 - 1991) The 'Bob Crawl'"; @joshs.5384.
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