Board 8 > 2022-23 Horror Topic: Yes Chef!

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https://youtu.be/PuiWDn976Ek

Hype

That's pretty much how I'd expect to feel about it

Skinamarink would probably be a really great short Analog Horror film on YT or something. Trim it down to 20 mins and you could have something genuinely enthralling I think.

In other news Missing is out today and I have very high hopes because Searching was great

what relation does missing have to searching?

I'm not 100% positive but from what I know about it it's an unrelated story, just presented in a similar fashion where they're looking for a missing person via the internet. From the same writers as Searching

but I've also tried not to look up too much because I want to go in as fresh as possible

Saw Missing, very good and extremely tense and suspenseful throughout, and a killer soundtrack.

My only complaint: looking back after all the twists have resolved themselves, it ultimately doesn't make much sense

Finally watched Something in the Dirt and as expected I absolutely loved it. It actually reminded me of a more absurdist Lake Mungo, complete with a similar gut punch ending. The web this movie weaves is unreal and the way it just keeps spiraling out of control left me absolutely bewildered at certain points, while at the same time just being this interesting two-hander character piece. Definitely thematically similar to all their past films - Benson & Moorhead's takes on the mundane slowly and steadily brushing into contact with the cosmic unknown continually gives me stuff to chew on constantly.

https://youtu.be/0E3UyMc8o74

saw Infinity Pool tonight

Mia Goth deserves an oscar for that too, and Brandon Cronenberg is already going lengths to cement his style as unlike anyone else, his dad included

1. Nobody's died yet! Don't know if that's me doing things right or just that things aren't actually as dangerous as they seem so far. Seems like it's always either Jacob or Emma that's in danger
2. Honestly I like most of the characters more than I thought I would. Max and Laura have a surprisingly strong relationship, Jacob did something real dumb but he's surprisingly funny and likeable, Emma too, the only characters I've really disliked are Dylan (who goes back and forth between funny and annoying) and Ryan (who started off strong in the first chapters as the most level-headed and reasonable of the group but has spent the last couple chapters being whiny). Best characters are probably Laura and Kaitlyn
3. What is the deal with this supposed Ryan/Dylan/Kaitlyn love triangle? Like Ryan/Dylan I get, there's a lot of setup for Dylan pining after Ryan, but Kaitlyn? Kaitlyn and Ryan have said maybe two words to each other the entire game? Like around chapter 6-8 other characters started talking about Ryan and Kaitlyn and I honestly assumed I must've just gotten the names mixed up because there hadn't been even a hint of that prior in the game (beyond the option to have Ryan kiss her in truth or dare, which I didn't take because, again, Dylan had interest and she had expressed none)
4. so the werewolf thing I mostly get and it's cool, if a little played out. But what's with all the glitchy ghosty stuff? I was thinking that was another part of the mystery but now I'm like 80% of the way through the game (I'm just assuming 10 chapters given what's left in the clues/tarot list) and it has yet to give even a slight hint as to what the werewolf story might have to do with everything glitching weird and there being weird ghostly sightings and sounds
5. What was with the weird Dylan thing where he was like "oh yeah back home I'm actually hyperintelligent and I just pretend to be dumb and aloof here to get people to like me" but then he just continues to be actually dumb and aloof the rest of the game. Like he has the chance to potentially radio for help and instead of taking it seriously he just acts like it's a prank call as if he hadn't just had that heart to heart about not actually being that way 5 minutes earlier
6. There have been a couple very minor hints about miners and I swear to god I do not need another fucking horror story caused by a collapsed mine jesus christ
7. minor (ha) thing but this game is so dark that I have to have the game's brightness almost the whole way up just to see what's going on. There's a difference between having shadows to add to the dread and just having the environment be a solid black screen
8. I feel like I'm missing a bunch of clues. The Dark Pictures games have a lot of flaws but I didn't appreciate how helpful their clue charts were