September Reading: "Reel Thrills"
Added 2024-09-29 23:36:54 +0000 UTCAh! September is almost over! In honor of that terrifying fact, let’s dive into some content on the more dark and foreboding side of things - this month’s reading is an exciting and innovative video game which comes at a new Patron’s excellent suggestion, and it only took me most of September to clear enough space on my hard drive to play it. Let’s jump in!
Sam Barlow
As I’ve publicly professed, I’m not a natural fan of horror — there are episodes of Spongebob Squarepants I still find a little too intense. But one of the many perks of meeting new and wonderful people is the ability to borrow their courage and dig into something ominous, innovative, and beyond my ken. And as Undersigned marches on, I continue to do my best to sharpen my tools for co-authoring thrillers. Enter Immortality.
From one of the writers of Silent Hill comes something entirely different, very novel, and guaranteed to make my father wax poetic on the years he spent as a movie theater projectionist. The mystery of what happened to actress Marissa Marcel must be solved by scrubbing through the footage from 3 of her films. Will I crack the case? Will I chicken out? Will the years I’ve spent listening to everything at double-speed finally come in handy?
Roll the tape
P.S. I wasn’t joking around in the intro folks - you’re gonna need 30+ gigs free on a drive to play this badboy, which, if you’re a digital hoarder like me, may kick off certain crises/life restructurings
Related Readings
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Moreno-Garcia’s Mexican Gothic is the only book I can recall reading that gave me nightmares - her trippy genre-horror was a memorable thrill. So how could I resist ordering a copy of her exploration of the Mexican Horror Movie scene?
Women in Hollywood: Who runs the film industry?
BBC; The Conversation; 2023
Need a break from all this scary? Dive into the REAL terror of the progress (and lack thereof for women in film — which is certainly one of the many things explored in Barlow’s newest work.
