Most of the low to mid range horror movie landscape has converted to the arthouse A4 style. Torture porn is decidedly passé in 2022 but there will always be a devoted cult of dedicated gore-hounds for stuff like this. Hence, you get what is perhaps a somewhat overhyped sleeper hit.

I remember way back in the olden times... The year was 2011. The most glorious new beautiful exciting brilliant MMORPG released. It was named Rift. It was the fabled WoW killer. I loved that game. I spent probably hundreds of dollars on various mounts and cosmetic flourishes. I was invested.

Dear Mr. Ocean,

I’d put forth Chocolate (2008) for consideration. Perhaps not the most nuanced take on mental health but um, the last 40 minutes are an unparalleled nonstop action feast for the eyes the likes of which has rarely been put to film. 

Alfred Hitchcock. The answer will forever and always be Alfred Hitchcock. On influence alone not only is he one of the best horror directors but he is one of the most important directors of all time. Period.

I can’t be the only one tired of women who knowingly made a name for themselves, who actively pursued a career based solely on their conventionally attractive sex appeal, telling me how awful it is to objectify women

I recently watched the original Lon Chaney Werewolf movie and was dumbfounded when I realized that one of my childhood favorites was a very thinly veiled metaphor for male lust and infidelity.

You express ignorance then insult me when I provide information on the topic your directly asked about?

I think Yoko Taro and Hideo Kojima should collaborate on a game. 

Dear Kevin,

Reading your comment felt like homework! All kidding aside thank you for your very thoughtful and nuanced take. Interesting indeed.

Doesn’t saying, “We must murder Joe Biden” (the sitting president of the USA) make this a criminal terrorism case?

Gamestop’s only chance of survival in my opinion is to become a ‘destination’. There’s a local comic book store in my town that set up several card tables in the rear and people flock there to play Magic and DnD together. Finding a niche like that, a reason to socialize at their locations, is probably their best bet.…

Fair enough. I still feel it skirts most of the clichés inherent to the genre.

Except there’s not really any steam tech in the game? It’s definitely a heavy influence but I think the greatest inspiration would be the Victorian era.

“but when have we ever seen such vigor towards anti-racism for Black people?”

At least have the common decency to actually type out your shit-heel hot takes individually, comrade. You’re just copy pasting the same old crap here. Yawn.

Wow, those Jews really do got it out for him don’t they?

The real rub happens when it ends pretty much the same way as the show and even if it’s outlined and plotted out better it’ll still be possibly the greatest disappointment in literary history.

I think the setting resonates because it’s different from the typical cyberpunk or Mad Max inspired dystopia. This is a dystopian world, absolutely, but an original one, and that is the main difference.