I absolutely agree. I read The Wendigo when on summer vacation in the mountains this year, just before going to sleep and waking up in the middle of a thunder storm, with thunder so intense that it would make the windows tremble in their frames, and lightning that stroke close enough to cut all power in the apartment…

I'd like to second that! I'm actually a bit sorry that I couldn't didn't chime in after having launched the discussion, but the answers — and a lot of other replies on the topic — were really great. So thanks for everyone involved!
It's the rarest of communities where you can get any ball rolling and just be confident…

I guess it should be possible to get DVD versions of at least Tokyo Sonata and Bright Future, shouldn't it? What with the former winning a major prize at a premium festival, an the second one coming on a subtitled DVD that I own. Actually, I also mail ordered Charisma back in the day — so if you're not shying away…

Depending on what you are looking for in Kurosowa's movies, you shouldn't get your hopes up too high for Creepy. In fact, you could say much the same thing it that was said here about Daguerrotype: "Kurosawa’s sense of mood" is almost impeccable in Creepy, too — he sure as hell does know how to conjure up the…

I've never thought of Lavos or Giygas as Lovecraftian in nature, but your arguments do make sense — they certainly are unsettling in a way that was, or even is to this day, not easy to pin down.

That's a fairly comprehensive list, even though some obvious contenders are inevitably missing. Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes to mind, with its stroke of genius of having you go mad when looking at its abonimations, which puts you in the uneasy spot of either not knowing what is going on or knowing but being worse…

It's as if the very act of discovery were being gamified.

Oh yeah, that one was weird, but wonderful.
Actually, for some reason, I only played and finished The Unfinished Swan this week, even though I bought it years ago, and there are similar moments with telescopes in there. Granted, one peek through a telescope leads to a cringe-worthy homage to Journey, but there are…

Hm. I was thinking about being that guy and putting in the mandatory Team Ico-reference — Ico and Shadow of The Colossus are, as a truth so often repeated it's bordering on the cliche has it, the gaming equivalent to the glass half-full thing: Often 'empty', but games that know how to fill the space around that…

A summer that brought us Swiss Army Man can't be considered a summer of failure. And hey, I haven't even seen Kubo yet…

As improbable as it sounds, the fact that this description is not totally inaccurate and that the movie is still great is part of its unlikely charm.

Man, Angel Olsen. I do like her music, and I'm really looking forward to checking this one here out.

It already played around these parts (it's actually right continuing its surprisingly, but heart-warmingly long run in the more artistic leaning cinemas around here). It's easy to want to be contrarian when the praise is so universal, but it really is something special. Both in the 'how did somebody have those ideas…

I've seen Under The Shadow at a festival and can confirm that it is really rather good. It succeeds in having a great premise for a movie (essentially, trapping its main character in an environment by believable circumstances, both obvious and more subtle, and all of them politically charged without ever feeling…

Much like the horny teenagers the movie revolves around, I was too 'entranced' (to use the word the video's narrator chose) by Maribel Verdú when watching Y tu Mama tambien for the first time to actually register the long takes. Almost surprised to see that they were already present there. (In my defense: I was not…

I'd actually nominate in serious the one movie that Jesse only mentioned in passing: The Myth of The American Sleepover. It is, in its own way, as atmospheric as It Follows, but gentle were Michtell's It Follows goes for terror. Myth is not as widely seen, I imagine, but you could check out the French BluRay version…

Oh boy, I've finally got a chance to rave nostalgically about my all-time favorite game trilogy without having to squeeze it awkwardly into an article that has diddy all to do with the game!

My first thought was Dire Dire Docks, my second thought Diablo's town theme — and lo and behold, those two were covered in the first comments. Terranigma would have been my next choice — glad to see that you have thought of it, too. (I actually played it way later on an emulator, but I would agree that's one of the…

It helped that you basically did close-combat brawling the whole time through. You usually didn't need see a whole lot of environment, as long as you could just keep that combo going. (I guess that's the thing up in the article about the 'verbs' you mainly use to interact with the environment defining the camera,…

I can assure you, both from personal experience and observation, that most kids take their gaming very seriously.