New Horror 2023 – Day 11
“I may not see her; and I warned you to prevent her.”
“The White Priest” by HΓ©lΓ¨ne Gingold (1893)
Another old timey apparition of benign intent. The characters in this one are kinda nonchalant about it, too.
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“It is too much fun being alive⦔
“The Thing from the Sea” by Wally Wood & Joe Orlando (1951)
It’s intriguing that there is no attempt to explain things in these older stories. It’s just spontaneous haunted stuff, wrath of the lord/universe, etc. But it also means there’s no pathos for any of the characters.
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“I wish you would at least let me be happy.”
Hatching dir. Hanna Bergholm (2022)
That’s the stuff. I was afraid it’d be a trauma monster or contained in a certain point of view, but there’s no doubting it. And I’m sure that’s the point, because how else can you get someone to listen?
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“Laura… Laura!”
D dev. Warp (1995)
That was excruciating. The pace just crawls and the prospect of having to play through again because time ran out (which it will because there’s no pause or save feature) is bananas. If you must play it, do it with a guide open, or prepare for at least two or three playthroughs. I can see why it hit in the 90s, especially since I came back to play it because it left a big impression, but it’s more valuable as an artifact than a story worth replaying.