Month: January 2018
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Thoughts on A Nightmare on Elm Street
A Nightmare on Elm Street is one of the most recognisable titles in cinema – as is it’s villain, and star, Freddy Krueger. I felt the urge to re-watch this film after my recently-formed gaming obsession with Dead By Daylight. I was pleasantly surprised by the fact that much of the film still holds up…
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Black Paradox
What is Black Paradox about? Black Paradox follows four characters who meet on a group suicide website. We join them as they are meeting in person for the first time, in preparation for performing their suicide together. After their failed attempt, one of them starts regurgitating large shiny balls that he says are from a…
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She is a Slow Walker
Junji Ito takes on the zombie genre in this short story. It centers around a couple trapped in their apartment during a zombie apocalypse. The manga is actually set in the same universe as the ‘I am a Hero’ manga series, and is from an anthology manga called ‘8 tales of the ZQN’.
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Hellstar Remina
A scientist’s daughter is inexplicably linked to a mysterious, newly-discovered planet in the night sky. But when the planet is seen moving at great speeds, and with deadly consequences, the link with the young girl is brought into question by the public.
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Army of One
Army of One is a one shot manga featured at the end of Junji Ito’s five-part series Hellstar Remina. It tells of the mysterious stitch murders and turns a popular horror trope on its head.
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Interview with Katy Bentz (Steph Gingrich in Life is Strange Before the Storm)
Life is Strange Before the Storm re-acquainted us with some of the characters we had come to love from the original game. But not only that, we got introduced to some new characters also. A favourite of a lot of peoples, myself included, was Steph Gingrich. She’s the girl who you really need to take the…