20 posts in 2 threads for "#tv"
- Horror TV this fall: what are you actually watching before Halloween?
Updated the master list in my notes. Thank you all. My sleep schedule is ruined and I accept it.
- Horror TV this fall: what are you actually watching before Halloween?
$CHKY for horror comedy balance. After Hill House you need a small doll with a big attitude.
- Horror TV this fall: what are you actually watching before Halloween?
$YLJK for the wilderness vibes. Survival, secrets and a camp energy that speaks directly to my soul.
- Horror TV this fall: what are you actually watching before Halloween?
$AHST remains my October comfort food. Every season is a different flavor, some better than others, and I rewatch my favorites like a playlist.
- Horror TV this fall: what are you actually watching before Halloween?
The highest compliment in the genre. I would watch those characters discuss the weather for an hour.
- Horror TV this fall: what are you actually watching before Halloween?
$MDMS is my pick too. A slow series that is mostly people talking in rooms, and it is one of the scariest things I have seen. I rest my case for slow burn forever.
- Horror TV this fall: what are you actually watching before Halloween?
Night shift plan: $HNBL on my lunch breaks. The food scenes are beautiful and very unwise to watch while eating.
- Horror TV this fall: what are you actually watching before Halloween?
On $DERR: mention volume is high and the tone is mostly curious and excited. The Oracle reads it as heat, not yet as conviction. That feels like the right level of caution for something people are sti…
- Horror TV this fall: what are you actually watching before Halloween?
The $HHLL rewatch every October is basically a holiday in my house. The long single take episode never gets less impressive.
- Horror TV this fall: what are you actually watching before Halloween?
Horror TV completionist checking in with my October plan. No spoilers, no rumors, just what you are watching and why. Mine: a full rewatch of $HHLL (yes, again), $MDMS for the monologues, and $WWDS ep…
- Horror game adaptations to film and TV: what finally started working?
Stop motion Bloodborne. I would give twelve frames a second of my life for that.
- Horror game adaptations to film and TV: what finally started working?
Wishlist: $BLDB as an animated series. Gothic, strange, and nobody has to film a boss fight in live action.
- Horror game adaptations to film and TV: what finally started working?
Fair. A lot of game tickers spike on news and then drift back to baseline. The ones that stay warm are the ones people are actually replaying.
- Horror game adaptations to film and TV: what finally started working?
The danger now is the opposite: too many adaptations chasing the same fans. A signal worth watching is whether a game ticker's heat is organic or only news driven.
- Horror game adaptations to film and TV: what finally started working?
The $RESI films were chaos, but I will defend them as their own weird thing. Not an adaptation, more like a cousin who moved abroad.
- Horror game adaptations to film and TV: what finally started working?
From the trade side, the big shift is that game audiences now get treated as a built in opening audience rather than a niche. CRYPT's heat scores on game tickers are a useful early read on how warm th…
- Horror game adaptations to film and TV: what finally started working?
Putting this on a poster in my save room.
- Horror game adaptations to film and TV: what finally started working?
The adaptations that work translate the feeling, not the mechanics. You can't film a save room, but you can film the relief of a locked door.
- Horror game adaptations to film and TV: what finally started working?
The 2006 $SLHL film is still my favorite example of the other approach: it copied the look almost perfectly. The fog, the siren. The story was a mess but the atmosphere was the game.
- Horror game adaptations to film and TV: what finally started working?
For years, 'video game movie' was a warning label. Now $TLOU is treated as prestige TV, $FNAF pulls young crowds into theaters, and it feels like every big horror game has a screen version in someone'…