![]() It's no surprise when a dark and deadly black monster appears out of the gloom to consume your soul. Realising that his bag is missing, a few rooms later you're all too aware that something's amiss. Left alone, one of the lads shoots a few hoops before heading back to the changing room. Kicking off in a typical basketball-obsessed US college, it's the end of the school day in the gymnasium, and some of the sportier kids hang back for a bit of b-ball practise. Take advantage of the sunshine while it lasts Obscure unashamedly rips off the teen horror premise, and why not? There are evidently rich pickings to be had, and it's a surprisingly accomplished effort from the French team that flagrantly nabs some of the best bits from Resident Evil, Alone In The Dark, Project Zero and of course Silent Hill, as well as introducing a smattering of its own new ideas. Quite why no one thought to apply the exact same formula to a horror videogame before now is a curious thing. Witnessing a bunch of curious, pesky kids full of bravado gradually losing their cool as they get picked off by some unseen evil is always strangely satisfying. ![]() Even though the genre became a parody of itself and then eventually went all ironic on us, it still has the capacity to be a winning horror formula. No wonder Slipknot are doing such a roaring trade, and no wonder movie makers delight in finding new and interesting ways to cull them in an endless succession of teen horror movies they make such willing fodder. Who needs 'em? Always whingeing about being misunderstood, hormonally unbalanced, and incapable of deciding on a vaguely flattering hairstyle. ![]()
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