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just a classic spooky ghost, making my way through a hedge maze by cheating and going through the walls. They/Them 🏳️‍🌈 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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ALooseGhost @alooseghost.bsky.social · 8d

Just in time for the spookiest month! Come and join me for a little while as I tell you about the idea of Sensory Deprivation Horror.
I'll start small, but stick with me and you'll see how far this goes.

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How Silence Can Be Scary

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ALooseGhost @alooseghost.bsky.social · 10h

10. In A Violent Nature

A slasher film that takes its time. Long, long sequences following the killer walking the woods through calm scenery followed by some of the most ridiculous kills I've ever seen.

The sound design in this is absolutely incredible. You could almost watch it with no visuals.

The movie poster for In A Violent Nature.
The movie title is small, overlayed on top of a figure wearing some kind of mask that covers their entire head, facing away from the viewer into a warm sunset behind a line of trees. He is holding two large meat hooks.

ALooseGhost @alooseghost.bsky.social · 1d

9. The Ugly Stepsister

Movies this week!

A cruel spin on a classic fairy tale. Cinderella from the perspective of the sisters, but with all the evils of the time period it's set in included.

I'm a sucker for an adaptation that flips the moral of the original.

Beware, body horror galore

Poster for The Ugly Stepsister. A woman with blue eyes and a gold contraption on her nose is partially obscured by a foot in a pink fancy heel and a ribbon around the ankle.
The films name in Norwegian is at the bottom in bright pink. The poster is framed in an ornate pink decoration.

ALooseGhost @alooseghost.bsky.social · 4d

8. Detention

Set in Taiwan in the 1960s and utilizing the Silent Hill method of metaphorical horror.
Detention tells a horror story based around the history and culture of Taiwan.
Deeply uncomfortable and unsettling.

The cover art for the game Detention.
A high school student in grey scale on a white background that's filled with classroom furniture that seems to be falling. The student is clutching a portrait that has been smashed, the person in the portrait is unclear due to the breakage.
The name of the game is on the right written in red text.

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ALooseGhost @alooseghost.bsky.social · 5d

7. Signalis

We're in a retro-style survival horror boom over the last few years and this is my favourite of the bunch.

Brilliant atmosphere wrapped around a strange, purposefully obtuse narrative. The strength of this game is the way it *feels* to be in this story.

Cover art for the game Signalis. A feminine robotic humanoid with a black and red body and pale face stands with a gun in hand on a background with some organic looking substance off to the side. The game title is at the top with a complicated geometric symbol behind it.

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ALooseGhost @alooseghost.bsky.social · 7d

6. Luto

A spooky and clever experience hiding an intimate, emotional story.

Full of well thought out, interesting sequences that play around with the simple "haunted house horror game" format.

The smartest use of horror as a metaphor I've seen in ages. I'll need more characters to explain why.

The cover art for the game Luto. It is simply the word Luto in white capital letters on a black background, reading downwards instead of left to right

ALooseGhost @alooseghost.bsky.social · 8d

How Silence Can Be Scary

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ALooseGhost @alooseghost.bsky.social · 9d

How it feels to successfully pull off a scheme

ALooseGhost @alooseghost.bsky.social · 10d

5. PROXIMATE

Week two is game recommendations!

PROXIMATE puts you in a visor that obscures your vision completely and provides you with a computer that estimates what's in front of you and how far away it is.
This concept is thoroughly explored and terrifying.

(More about this from me soon)

The cover art for the game PROXIMATE. Bold red capital letters saying "PROXIMATE" that appear to be eroded around the edges on top of yellow-green pixelated x-rays of various heads, and some unrecognizable x-ray at the bottom right

ALooseGhost @alooseghost.bsky.social · 12d

4. Shirley Jackson

Way more famous than I'd normally cover, but less than half as famous as she deserves.
Jackson writes stories about the horror of plainly interacting with people. Stories that might not feel like horror at all, until you consider the context.
Most of them, simply conversations.