thread: 2010-11-30 : Currents
On 2010-12-19, Simon C wrote:
The Lovecraft game I'd like to play would be all about family secrets coming back to haunt people.
There's a tradition of New Zealand cinema that is very much in that vein, with old farm houses, hills covered in mist, and brooding, secretive fathers. It's something about the feeling that something terrible and wrong has been done to the land, or that we don't belong here. Sometimes it's about the fear of the older generation, and the things they had to do to survive as settlers.
Vincent Ward's "Vigil" is probably the best example of this genre, but there are aspects of it apparent in other more accessible films like Peter Jackson's "Brain Dead" ("Dead Alive" in the States).
A Lovecraftian touch to a gothic horror game would be pretty nifty, I think.
