Cosmic Horror Part 3 - Gaming

In this post we'll take a quick look at video games and RPG's, and how story design for these mediums changes a little from film.

Cosmic Horror Part 2 - Film Examples

Now that we’ve established some rough ground rules for reaching into Cosmic Horror, let’s have a look at a few works of film that managed it with varying degrees of success, and one that perhaps knocks on the door of Cosmic Horror (certainly by sharing a few traits with another example), but doesn’t actually cross it.

Note: Spoilers for Oculus (2010), The Thing (1982), Mandy (2018), and Alien (1979).

Cosmic Horror, Part One: Ground Rules

First of a 4 part set of posts looking at Cosmic Horror.