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Peeling Off the ‘Layers of Fear’ in Bloober Team’s Horror Hit [Safe Room Podcast]
Before listening to this week’s discussion on Layers of Fear, check out last week’s episode of Horror Bytes: Safe Room’s indie horror spotlight!
To say that Bloober Team is striking while the horror iron is hot would be an understatement. The studio’s prolific rise within gaming, thanks to helming several beloved IPs and crafting its own, is nothing short of noteworthy.
Over the last six years, the Polish studio released seven games that, while all different, abide by Bloober’s commitment to horror experiences that largely strip away the conventional survival trappings of the genre. And while this has led to varying success over the last decade, one thing remains steadfast in its approach to games: Narrative is king, with few better examples in its portfolio than 2016’s Layers of Fear.
The tortured artist trope is one that anyone even remotely interested in horror, or honestly, any medium of fiction, has encountered countless times. And yet, Layers of Fear smartly took this tired trope and applied a level of vague and hallucinatory horrors to the experience, that it reinvigorated the premise into something that felt exciting again.
So for this week’s episode, Neil and I recruited the host of Knight Light: A Horror Movie Podcast, Prince Jackson, to help us unpack Layers of Fear’s unique approach to storytelling, the inherent potential of remakes, and to fill us in on just what the heck a horror movie consultant is?! – Jay Krieger
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Stephen King’s ‘Doctor Sleep’ Returns to ‘The Shining’ With Mixed Results [The Losers’ Club Podcast]
“Life was a wheel, its only job was to turn, and it always came back to where it started.”
The Losers’ Club: A Stephen King Podcast heads to Frazier, New Hampshire to review Stephen King’s 2013 novel, Doctor Sleep. The sequel to 1977’s The Shining follows a much-older Danny Torrance, whose battle with alcoholism becomes all the more complicated when he crosses paths with a young child who also has the shine.
Join Losers Randall Colburn, Michael Roffman, and Dan Caffrey as they discuss the True Knot, dirty dishes with poundcake, and debate if King should have ever burned down The Overlook Hotel. Note: This episode was recorded in 2019 and is being re-released today as part of their ensuing chronological read-through.
Stream the discussion below and stay tuned next week for an episode on Bryan Fuller’s Carrie. For further adventures, join the Club over long days and pleasant nights via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, RadioPublic, Acast, Google Podcasts, and RSS. You can also unlock hundreds of hours of content in The Barrens (Patreon), including more Lobstrosities like this episode.
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