After a young man's premonition of a deadly race-car crash helps saves the lives of his peers, Death sets out to collect those who evaded their end.
Having said of the last installment “where could you go wrong?”
Well, here most of the foreshadowing is replaced with premonitions and that doesn’t work as well.
Still, there are some wildly inventive fatalities and the finale does actually take it up a notch.
★★★
I hope…
Firewatch is a first-person single-player mystery set in the Wyoming wilderness, where your only emotional lifeline is the person on the other end of a handheld radio.
I played this back in August 2021 and just found some screenshots. I enjoyed it as a game but my over-riding memory is this:
Basically, the protagonist is a shit.
Also, very, very lazy effort on the stars:
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A college campus is plagued by a vicious serial killer murdering students in ways that correspond to various urban legends.
I had very fond memories of this but, actually, it’s pretty bad. There is a super high body count, though!
★★
On a dark and somber night, a secret cabal of monster hunters emerge from the shadows and gather at the foreboding Bloodstone Temple following the death of their leader. In a strange and macabre memorial to the leader’s life, the attendees are thrust into a mysterious and deadly competition for a powerful relic—a hunt that will ultimately bring them face to face with a dangerous monster.
Armed with only one word - Tenet - and fighting for the survival of the entire world, the Protagonist journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in something beyond real time.
Simultaneously total 1 ⭐️ timey-wimy bollocks and a 5 ⭐️ masterpiece of such ambitious extent you’ll be mulling it over for days afterwards.
★★½
The year is 1988. Abby and Gretchen have been best friends since fourth grade. After an evening of skinny-dipping goes disastrously wrong, Gretchen begins to act…different, which leads Abby to suspect her best friend may be possessed by a demon. With help from some unlikely allies, Abby embarks on a quest to save Gretchen. But is their friendship powerful enough to beat the devil?
I wanted to like this but there is very little to recommend it. I have never used the word ‘pastiche’ in my life but it is perfect here.
Watch Jennifer’s Body instead.
★★
A headstrong orphan discovers a world of spells and potions while living with a selfish witch.
A young girl is kidnapped during a powerful storm. Her mother joins forces with her mysterious neighbour to set off in pursuit of the kidnapper. Their journey will test their limits and expose the dark secrets of their past.
