feel like you either completely get what this game is going for when it opens up with an ariana song or you don’t and you hate it. it’s so light and airy and campy while still managing to be tense and cinematic and that feeling doesn’t stop till the credits roll with a monkees needledrop. whole thing is very of the mid 00s american horror film scene, most stuff from that era has this beautiful corporate gloss and sheen to it that just doesn’t exist in modern film much less so modern horror films. everything now has to be obliquely “about” something and has to be dark and depressing, they want you to feel clever about getting the twist ending. horror movies of the aughts were much less so trying to do anything like this, they were trying to be dynamic with the lens not the pen. and a lot of them managed to say something important about the times we were living in but you could also wholly enjoy them purely as campy escapism. think the quarry is much more so of that era of filmmaking than its creators probably want to admit, deeper themes exist here but it’s not at the forefront nor does the game ever try to make you feel smart for picking up on something like that.
idk played this every night with my boyfriend when I came home from work and for a solid week it has completely replaced tv as a medium in our house which is like unheard of. also was reading david kushner’s masters of doom book while playing this and that kind of just got into my head like the idea of being at the beginning of something not the end. I truly do think film has just been completely replaced with games and television, anyone who might have anything interesting to show or say is doing better work in mediums that are actually constantly progressing and moving forward and doing actually impressive things and not just regurgitating the same values in the same ways.
this whole thing probably comes across as more of an incoherent rant than anything else but I do just wholeheartedly love this and I think it’s coming from a very genuine and real place. this thing is just very impressive and dense I love it and I love CW shows lol