Deep Sleep is a trilogy consisting of three interconnected chapters: Deep Sleep , Deeper Sleep , and The Deepest Sleep . Just like Alice Is Dead that I reviewed earlier , it's an amazing online horror game of the point and click genre. The storyline is guiding you through a creepy lucid dreaming experience of the main character. You find yourself inside a nightmare, trying to find a way out to reality. In order to wake up you are exploring different locations solving puzzles by finding, modifying and applying objects. You will also learn the details of the organization of the dream realm and its dwellers during playing. The game offers you two different endings. Both are not happy.   What Makes This Game Great 1) Deeply evil atmosphere. The music is perfectly creepy. The drawings are somehow original—made in a pixel art style—minimalistic, a bit primitive, sometimes a bit childish, but in general very enjoyable. 2) Interest...

This is a review of the soundtrack to Wes Craven's horror film The Serpent and the Rainbow where I also share what I know about this mysterious and rare release. Contents Music Overview While the film itself is very good, its best part is the soundrtack written by Brad Fiedel—the composer of scores to such films as The Terminatior (1 and 2) and Fright Night. Indeed, the whole score contains the same "metallic" drums similar to the ones in the Terminator theme. Skipping an unnecessary discourse on self-plagiarism, I can note that the sound on this work is seriously improved: it's more natural, has a feeling of being played by a weird orchestra. The same dark, sinister atmosphere is completed with a mystic African black voodoo magic flavor. You will find here conga drums along with other percussion, African native instruments, cellos, flutes, synthesizer-generated choirs and other effects. The sound is excellent—very ...

This post is an overview of a beautiful and sad Jean Rollin's film The Night of the Hunted . I've seen almost all of his films (if not counting X-rated ones), and The Night of the Hunted is among my favorite ones (my all-time favorite is Fascination I wrote about here ). The film stands out from the majority of Jean Rollin's movies : interestingly, it's not about vampires. Table of Contents Plot Summary This French drama directed by a mastermind of "Eurotrash" cult classic cinema — Jean Rollin , and originally titled " La nuit des traquées ", is one of the most effective solutions to drag yourself into sadness for 1.5 hours of watch time and probably for a couple of days after. In a nutshell, it's a sad, tragic, and bizarre story about a young woman Elizabeth and her friends suffering from total amnesia and trying to escape from a mysterious asylum. The film is playing a merciles...

Alice is Dead is a free online horror point and click puzzle game. It's loosely based on Lewis Carrol's "Alice's Adventures In Wonderland". Based as loosely as possible: the first thing, you see when the gameplay starts, is the corpse of Alice. You meet some of the characters from the book, but the storyline is completely different. It consists of three chapters (three separate games), in which the events take place in different locations: a place looking like a rabbit hole, the prison, and the town. The mood of the game is nothing but creepy: you get enough weirdness, bloody violence, and cynical jokes. The puzzles are difficult enough to keep it intriguing. The drawings and music couldn't be made and implemented better. One more detail to notice is a beautiful theme song "Alice is Dead", used in the third episode composed and performed by a talented musician and voice artist Hania Zdunek...

Morgve is a name of a music band. They are a lovely young couple from Argentina – Gonza and Nadia, who compose witch house, flavored with elements of other electronic genres. There are two main kinds of mood I personally noticed in their songs: silent depressive and agonizing suffering. Honestly, there are only a few bands in witch house I find really interesting, and now they are one of them. What I like in their music: Interesting tunes, feeling fresh and inspired, not primitive and forced, as most music of this genre. Nadia’s vocals: her voice has an interesting tone – it's not really soft and gentle, but charming in a different way: sensitive, desperate, full of pain and unbearable fatigue. Some of the songs sound partially like heavy metal, which is interesting for a music without guitars at all:...