One of my earliest memories is playing Warlords on the Atari 2600 with my family, all sitting on our orange shag carpet, paddles in hand.
'Especially since I was an indoor kid, thanks to my congenital heart defect. Not only will you get to watch the movie about the game's eerie power, you'll be able to play it yourself.įor Buchanan, who has worked in the games industry since graduating college and counts a writing stint at Nintendo among his various roles, the decision to weave together his love of old games and his love of horror was a natural one. The big difference here is that the film is being developed alongside the game in question. Portland-based indie filmmaker Levi Buchanan aims to change that with his new project, Sitra Achra, about a malevolent computer game prototype from the 1980s that sinks its hooks into an obsessed retro game collector. The trope runs the gamut of modern pop media, but one medium is conspicuously less common than others: video games.
James, to the apocalyptic reels of film in John Carpenter's Cigarette Burns, the infernal vinyl recordings of Rob Zombie's Lords of Salem and the sinister children's TV show at the center of the first season of creepypasta TV show Channel Zero.
The concept of cursed media has been around for a long time, from the forbidden books that drove protagonists insane in multiple stories by Lovecraft and M.R.
