31: Nightmare Cinema (2018)
An anthology from Mick Garris, the showrunner of Masters Of Horror and Fear Itself, very much giving the impression that he’d like to start another series but all of these were a bit too short.
The frame story with Mickey Rourke as the Projectionist is intriguing but underdeveloped, and two of the five stories are nightmare focused and none actually about the cinema while three are hospital based.
The Thing In The Woods is like the last ten minutes of a not-so-serious slasher movie.
Mirari directed by Joe Dante is pretty much going back to a Twilight Zone hook, and a guessable one.
Mashit might be the standout for strangeness as it takes Catholic authorities versus possessed kids in a direction I hadn’t seen before. I laughed. I'm a monster.
This Way To Egress was the only really creepy one but didn’t quite stick the landing.
Dead by Garris is a solid take on a classic idea apart from two strange choices that derailed it for me.
Content note for surgery, suicide and self-harm, none treated in depth. And bugs.
The medium: Shudder
Gameability: I can see the frame working as a setup - what would you do if you saw your name on the marquee of a closed cinema? And Dead explores its setup in enough detail to work as a starting point too.
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