In 2007, the indie horror game Doki Doki Literature Club! was released to itchi.io. This free visual novel very quickly became popular, especially in livestream and video playthroughs, due to its chaotic style of horror. What starts as a sweet and innocent anime-styled dating sim set around a high school literature club quickly dives into a tale of unimaginable psychological horror.
What the Constitution Means to Me is a proshot of the Broadway play What the Constitution Means to Me. Heidi Schreck is the writer and star of the play. She recounts her experience competing in public speaking competitions about the United States Constitution. She steps back in time to recreate one of these competitions, then takes it further to expand upon her teenage interpretations of the Constitution, 9th Amendment, and 14th Amendment as a woman living in the United States.
Introducing Tick: A Short Musical. This is an original short horror musical inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart.” It’s actually part of a longer anthology horror musical called The Sublime Method that I am trying to make available as soon as I can.
Phantasm: Ravager is the fifth and final entry in the horror/sci-fi/slasher/action series that started in 1979. The story jumps between two timelines. It starts with Reggie’s quest to find Mike and defeat the Tall Man after the events of Phantasm IV: Oblivion. Then it jumps to one of the saddest turns the series has ever taken. Reggie snaps into focus being pushed in a wheelchair by Mike. They’re both clearly older, though Reggie is the one living in the nursing home. He’s been diagnosed with early onset dementia and Mike is doing everything he can to help him. Mike asks Reggie to tell him the story of what happened, and it jumps back to Reggie’s quest.
“Kakurenbo (Hide & Seek)” is an animated short horror film from Japan. It is 30 minutes of a game of hide and seek with deadly consequences. Once seven children follow the clues in old street signs (O-to-ko-yo), they wind up at the gates of the city of the dead. They must wear fox masks to conceal their identities. Only then can they enter and compete against demons in a brutal game with no real winner.
