Greetings all and thank you for your patience around the new game - the more convoluted the plot the longer it takes to get everything worked out. But will get there eventually, I hope sometime in September.

In the meantime here are some horror-ish movies. I've never really been a movie person but since I started working on these games I've started trying to push myself to watch more often so I thought I'd make a little list of finds I've enjoyed from that process.

The Undertaker & His Pals (1966) - clocking in at a crisp 63 minutes this is a very weird and tasteless no-budget horror comedy which alternates violently and at random between crude homemade gore and really dopey gag comedy to unsettling effect. It's a good example of the weird effects you can get from just stapling different genre conventions together - here the staff at a shady cannibal diner have teamed up with an undertaker who kills people so he can charge for their funerals, to their mutual profit. Ends on a dreamlike chase sequence.

Crime Wave (1985) - not the Sam Raimi one, and not really a horror film, although it does have some unsettling moments. But it's also very funny, especially the imaginary schlocky pulp crime thrillers that the protagonist is dreaming up, and gets some uncanny effects by replicating old technicolour-era conventions. I think anyone who likes the writing in the Killer games would enjoy this too.

Venus In Furs (1969) - "erotic thriller" by Jess Franco which is neither erotic nor thrilling but is a very weird, delightful movie that feels like all the throwaway jazzy bits in Argento films stitched together into one movie. You know you're in good hands when the opening sequence has a guy wandering around a beach, digging a trumpet out of the sand and playing it, and then immediately stumbling upon a corpse. A very catchy title theme too.

Judex (1963) - Eyes Without A Face is my favourite from this director but I think about the masked ball sequence of this one a lot. A compressed recreation of old crime movie serials like Les Vampires - so lots of masked conspiracies, faked deaths, unlikely reunions, and people in cat burglar outfits sneaking around rooftops holding knives.

Ascension Of The Demonoids (1985) - very funny and mysterious psychedelic George Kuchar b-movie with a UFO theme. Feels like watching the dreamiest segments of every new age video compressed into one half narrative. Powerfully cheap and can be watched for free on youtube.

The 5000 Fingers Of Dr T (1953) - with a screenplay by Dr Seuss and matching enormous surreal sets that the characters spend most of the movie being chased around. Very dreamlike and ominous, when the characters aren't singing (and sometimes when they are). The 5000 fingers refer to all the people the dictatorial music teacher Dr T imprisons to play at his gigantic piano recital and there's lots of strange hand-themed imagery throughout.

The Phantom Of The Opera (1925) - if you liked Eyes Of The Killer you might also like this one about a masked weirdo running around the scrambled prop sets of a gigantic, half-subterranean opera house. In this one the Phantom doesn't wear a white mask, but a kind of crude papier-mache one made to look like a normal human face, which is far more unsettling.

Friday The 13th Part III - This is the "3D" one so every five minutes they interrupt the action while someone, like, bobs a yo-yo at the screen, or pushes a snake into the camera, or waggles a laundry pole at you, an endless procession of the goofiest gimmick shots which is somehow very charming. Jason Voorhees wandering slowly around like an unkillable Power Rangers puttyman also ends up being more dreamlike than you might expect.

Peace......