Will Nadeau

Have you ever read the long series of poems that consists of Dante’s Inferno and thought, “Wow, I wish this was a video game? Or have you ever played Doom and wished that it could be ten times more difficult and twice as fast-paced? Well, believe it or not, there is in fact a video game that matches both of these criterias. ULTRAKILL is a very fast-paced first-person shooter with graphics inspired by games from the 1990s like Half-Life 1 or the very first Resident Evil, you recognize the type. The style is intentional, however, as the game released its…

With Halloween just around the corner, the great majority of people (me included) will begin to watch horror movies. I will present here my favorite horror movie genre; found footage movies.  The most famous found footage movie is, of course, The Blair Witch Project. Released in 1999, it is the story of three film students recording a supposedly haunted forest. Without any spoilers, strange events start happening, and their trip takes a much scarier turn, and what started as a documentary quickly descends into madness.  An earlier trace of found footage can be found in another movie, however. The Blair…