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After Seventeen Years, Donnie Darko Still Holds up as the Best Halloween Movie Ever Made

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Every creature on this Earth dies alone. Loneliness, that is the concept that resonates throughout the story of a schizophrenic teenage boy bearing the name Donald Darko. Known as Donnie to his friends and family, he goes about his strange endeavors every day with a strong feeling of uncertainty and misdirection. These endeavors include many interesting activities, such as drinking with his friends, pissing off his sister or sleepwalking. One day, plagued by his visions, Donnie stumbles sleepwalking out of his house to find a man dressed in a creepy rabbit costume. The man only tells Donnie one thing, a mysterious series of numbers, which, as he immediately finds out, foretells the exact time our world comes to an end, that also happens to fall on the Halloween ' s evening. That morning he wakes up on a lawn with marker writings on his hand and a jet engine falling from the skies crashing through his bedroom. Thanks to his latest night adventure, he has survived and ...

A Look at the Amnesia Franchise as a Part of the Internet History

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In the late 2010, the first videos of screaming youtubers began to emerge from seemingly out of nowhere. Horrified faces blabbered incoherent curses as ominous instrumentals accompanied dark cellar walls on their way to bring terror to a wider audience. These wall would later come to house one of the most infamous and terrifying monsters to ever come out of any videogame ever and leave a lasting impression on the audience and industry alike. Today, we will be looking at the story behind the infamous videogame  Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a game that shaped Youtube for years and that turned the tables of its content for even longer. Studio Conception and Penumbra Projects Back in January 2007, a freelance artist Thomas Grip and a musician Jens Nilsson decided to band together and found a game studio, naming it  Frictional Games . Despite having zero experience in the videogame industry and having only few small software projects behind them, they set off to create their ...