![]() ![]() Robert Mitchum oozes sly, charming evil as a psychopathic preacher who worms his way into the life of a West Virginia widow (Shelley Winters) and her two young children (Billy Chapin and Sally Anne Bruce). "The most seductive one-shot in the history of movies" was the filmmaker Jacques RIvette's description of this extraordinary 1955 Southern Gothic fairy tale – the only film directed by the actor Charles Laughton, based on the novel by Davis Grubb with a script credited to the writer James Agee. ![]() Fans can expect many of the original weapons and characters newcomers should find it a lively romp, even if it's no longer the trailblazer it once was. Deverlopers id Software had another go, apparently returning to a style of game that feels like the original, just with today's bells and whistles. This reboot had a difficult gestation: work started in 2008 but by 2011 the project had collapsed, reportedly because it had strayed from its roots as a simple, visceral shooter, into a heavily scripted space opera. Doom and its sequels went on to sell more than 10 million copies but there hasn't been one since 2004. ![]() The original Doom (from 1993) is often cited as one of the most influential games of all time, defining first-person-shooters for a generation with a simple but effective formula: cutting-edge graphics, sci-fi story (space marine fights demons in space) and a blend of suspense and sheer shock value that owed more to horror movies than contemporary computer games.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |