When finished properly, interactive fiction and horror can be a winning combination. As an example, take the RL Stine Book series "Give Yourself Guavi", featuring a unique story with a branch -based conspiracy. The idea was that the reader would play an active role in capture the story of a certain direction, be it in the form of simple choices to solve puzzles or classic choices. For example, if the road breaks down, the left -aid reader will land on a certain number of page, which will then continue the story and take advantage of the effects of that choice. This exciting selection-Vasha property-adventure Approach to "Goosebumps" facilitated the experience with storytellingAs he added another layer of anticipation of the stakes in the narrative. Unfortunately, almost all of these interactive books in the Stine series are not currently printed.

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Interactive fiction in horror, however, is not limited to novels or stories. Here is the "Black Mirror" of Emi-Mer's "Black Mirror" (What makes the smart use of anxiety about high -risk choice. But what about the sequel to a direct video horror, which focuses on the concept of choosing-adventure, which allows viewers to create 96 (!!!) versions of the film? Let's talk about "Returning to Haun's House" by Viktor Garcia, a strangely ambitious sequel to the 1999 critical pan, "House of Praised Rid".

As suspicious as "The Hons Hill House" is like a miraculous horror, he was doing extremely good at release, earning $ 65 million worldwide. In the film, some foreigners are invited to a party held on an abandoned sanatorium, where they offer incredible millions of dollars to anyone who manages to survive the night. If this story sounds known, it's because it is: The 1999 film is a remake of the horror classic of William Castlewho hires camp and theater scares for great effect. Needless to say, the remake fails to measure his original material on all fronts, but can To be treated as a frivolous, one -time fun for fun. The same cannot be said about his sequel, whose branched narrative ends up to make matters worse.

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If you look at "Return to Howns Hill's House" in good linear fashion, it will present itself as a raven version of the 1999 version, which is not much in the first place. But as soon as you explore its interactive DVD features, it ceases to be a horror of the mill and appears as a rare curve that radiates intrigue. You would think that such painstaking efforts to create branched narratives were planned by getting, but that was not the case.

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The original script does not contain any branching scenes, and the revised versions of the script arrived when the main photo of the film was arranged. After the news of DVD's DVD (called Navigating Cinema) was published, the actor Effe Combs said. CBR That he was "confused" about the recording process, where he gave "everything equally weighted", but it was easy to "forget the variations" of events. This is understandable, as shooting out of the sequence with 90+ narrative branches in the mind can become very confusing even in the most controlled, narrow knitwear. All things discussed, it is confusing that these detailed stories choices mainly lead to scenes with greater nudity or imposition, but only One The choice changes the outcome of "Returning to Huns Hill House" in a significant way (where - spoilers! - You can choose to kill every character in the movie to the end).

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The only merit that the sequel has on its name is the return of D -Vanakut to Combs, which is shown as Brilliant but still adamant wicked doctor with an unsuitable plan in the original film. However, the sequel denies this innate complexity and shapes it as a morally neutral doctor spoiled by the wicked idol Buffomet (Buring!), That causes him to go crazy enough and kill people of burning, extravagant ways. Everything else feels stale and uninspired, where no narrative mixing is enough to save a story that was more conceived as a trick than an honest attempt to fear or entertain.

Although "returning to Howns Hill's house" took the opportunity to do something interesting with its interactive framework, a similar approach can be used in future stories with a clearer artistic vision in the mind. After all, the heartbeat of the horror is often reduced to a second split elections, who throw characters into the mold of sprayers or the final survivor. In the end, these navigation choices should be important.