UNBOX-KING #5 CTHULHU FUNKO POP! (PLUS AMIIBO UPDATE)

Another Unbox-King video? Sacre bleu! This blog is becoming an altar to commercialism! Why can't it represent a faith with an all-powerful diety that nobody seems to really understand? Why not Cthulhu?

Just look at that rumbly tumbly behemoth!

WTF WED! ALIEN 5: SHARKS FROM THE BLACK HOLE!

SLIPPERY SHOWER!

You come home. You hear something upstairs. Someone is taking a shower. You creep up the stairs to investigate and realize that your partner is washing off. A playful though emerges. You step into the bathroom and disrobe. You pull the curtain and...

THE HOLE!

Between running a Call of Cthulhu game and watching Christopher Nolan's Interstellar, I find myself obsessed with metaphysical horror because, when confronted by the unexplainable and unconfrontable, humans will try to explain and confront it.

That is fascinatingly horrible or is it just horrible fascinating? I don't know.

ALIEN 5: HEY MAN!

I really wanna play Alien: Isolation. Even if the last horror video game I played made me jump about and flail like a fish at the first jump scare. Once again, humans feel they must confront such things. Or run. Probably just run. Well, run and hide. Yeah. That makes sense...

MIXED BAG. TABLETOP TALES! ELDER SIGN REVIEW!

TABLETOP TALES PRESENTS

ELDER SIGN REVIEW!

Designers: Richard Launius & Kevin Wilson
Artist: Dallas Mehlhoff
Publishers: Fantasy Flight Games
Type: Card Game
Themes: Sci-fi & Fantasy, Horror, Adventure & Strategy
# of Players: 1-8
Ages: 14 & Up
Time to Play: 60-120 min.
Approx. Price: $40-50

WORD OF THE DAY! 4/19/11.

Lovecraftian horror [luhv-kraft-ee-uhn-hor-or]
noun
1. A sub-genre of horror fiction which emphasizes the cosmic horror of the unknown (and in some cases, unknowable) over gore or other elements of shock , though these elements may still be present.

Lovecraftian [luhv-kraft-ee-uhn]
adjective
1.  Anything pertaining or related to the genre of Lovecraftian horror or H.P. Lovecraft.

EX. Lovecraftian horror has a special place in the world of literature, using arguably both more refined and effective methods of horror over gore and fluff, and also has a special place in video games. In particular, Amnesia: The Dark Descent (2011) clawed its way screaming and crying to being one of the sleeper hits of last year and made itself one of the scariest titles of all time. The game involved little action, save running, and focused primarily on creating an atmosphere that would lead anyone into a paranoid frenzy.

You can pick up the title for about $20 or, if you use Steam, you can probably get it for less. Just make sure not to run into the dark or- What was that? My lantern went out? What the- no! NO! GET AWAY! GET AWAY! MRMEREGTMHYMR$HYUME$HYME##$MW@!