Videogames in Horror Movies

This article discusses four movies in which transgressions between gameworlds and diegetic realities take center stage: Brainscan (1994), Stay Alive (2006), Livescream (2018), and Choose or Die (2022). By exploring the interactions between videogame worlds and "reality," these movies do no...

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Published inJournal of the Austrian Association for American Studies Vol. 4; no. 2
Main Author Michael Fuchs
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published University of Innsbruck 01.06.2023
Subjects
horror films
horror movies
intermediality
remediation
video games
videogames
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Summary:This article discusses four movies in which transgressions between gameworlds and diegetic realities take center stage: Brainscan (1994), Stay Alive (2006), Livescream (2018), and Choose or Die (2022). By exploring the interactions between videogame worlds and "reality," these movies do not simply project anxieties onto digital games, but rather reflect on media-specific affordances of videogames, inquire into discourses surrounding videogames, and explore game cultures. I am particularly interested in the strategies and aesthetics of remediating videogames in the horror films and the conceptualizations of videogames and game cultures thus produced, as well as the larger cultural fears and anxieties (and hopes and dreams) that these representations evoke.
ISSN:2616-9533
DOI:10.47060/jaaas.v4i2.197