PLAY: The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt

It's time to bring this thing back from the dead. It's been a long bout of meditation and upon my return I have found in my lap CD Projekt Red's The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt. A rekindled love affair as I had played this once already, but with the arrival of new DLC via the Expansion Pass, it warranted a second playthrough.

A whole slew of free downloadable content has kept players tethered to the vast fielded and mountainous lands of Temeria where, playing as the titular protaganist, Geralt of Rivia is on the search for his adoptive daughter Ciri under orders of the Emperor Emyhr var Emreis while battling off the Wild Hunt who require Ciri for their own ends. It's a long and winding epic, the final in a trilogy based on the Polish book series by Andrzej Sapkowski. The series has been praised massively for sticking, like glue, to the source material and realising it in astonishing detail.

WATCH: Evil Dead [2013]

My earliest horror film memory was of Nightmare On Elm Street when Tina was dragged up the walls, screaming. My second was of Pennywise the Clown pulling a little boy down a drain. Somewhere along the way was the memory of a girl being raped by branches in the woods. That was what I remembered from Evil Dead. A bit of background and some refreshing new views on this comedy-horror franchise; it certainly is difficult to view a remake of a film without having seen or having prior knowledge of the previous entries in the series. Back then, I thought Evil Dead was cheesy, outdated but certainly had a story to tell, buckets of fake blood and horrifying creatures of the night. All with a low-budget but cinematically unnerving to watch. Today, I still think Evil Dead is cheesy and certainly prefer the second installment in the series for its cleaned up appearance while still delivering a story, comedy-horror and memorable moments. The dead hand, laughing furniture, dancing dead girlfriend and chainsaw hand are keynotes in horror cinema history.