{"id":15261,"date":"2024-07-24T12:38:13","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T10:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/24\/im-not-sure-if-it-will-sell-but-it-should-exist-horses-a-surreal-lynchian-horror-game\/"},"modified":"2024-07-24T12:38:13","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T10:38:13","slug":"im-not-sure-if-it-will-sell-but-it-should-exist-horses-a-surreal-lynchian-horror-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/24\/im-not-sure-if-it-will-sell-but-it-should-exist-horses-a-surreal-lynchian-horror-game\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019m not sure if it will sell, but it should exist\u2019: Horses, a surreal Lynchian horror game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Creative director Andrea Lucco Borlera explains how this fever dream of a game came to be and why it\u2019s not afraid to get weird<\/p>\n

Naked people with horse heads for their noggins. Nightmares so vividly surreal they blur into reality. An uncanny farmer who never blinks and forbids you from ever<\/em> entering his room. If it feels as if I\u2019m trying to describe an untitled, yet-to-be-revealed A24 film, that\u2019s because Horses often feels like one. Like most games in Italian developer Santa Ragione\u2019s experimental catalogue, it defies easy categorisation.<\/p>\n

Horses was born from an image that entered director Andrea Lucco Borlera\u2019s mind when he was studying film at the Universit\u00e0 Roma Tre, he says. \u201cI had an image of naked people that act like animals and are led by impulses, with horse masks on their heads.\u201d At first it felt like an idea for a movie inspired by Jan \u0160vankmajer\u2019s phantasmagorical 1968 film, The Garden \u2013 but instead, the first-time developer turned it into a game unlike anything else you\u2019ll play this year.<\/p>\n

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\nCreative director Andrea Lucco Borlera explains how this fever dream of a game came to be and why it\u2019s not afraid to get weird
\nNaked people with horse heads for their noggins. Nightmares so vividly surreal they blur into reality. An uncanny farmer who never blinks and forbids you from ever entering his room. If it feels as if I\u2019m trying to describe an untitled, yet-to-be-revealed A24 film, that\u2019s because Horses often feels like one. Like most games in Italian developer Santa Ragione\u2019s experimental catalogue, it defies easy categorisation.
\nHorses was born from an image that entered director Andrea Lucco Borlera\u2019s mind when he was studying film at the Universit\u00e0 Roma Tre, he says. \u201cI had an image of naked people that act like animals and are led by impulses, with horse masks on their heads.\u201d At first it felt like an idea for a movie inspired by Jan \u0160vankmajer\u2019s phantasmagorical 1968 film, The Garden \u2013 but instead, the first-time developer turned it into a game unlike anything else you\u2019ll play this year. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Creative director Andrea Lucco Borlera explains how this fever dream of a game came to be and why it\u2019s not afraid to get weird Naked people with horse heads for their noggins. Nightmares so vividly surreal they blur into reality. An uncanny farmer who never blinks and forbids you from ever entering his room. If …<\/p>\n

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