May 9, 20222 min readBack to School With Red Candle Games’ Historical Horror ‘Detention’ [Safe Room Podcast]Blending fictional horrors with historical atrocities is nothing short of an arduous task. If not handled with the care it is deserving of, one that could easily feel exploitative. But from the opening moments of Red Candle Games Detention, it’s clear that the studio has gone to great pains to impart personal pieces of its […] The post Back to School With Red Candle Games’ Historical Horror ‘Detention’ [Safe Room Podcast] appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.
Oct 8, 20215 min read[Review] ‘Detention’ is a Largely Successful Film Adaptation of Red Candle’s Taiwanese Horror GameThe bar for video game to film adaptations may be dreadfully low, but it’s still quite nice to be able to say John Hsu’s Detention is easily one of the better examples. Based on Red Candle’s excellent 2017 side-scrolling horror game of the same name, Detention delves into a bleak portion of Taiwan’s history to […]