This time, it's Billy O'Brien, the writer-director of 2005's impressively straight-faced Frankencattle horror Isolation, going west and adapting Dan Wells's young-adult novel into a pleasingly macabre study of a mixed-up teen who could be a Dexter-in-waiting.
Matthew Kieran wrote, in his 2005 essay on the painting, that "these frightened, blind, raging figures are visceral in their impact, jolting one into sensations of fright, horror, isolation and angst.
Anomalisa is about the horror and isolation of that – but also about a larger loneliness borne of living in increasingly identik world.
How does someone find hope when locked up for 23 hours a day in a 6ft by 9ft cell when the only view of the outside is through a tiny window which offers a sliver of sky?" The piece is intensely emotional and evocative of the horrors of isolation and incarceration.
For example, as Cambodia emerged in the 1990s from three decades of isolation, horror, civil war and Vietnamese occupation, quotas brought foreign investment, especially from Hong Kong and Taiwan, in clothing factories.
Right now, the UK developer Creative Assembly is putting the finishing touches to its horror game, Alien: Isolation, a title that promises a rediscovery of the fraught tension and stylistic vision of the original movie.
There is plenty in his amorous adventures and periods of depression to explain this state of affairs: a puritan education, failed relationships, periods of isolation, horror of middle-class existence.
But in the big league too are the pant-spoiling horror of Alien: Isolation (set 15 years after Ridley Scott's movie), the latest historical stealth adventure in the Assassin's Creed series, and the cult sword-swirling action ballet, Bayonetta 2. What should I buy?
A charter of Sigebert III, king of Austrasia entrusted Remaclus with both monasteries of Stavelot and Malmedy a few kilometres eastwards in the Ardennes forest, "a place of horror and solitary isolation which abounds with wild beasts".
For something more intrepid, Nomad Cinema sets up in the middle of Hyde Park on Friday for isolation horrors including The Shining and Cabin In The Woods.
Unlike a survival horror game, in which isolation and fear deliver the adrenaline, a futuristic combat game like Gears 2 is meant to provide a sense of group camaraderie as you inevitably set out to save humanity from the mutant/alien menace.
