"[REC] 3: Genesis," the latest in the "[REC]" franchise and the first without the co-director Jaume Balagueró, strips away the strengths of its predecessors — among them a spooky sound design and gloomy, warrenlike location — to deliver an altogether brighter, jokier blood bath.
Subsequent brushes with supernatural horror make Jan wonder: Are Laura and Greg deliberately gaslighting her, or is she going mad? Cue the organ sting and rolling thunder, courtesy of Drew Dalzell's effectively spooky sound design.
Joe Levasseur's spooky, even menacing, design floods the space in a low haze, broken only occasionally by raw white lights.
Still effective, however, is the spooky, naturalistic sound design: as in Bryan Bertino's "Strangers," an old record player grinding to life delivers a jolt of eerie normalcy.
The supermodel truly embraces the spirit of the spooky holiday by designing, crafting and wearing the most creative and, at times, over-the-top costumes.
Total Chaos was built on Doom Legacy for a good decade or so because of its easy scripting, perfect for designing spooky moments.
Twenty years later, as a rising star at the Osaka-based game development studio Capcom, he was asked to design a spooky adventure game for the Sony PlayStation and Sega Saturn consoles.
But add to that his mastery of cutting-edge weapon design, his spooky anatomical studies of corpses (only one, of a "vecchio," is confirmed by the historical record), and the general aura of supernatural mystery lent to him by his spectacular genius makes him a wonderful hero.
Who designed the spooky red-and-black logo for the National Security Agency's Prism program?
But there are also more distinctive sources of unease in this series, including vengeful fathers and spooky bachelors with violent designs on little girls.
