The game features gruesome and graphic violence, depictions of torture, and aberrant sexuality. Phantasmagoria became famous due to a huge controversy surround it because of the Hard-R content within the game. It’s kind of like playing a version of The Shining, if you played as Shelley Duvall who inadvertently gave Jack the first bottle of booze. When Adrienne stumbles upon the book – in an altar room cemented behind a fireplace – the spirit is released and possesses Donald, causing him to become an over-the-top crazy person. Adrienne and Donald just moved into an old spooky mansion once owned by a magician Carno, who built it for himself in order to present his own magic shows.Ĭarno had found a book that was full of black magic, allowing an evil spirit possessed his body that caused him to murder each of his four wives in various gruesome ways. The playable character of Phantasmagoria is Adrienne, a journalist married to Donald, a photographer. In 1995, in the midst of the multi-CD point-and-click interactive movie craze, Sierra released Phantasmagoria, a 7-CD length haunted house horror game. This isn’t the first time this debate has raged. With the release of the cinematic adaptation, also scripted by the author, a bunch of people rushed in to declare it feminist because they enjoyed it. Because it was written by a woman, the book’s take on gender roles and society prompted a closer look. If it were written by a man, the book would probably have been written off as the work of a bitter ex still sour about having his heart stomped on. The debate over Gone Girl and whether it is misogynist or feminist largely exists because it was written by a woman.

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