Angel Heart and Planescape Torment

[Grudge]

Similarities I picked up in Angel Heart film starring Rourke and DeNiro released in 1987 and Planescape Torment PC game released in 1999. I used to think the latter was a brilliant originality but seems the former needs to be given that credit instead.

They both contain an amnesiac main character who:

- has wronged many people in a past lifetime
- got others to partake in his past dirty work
- tries to escape his fate with a ritual but could not succeed
- receives flashbacks of some memories, or receives memories from someone else
- is being chased by a powerful entity
- used and then discarded a lover
- operates in a curious, puzzling and foreign seeming setting or environment

[User]

"stroke me, for i wish to orgasm" they're not specific enough to be direct things but certainly thematically resonant, moreso than other amnesia films

[Corpsepyre]

Read Falling Angel as well. It's the book Angel Heart's based on. As much as I love the film, the book's on a different level. Same thing with The Exorcist and its follow-up, Legion.

[User]

fiction does not fit into my routine of the last three years unfortunately, i haven't read a novel for fucking forever

[shadowalk]

Planescape Torment

[Corpsepyre]

fiction does not fit into my routine of the last three years unfortunately, i haven't read a novel for fucking forever

Just finished two Philip K. Dick novels, back to back. Now reading a philosophical sci-horror first contact story named Blindsight. It's fucking amazing.

[Grudge]

fiction does not fit into my routine of the last three years unfortunately, i haven't read a novel for fucking forever

Your beer books are a fiction

[User]

that's a compliment, i'll take it