The Witch's woodland farmhouse setting also counted as one of many backdrops of dread, pinning in the year's unluckiest of movie heroes: the quiet, empty spaces of a Manhattan mansion,
where the young caretaker of Mickey Keating's Repulsion homage Darling
comes violently
unglued; the London haunted house of James Wan's bigger, sillier The Conjuring 2, a spring - loaded funhouse ride of a movie; and the claustrophobic underground bunker of 10 Cloverfield Lane, which proved less a sequel to its blockbuster «cousin» than a feature - length Twilight Zone episode.
Over progressive titles, those parts have
come unglued from each other, and it's obvious
where developer Hideo Kojima's heart is.