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Alfred Hitchcock and his masterpiece Cold sweats in the heart of a video game

2021-06-16T15:29:32.957Z


The player will play a writer who comes out unscathed from a car accident and struggles to convince the world that his wife and daughter are missing.


Here is yet another proof of the impregnations of cinema in video games.

A video game

"loosely inspired"

by

Cold Sweats

, by Alfred Hitchcock, will be released according to Gematsu by the end of the year.

The game, published by Microids and developed by Pendulo Studios, will borrow its name from the legendary film released in 1958. It is not the first time that an Alfred Hitchcock film has inspired a video game, since a game of he adventure dedicated to the British director had already been released in 2001 (

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Final Cut

).

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“Of course, Alfred Hitchcock's film was a major source of inspiration, whether it was for the themes of the game, its narrative or even the visual techniques we used that reflect Hitchcock's recurring cinematic techniques. »

, Explains one of the game's developers. The thwarted tracking shot, a cinematographic effect first used by Alfred Hitchcock on the set of

Cold Sweat

, will be incorporated into the game. This effect appears in the film when Scottie (James Stewart) , prone to vertigo and hanging from the gutter of a roof, looks down at the street, then when he looks down a stairwell.

References to

Rebecca

and

Psychosis

But the video game is not a simple adaptation of

Cold Sweats

 : it draws its inspiration from all of the director's filmography.

Cold sweat

is not our only frame of reference.

For example, the fact that psychotherapy is at the heart of the narrative framework echoes

The House of Doctor Edwardes

, and characters resemble protagonists of

Rebecca

,

Psychosis

and many others, ”

continues the game developer.

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The game will follow a writer named Ed Miller, who comes out unscathed from a car crash in a canyon in California. Although no one was found in the wreckage of the car, Ed insists his wife and daughter were also on board. Traumatized by this event, the protagonist begins to suffer from vertigo. By starting psychotherapy, he will try to finally shed light on what happened that day. A synopsis that promises to recreate the agonizing atmosphere specific to the films of the master of suspense.

Source: lefigaro

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