For Your Ears Only: Are gamers too quick to pigeonhole horror? – with Anthony O’Connor




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Summary: (http://www.rawdlc.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/1-e1363087267225.jpg)There's been a little backlash thrown toward Dead Space 3 for supposedly not bringing enough scares to the fold. We grabbed horror film writer Anthony O'Connor to dissect what horror is and why are gamers so quick to judge what should and shouldn't be part of the genre. To get another dose of rawDLC check out our weekly podcast found via iTunes by searching for ‘rawDLC’. For those of you unfamiliar with our good buddy Anthony here's a blurb about him, by him. (http://www.rawdlc.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/8320_140156242652_6809558_n-150x150.jpg)Anthony O'Connor is a writer, film/game critic and scruffy ne'er-do-well. He has written screenplays for the Australian black comedy Angst, the office horror Redd Inc. (with Jonathon Green) and worked with Alex (The Crow) Proyas and Michael (Battlestar Gallactica) Rymer