Folk horror, from The Wicker Man to The Excavation of Hob’s Barrow, tends to elicit a highly specific mode of unease, one instinctively relatable to the social animal that is the human being: the vague certainty that everyone around you is privy to some vital piece of information you’re missing. This summarily describes the mood for Saturnalia’s cast of playable characters, who find themselves in the Sardinian town of Gravoi during the festival of St. Lucia on 21 December 1989. All are outsiders but somehow connected to the reclusive island community.
But this is no idyllic Mediterranean paradise. Rather, it’s a craggy fortress that a feeble sun paints the colour of rotten yolk, where the sea shimmers beneath jagged cliffs like a vast oil spill, and a sulphurous mist rises…
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Wireframe (Digital) - 1 Issue, #69