Renegade Rip, issue 2, Sept. 21, 2022

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Opinion
The Renegade Rip www.therip.com
Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022
Review: “The
Last Of Us”
By Jaspreet Multani
Designer and Reporter
The Last of Us is a 2013 action-adventure survival horror
video game developed by Naughty Dog and published
by Sony Computer entertainment. This story is about a
14-year-old girl, Ellie, and a brain infection survivor, Joel, in
a post-apocalyptic United States. They both work together
to survive on their journey across what remains of the country
to find a possible cure for the modern fungal plague that
has nearly decimated the entire human race.
The Last of Us Part I is released in native 4K at 60
FPS*and features on PS5. This series has a deep and complex
narrative that players should probably be aware of before
they start down Ellie’s path to bloody retribution. The
first part was about Love, and the second one is all about
hate, as “Naughty Dog” says. The upcoming series will be a
darker continuation of the story, than the original.
Netflix show
is relatable
By Blake Burton
Reporter
The Netflix series “Never Have I Ever” began with an
Indian girl losing use her legs after sad death of her father
Mohan(Sendhil Ramamurthy). The girl, Devi( Maitreyi Ramakrishnan),
has to go through the first year of high school
in a wheelchair, which wasn’t very fun for her.
She is eventually able to get out of her wheelchair and was
ready to mingle or have sex with none other than the most
popular boy in school Paxton(Darren Barnet).
Thought the characters are young, this is a show people of
many ages would love. It involves heartbreaks, love, drama
and more. Created by Mindy Kaling (writer, producer and
star of “The Office” and creator of “The Mindy Project”),
this show will have you watching it for hours just to see what
is happens next.
Anyone who has been through high school will relate to
these characters on some level.
It is so watchable, and audiences will want to find out what
happens next for all of these characters.
Horror prequels
The Horror Files
By Eduardo Jr. Martinez
Reporter
Eduardo, Jr. Martinez
A prequel to a horror
film was release this this
month as “Orphan: first
Kill” (2022) a prequel to
“Orphan” (2009) center
on the character Esther
as she attempts to survive
in a wealthy household
while impersonating their
lost daughter. This movie
is not the first but the
most recent introduction
of horror movies prequels
that seems to present a
possible future for horror
films and how horror prequels
can be done right.
Pervious horror movie
prequels often carried a
reputation of not being
as good as their original
counterpart, often missing
the point surrounding
why the movie is so horrifying,
how the mystery
plays a role within horror
or, the fundamental aspects
that made the original
film enjoyable in the
first place. Not only does
a prequel movie have to
deal with these factors,
but they have to worry
about building anticipation
in new scenes and
creating the fear of the
unknown for something
that the audience already
have information about
due to it being a prequel.
“Orphan: First Kill” is
a movie that I would consider
to be equal or greater
to the original with how
it deals with emulating the
plot twist of the original
that dramatically changes
the film, acknowledges
the information that the
audience already knows
before watching and, understand
why the audience
are here to watch the
film in the first place is for
Esther.
The movie really encapsulates
the perfect
horror prequel as it had
a set course of where the
movie is leading toward
while providing audience
with a new and entertaining
experience that
respects the original film.
The flick opens up a
door of opportunity for
possible horror prequels
that center around the
slasher and their backstory
such as “Pearl” a
prequel to the film “X”
(2022).
Hopefully, the success
of “Orphan: First Kill”
and “Pearl” will spark a
revival of horror prequel
surrounding slashers such
as, Freddy Krueger from
“A Nightmare on Elm
Street” series, Charles
Lee Ray from “Child’s
play” series and Pamela
Voorhees from “Friday
the 13th” series.