Worse than the sheer tedium of shooting is the effect it has on the game’s atmosphere.
The game’s survival-horror elements don’t come close to capturing the existential unease of Lovecraft’s original story.
Review: Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities: My Notebooks, Collections, and Other Obsessions
by Chuck Bowen
Throughout, Del Toro’s book obliterates repugnant notions of “high art” and “low art.”
The straightforward story gives the novel the impression of a child’s nightmare.
It’s refreshing to see The Sessions unostentatiously treat intercourse as a normal need that most people counterintuitively associate with taboos.