Suffocation — a psychological horror about a woman buried alive
A first-person psychological horror set in 19th-century winter Russia: a woman is taken for dead, but she is awake. Darkness, nails, breath and earth overhead. Available on VK Play. 18+
I must begin by saying that it was winter, and that Nadezhda Alekseyevna, despite her name, expected nothing good from it.
The lady Nadezhda falls into a lethargic sleep. The doctor spreads his hands, candles burn, the deacon reads the psalter, and everyone decides she is dead. She hears every word, but cannot cry out or move a finger.
- Darkness and fire: All you have is fire. It gives light but burns air. In the dark you see what isn't there.
- Nails and cracks: Pull the nails from the lid, break through the weak boards. Every blow costs your hands, and not every nail is real.
- Breath: Keep the rhythm. If panic overwhelms you, your hands stop obeying.
- The collapse: Getting out is not the end. The earth presses from above, and the coffin narrows.
- What should not be there: Voices from above, phantom nails, strangers' things in your hand, and whatever watches as the fire dies.
- The endless chain: Every coffin is a new form of the attack. Chase your record, buy relief with coins, meet random distortions.