A Freudian nightmare in clay and cardboard
A young couple, Victor and pregnant Alicia, move to a somewhat decrepit urban apartment building, only to find out that their elderly landlord, lonely and mysterious Mr. Morton, is spying on them and the other tenants through a sophisticated surveillance system. In an attempt to catch him red-handed, Victor stumbles upon an unimaginable discovery...
Cutely naif, hand-painted human figures and gorgeous scenery, lovingly constructed from clay and cardboard, a "difficult" as well as fascinating tale of existential quest, intensely peppered with elements of Nietzschean philosophy and daring - towards the end, in particular - Freudian concepts (without forgetting the ever-present Lovecraft), surreal humor and surreptitious poetry comprise the exquisitely weird and, progressively, even weirder universe of The Dream Machine. A tumultuous trip into painfully familiar and dangerously unknown territory, where dream and allegory, fantasy and the subconscious creep in unpredictable ways into reality, altering it to sometimes alarming degrees.
The Dream Machine is an understated little masterpiece paying discreet yet cunning tribute to classic games of the genre, but not exclusively - such as Sanitarium, the Gabriel Knight trilogy, Duke Nukem and several others.
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