Joseph Roy Wright
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Hello there!
My name is Joseph Roy Wright, the British author of over 30 Independent novels!
I like to write about movies, pop culture, fiction and horror! I review all the latest films (and classics), I also like to write short stories.
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Farcry 5 - Game Review
With Farcry 5's anniversary edition recently released, I figured it would be interesting to have a look back at this classic game and give you my take on it. In my opinion, this has got to be one of my favorite games on console, but mainly for it's impressive map editor (Arcade Mode), for the story and single player itself was fairly mediocre in all honesty.
By Joseph Roy Wright3 years ago in Gamers
The Silence - Movie Review
As a huge horror fan, I feel foolish waiting this long to finally get round to watching this modern classic. The Silence is a truly intense survival horror movie with a premise similar to that of A Quiet Place, with the monsters being these flocks of blind demonic bats (with super hearing), from deep beneath the earth's surface, much like the blind xenomorph style Aliens from out of space we see in the Quiet Place. The Silence feels both modern yet vintage with it's story, giving us plenty of zombie apocalypse vibes, while having our protagonists escape a hundred hungry bats, much like the Alfred Hitchcock classic, The Birds. However, the film is not without it's problems, which I will discuss within this review.
By Joseph Roy Wright3 years ago in Horror
The Last Of Us VS The Walking Dead
Two very similar ideas battle it out in this article. The Walking Dead and The Last Of Us now both have TV shows and video games. After playing and watching both series, I am here to finally settle this debate, what is the better zombie apocalypse story?
By Joseph Roy Wright3 years ago in Horror
The Last Of Us - TV Series Review
The Last Of Us TV show takes a lot of stunning and brave changes to the video game original! A lot of the episodes completely retell the events of the game, with entirely new story-beats, settings and characters. However, does this new HBO adaptation live up to the original game? Read on and I'll tell you what I think!
By Joseph Roy Wright3 years ago in Horror
The Walking Dead Tell Tale Series Ranked
In this review I will only discuss the four seasons of The Walking Dead Tell Tale games, none of the spin offs such as 400 Days and Michonne will be ranked. This is strictly all about Clementine and her story rated from worst to best.
By Joseph Roy Wright3 years ago in Gamers
Scream VI - Movie Review
Scream returns again, with familiar legacy characters and in New York too (just like Jason!). However, I feel like this new setting is rather underutilized though, we only get three scenes where New York is used to give us something new/special: The characters living in an apartment building rather than a house, comes into play in a very tense scene where Ghost Face sneaks inside without their knowledge. The neighbour across the street can see the killer stalking around, he tries to desperately get their attention, but the buildings separating them is too difficult for him to get any reaction! This is followed by a very tense scene, the neighbour throws a ladder across his window to their building, with a 50 foot drop between them! It leads into a rather gruesome death where one of the characters falls to the ground, after Ghost Face shakes her off the ladder. Another scene is used at the beginning of this movie, a character wanders down a very spooky alleyway. The New York setting gives this area an overwhelming sense of dread, making us feel tiny against the giant skyscrapers between our poor victim. She gets jumped and killed by Ghost Face, in a rather chilling jumpscare, that ends in a horrific slaying! The last scene is the best and it is in all of the trailers; Ghost Face shows up inside a subway train! This is a lovely nod to Jason Takes Manhattan (which is shown in the movie on a TV, just to confirm this reference); where our killer stalks our protagonists in the train, when the lights start flickering and Ghost Face sneaks up closer and closer, I was honestly sitting on the edge of my seat. These three scenes were a great change to the formula, giving us a new and exciting setting. Unfortunately the rest of the film could've been filmed literally anywhere else, as most of the scenes in this entry look no different than any other Scream movie in my opinion.
By Joseph Roy Wright3 years ago in Horror
Cyber Criminal: Web Of Lies
This is a preview for my next book, Cyber Criminal: Web Of Lies. It is about an infamous hacker who finally gets caught, he is quickly black mailed into using his hacking skills for good, rather than bad. However, our main character isn't exactly a goody two shoes, for he is a very selfish and cruel person, will this experience change him for the better?
By Joseph Roy Wright3 years ago in Fiction
Watch Dogs Should've Been Groundbreaking
Watch Dogs is a series of video games that (although still ongoing) could've developed into something truly remarkable, unique and fascinating. A video game where you play as a most wanted internet hacker/vigilante, a Robin Hood for the modern, tech sauvy age of digital corruption. The groundbreaking Mr Robot comes to mind when thinking of the perfect espionage thriller storyline, a narrative that could blend this gameplay idea together into something truly groundbreaking. Unfortunately Ubisoft over-promised their claims for the original game, Watch Dogs 1 received a massive graphical downgrade, the gameplay took a huge hit too, it looked worse, played worse and was far less immersive than what it was shown or hyped up to be. The hacking was (and still is) very simple and surface level, you simply tap one of four buttons to make a traffic light go green, lift a barrier or take control of a CCTV camera. You might be able to stun/distract people by hacking their phones from afar, or emptying their bank account for in-game cash (you evil gamer!), but outside of the blackout hack (missing in 2 & Legion), the hacking was nothing but a gimic, that only served to make combat and police chases easier. They never really did anything truly innovative with this mechanic (although cheating at poker using the casinos CCTV was a really clever touch). I do think 2 & Legion did add a lot more to the toy box, as you can now turn police and gangs onto eachother by sending false crime reports, hack a series of different drones and work vehicles; from scissors lifts to drones equipped with machine guns. It seems they have rarely tapped into the privacy side of hacking though, outside of a couple of story missions and side activities, we're never given the opportunity to expose an evil corporation, character or group, to use that information to blackmail them, or maybe return all their stolen money to the people who were robbed.
By Joseph Roy Wright3 years ago in Gamers
The Headless Horseman Of Halton Village
(This is a fictional horror story) Monday – 9/5/22: Throughout the years, many have speculated the existence of ghosts and spirits. Is there an afterlife? Is death really the end, or do we still linger on as lost spirits. These questions can never truly be answered. You either believe in the occult, find it non-sense or you are somewhere in-between, entirely unsure whether or not the supernatural exists. Well, an old friend of mine, Andrew Bates, would tell you it's all real! He first encountered his greetings with the dead, all the way back in 2001, a good 21 years ago when he was just a young boy in school. This was during that infamous murder case known as: The Skinners Incident, where a killer was going around town, skinning people alive! It was sick, but many (including Andrew) dared say that the killer had a paranormal origin. However whenever I mention this to him, he proclaims that this was all real and that the demon tormented him first, appearing as a black skeletal creature, with multiple wings and limbs like a Spider crossed with a Bat. It all sounded so ridiculous, even I doubted his sanity. There is one case however that is still fresh on all of our minds. The case which involved several mysterious be-headings near the areas of Halton Castle. This first began in 2011 a good 10 years after the bizarre murders in Runcorn and again; police were completely dumbfounded by the series of killings. No evidence to point fingers, they seemed to happen at random and I even met a woman who said she saw her boyfriend's head tear off by itself and fall to the ground in front of her, like some phantom ghost had chopped the man's head off with an invisible sword. Many who dared walk by the castle around 1-3am would sometimes be found be-headed and others have claimed to see a skeletal horse and headless knight in black, chase them around the castle grounds. These killings stopped by 2012 and nobody has mentioned the headless horseman since. Yet I've often heard echoes of a horse clattering across the castle grounds at night and some have even heard a man speak in old English screaming things like; "I strike you!", "You're all dead!" and "Have at it, fools!". Many find these bizarre occurrences to be humorous, but there is certainly a dark undertone to all of this. On some quiet mornings when nobody is around, I've heard many say that you can almost hear the faint war cries of ancient warriors battling over the castle and many say this ends with a horrifying scream that only lasts ten seconds, the same time a headless man is still conscious, before dying. Very creepy stuff, but it's hard to say if it's all just our imaginations playing tricks on us, being fully aware of the horrifying myth that surrounds the place. I'm fairly new to this town, only moving here in 2020 after the pandemic, I had to move somewhere cheap and settled into the Runcorn old town. I'll have to ask Andrew more about this when I next see him, for he's lived here all his life and he claims to be a psychic. As you probably guessed.
By Joseph Roy Wright3 years ago in Horror
Avatar: The Way Of Water - Movie Review
At last it is here! The (very) long awaited sequel to James Cameron's Avatar. Is it as good as the first, or is this another doomed sequel? Some say James is the king of movie sequels, so maybe Avatar: The Way Of Water is another stellar entry to his list of achievements. Well I'm here to tell you the answer is a resounding yes... and no.
By Joseph Roy Wright3 years ago in Geeks
Cabinet Of Curiosities - Series Review
Guillermo del Toro has done it again! The talented film director of Pan's Labyrinth, Pacific Rim, Pinocchio (2022) and many others, has given us another horrifying masterpiece. Spanning over 8 unique tales, all of which have morals and imaginative monsters, that will haunt you forever! Although I recommend watching these episodes in chronological order (even though I didn't), because the series ends with a very tragic story, which I wish I saved until the end. Each episode is a completely different horror tale however, so you can still skip around if you like and it wouldn't ruin the continuity of other episodes. Guillermo has a very unique style, everything feels like a dark fairy tale, from the oak furnished environments to the dated wardrobe the characters are often dressed in. Visually; Cabinet of Curiosities has a very old fashioned presentation, which seems to make the stories feel more grand and legendary, making the monsters involved feel more like cruel, ancient Lovecraftian Gods, rather than typical horror movie demons. Not one episode of this show is bad, every story has a unique twist or set up, no two tales ever feel the same.
By Joseph Roy Wright3 years ago in Horror
