As you say there's a certain cyclical quality to it all - liberal children of the 60s becoming more conservative as they get older. I suppose we all do to an extent? There's films I liked as a youngster I wouldn't bother with now because I find the blood, snot and teeth quotient a bit too much.

I think it was a bit of a golden age for pulp horror.

You know, I kept expecting them to mention The Wicker Man but that's because it was one of the few movies that I was aware of. I don't think I had ever heard about Robin Redbreast and I'm all the more interested in seeing it now because of that connection to your neck of the woods! It's on DVD but ...

It was nice to hear Robin Redbreast getting some coverage, instead of the similar but far better known Wicker Man. It's set in me and Lee's part of the world and all the more disquieting for being local. I recently watched it again, with my parents. My Mum really liked it!

I used to like the monsters of the week episodes of the X-Files. As i've said before I always found them and the Silence of the Lambs inspired behavioural science stuff much more fun than the rather banal UFO story arc. I'd certainly consider getting this based on your review, especially as it seems...

A survey of 1970's pop-occultism from the Radio 4 archive website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05qvr63 Presenter Matthew Sweet hams it up quite a lot, particularly in the introduction, but I found the programme interesting. Given Dark Conspiracy's retro vibe I think you could find some inspira...

Summerfield looks like it might be on a well known video sharing website - must give it a watch some time soon.

The Quiet Earth - post-apocalyptic and I believe it was the first sci-fi movie ever made in New Zealand I remember The Quiet Earth being on TV here in the UK, many years ago. Hasn't show up since. I wouldn't mind seeing it again. Strangely enough a mate and I ended up talking about it down the pub ...

I think you could use the Cthulhu Rising background to run a straight "BRP" powered Aliens game without mentioning the mythos at all. The Cthulhoid stuff in it is fairly broadstrokes and unintentionally hilarious at times - the big bads behind one of the galactic wide conspiracies is...wai...

He had been really hyped for it and was pitching an Alien game to the group. Then he got the book, read it, and decided to run Call of Cthulhu instead. He could always get the Cthulhu Rising monograph and have the best of both worlds. The CoC rules modifications in that are a bit shaky at times (I ...

I'd much rather support an outfit like Zozer who turn out quality material for tried and tested games at reasonable prices, than a publisher whose main effort seems to have gone into massively over engineered products with prices to match, and founded on what sounds like a pretty shaky game system. ...

As for the gimmick dice thing I'm undecided, having not played any Year Zero stuff yet. Alien RPG game and stress dice - around £15* a set. Whole thing reeks of blatant profiteering to me. * that's around what I paid for the HOSTILE book i.e. a complete rpg setting based on an open source game.

Didn't one of the Demons in the DC rulebook have an Indian appearance? It's probably something to do with him/her.

Ironically enough, I think the Year Zero rules might have been a better fit for Dark Conspiracy because DarkCon has room for the faster, cinematic style that those rules create, although I am still very much not keen on the use of gimmick dice to aid gameplay. The gimmick dice was what put me off, ...

Mentioned it already but if you want something closer to a GDW system there's Modern War by Zozer Games which runs off Cepheus Engine. I always found T2000 quite boring but I wouldn't mind a game that lets you simulate some fast and furious guys-on-a-mission WW3 action. Like James Rouch's "The ...