Every child who falls in love with a fantasy novel dreams of its big-screen adaptation. But every adult who has seen that monkey’s paw curl knows the cost. The director’s lens replaces the mind’s eye, becoming the definitive vision of a place that was once malleable and personalised. That beloved world shrinks to become tangible – sacrificing the infinite scale and limitless budget of the imagination.
It’s this conundrum that haunts, a new version of , a text adventure from the late 1970s.