The Inpatient review – atmospheric virtual-reality chiller

Paul Bellow · Jan 27, 2018

It is a familiar horror movie setup: someone wakes to find themselves trapped in an asylum, with no memory of their past and a creepy doctor looming over them. But no matter how many times you’ve seen this on the big screen, it is very different when you’re the one strapped in the chair.

The Inpatient is a virtual reality thriller, which acts as a distant prequel to the 2015 horror adventure, Until Dawn. Having put on the required PlayStation VR headset, you find yourself in the gothic darkness of Blackwood Pines sanatorium, where ostensibly kindly Dr Bragg is administering some sort of treatment to retrieve your memories. But all is not as it seems in this shadowy old building, and when you’re thrown back into your locked room, a new cellmate starts to give you clues about a terrible local tragedy and your part in it.

At first, The inpatient is an extremely tense and atmospheric thrill-ride. Simple interactions with nearby objects bring up memory sequences, while branching conversations with staff and your increasingly erratic roomie decide the course of the narrative. The action is intercut with genuinely unsettling nightmare sequences jammed with jump scares, weird noises and scuttling beasts.
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