{"id":9818,"date":"2025-08-23T10:36:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T16:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=9818"},"modified":"2026-01-23T21:24:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T03:24:04","slug":"incident-at-ravens-gate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=9818","title":{"rendered":"Incident at Raven’s Gate"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Now, here’s a movie where even talking about the random rolls used to get to it would be a spoiler. Well, okay. the style die was “Australasian”, it’s only the monster die that would be a spoiler. Still, though, it would<\/em> be, and Incident at Raven’s Gate<\/a> was good enough that I don’t want to spoil it, so.<\/p>\n

The movie starts with a burned out shell of a house being investigated, and then dumps back to five days earlier, where we meet the players: a super uptight sheep farmer (maybe?), his bored younger plant-growing wife, his fuck-up younger brother on parole, some annoying twerp barflies, the hot lady bartender, and the local cop who is obsessed with her. Add the drought-stricken central Australian landscape as a pressure cooker, and a mysterious outside force to push the button I guess?, and then watch the players progress from point A to the burned out farmhouse point B, with occasional flashforward interludes to the investigators.<\/p>\n

There are twists and turns, some predictable, some not, but it’s mostly a study of characters in crisis, and I very much dug it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now, here’s a movie where even talking about the random rolls used to get to it would be a spoiler. Well, okay. the style die was “Australasian”, it’s only the monster die that would be a spoiler. Still, though, it would be, and Incident at Raven’s Gate was good enough that I don’t want to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1417,1416,1395,91,513],"class_list":["post-9818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","tag-australian","tag-flixhouse","tag-random-number-generator-horror-podcast-9","tag-sci-fi","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9818"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9822,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9818\/revisions\/9822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}