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By Heather Parish One of the things I admire about the Fresno City College theater program is that it regularly stages plays that hit the educational theater mission squarely on target. Shows that provide meaty acting opportunities for young people with themes relevant to college-age and twentysomethings are some of the most interesting new plays around. “Hookman,” directed by Summer S. Session, hits that target.Written by Lauren Yee in 2012 when the playwright was in graduate school and then debuted in 2015, she describes the play as an existential slasher comedy. Lexi (Cecilia Cantu) unexpectedly chooses UConn over UC Davis, where her friend Jess (Audrey Schaffer) enrolls. The tension between them is palpable during an In-and-Out run over Thanksgiving break. A trauma leads to a tragedy. This leads to confusion and isolation for Lexi, who retreats to the East Coast to avoid her feelings. It’s a psychologically damaging situation for anyone to be in, especially an 18-year-old three thousand miles away from home.The hook (so to speak) is that the Hookman, an urban legend that Lexi’s mother warned her about, begins to manifest in many ways in her life. Blood turns up everywhere. She sees things others don’t. And everyone around her becomes a perpetrator or a victim. Suddenly, her life is a slasher movie. Or at least a graphic novel.Cantu’s Lexi is at turns sympathetic and unlikeable, but that’s to be expected of a character with no real sense of who they are yet. As her friend Jess, Schaffer delivers strong scene work alongside Cantu. The cast of college-age characters surrounding Lexi capture snapshots illustrating how connecting with others is complex, opening the door for predatory threats in their lives.While the characters drawn may provide us with an examination of student isolation, they cannot alone deliver on the promised horror. The FCC production team does a fine job with the staging, sets, and projection work. Still, the lighting, horror effects, and direction lack the oomph to make the comedy stick or the horror land.The script has potential with plenty of gallows humor and dark comedy intended to bump up

"Hallucination" is the internal name given to a 2003 build of Resident Evil 4. It is otherwise known as "Hookman" in the English-speaking fandom, after a monster encountered in the E3 2003 demo, and is known to writer Yasuhisa Kawamura as "Ghost BIO" (心霊バイオ shinrei baio?).[1] "Hallucination" was the second build of the game after "Castle",[2] not counting the earlier Resident Evil 4 project which became Devil May Cry. Gameplay footage of this version was featured in the Biohazard 4 Secret DVD.[3] Both "Castle" and "Hallucination" were scrapped due to technical limitations which would cost too much to resolve.Plot[]"Hookman was merely an experiment and there was no true back-story.I wanted to make biohazard 4 scarier and suggested using a particular scene from the film "The Lost Souls", where the main character (played by Winona Ryder), while washing her hands in a bathroom, suddenly finds herself in a derelict building with a killer on the loose. An arranged version of this idea eventually turned into Hookman."— Yasuhisa Kawamura [4]"The second concept was that Leon was hit with a bizarre disease in which he started to see illusions and monsters that weren't really there. He would attack and strike out at them, but he couldn't do them any harm."— Hiroyuku Kobayashi.[5]Nothing is known of the "Hallucination" plot as the build was scrapped before a script could be completed. It would have included plot elements originally intended for the "Castle" build, as the developers intended to continue using the existing assets. Leon is

Infected with a virus in both builds, though experiences hallucinations in this build. The enemies were intended to be pseudo-paranormal in origin, being monsters existing only in Leon's mind. The E3 2003 demo showed enemy ideas such as living dolls and a hook-armed ghost coming out of a portrait, but these were likely only conceptual ideas to demonstrate the hallucinations.Gameplay[]Gameplay footage of "Hallucination" is comparable to "Castle" in certain aspects, such as the camera operating as a dolly-cam akin to Resident Evil Outbreak and Resident Evil CODE:Veronica, wherein it is on a pre-programmed path following the player. It should be noted, however, that the camera style changes during the "Hookman" fight, with the dolly-cam used unless Leon is aiming. Why the camera style changes here is uncertain.Leon's handgun includes a red laser sight, and he carries a flashlight, both ideas that made it to the final game. A dodge mechanic appears in the game, similar to the release version, though "Hallucination" includes a parry mechanic where button prompts (moving the stick and pressing either the L or R trigger when prompted) allow the player to ward off an enemy's attack. Leon using his flashlight and handgun to navigate a corridor. No HUD or inventory menu is displayed in the "Hallucination" demo. When in Caution, the word "Caution" flashes on the bottom-right corner of the screen to highlight Leon's health problems. Incendiary grenades appear to have their own dedicated button, as they are thrown at the living dolls without requiring a