![]() Thomas, unfortunately, is nowhere to be seen when she arrives instead she’s greeted by the spirit of a young girl called “Sadness,” who has fractured memories of being alive when the resort was active. Lacking any other way to uncover her past, Marianne agrees. He says he’ll give her answers if she’ll meet him at the former Niwa Workers’ Resort, an abandoned Soviet-era vacation spot that closed down when a staff member massacred a number of guests. Now, wracked with grief after the death of her elderly foster father, Marianne receives a shocking phone call from a stranger named Thomas, who not only knows who she is and what she can do, but also about a recurring dream that has plagued her since childhood-and which she’s never described to anyone. Marianne has made it her life’s work to help spirits trapped in the other realm find peace and move on to whatever might await them. As a medium, Marianne can move through the spirit world, a disturbing purgatory where restless souls wander when they’re unable to cross over to their final rest. The Medium casts you as Marianne, a young Polish woman raised in foster care with no memory of her early childhood. ![]() Bloober Team’s aptly titled horror adventure The Medium gives you that chance, and while its vision of the afterlife is so effectively harrowing that you’ll likely be cured of any such real-life ambitions, its confused, disjointed story never manages to live up to those scares. The medium, then-a living soul who can connect with the world of the dead-is among the oldest of human archetypes, and it’s a role that most of us have imagined taking on ourselves, if only idly. The dread of something after death has always lurked at the back of human consciousness, and it’s no stretch to say that nearly everyone has dreamed of one day being able to glimpse what lies beyond the veil. Shakespeare, not surprisingly, had it right. When we have shuffled off this mortal coil ![]() For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come
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