The interactive survival horror video game becomes a demonic "Groundhog Day" minus the cleverness: a video-game thriller that's got no game.

Larry Fessenden and Graham Reznick wrote 10,000 pages and set a Guinness World Record for the 2015 video game, but such writers are rarely acknowledged in adaptations of their work: "I thought somebody would have bothered to throw in our names,

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