Spoilers ahead: for the puzzle and the movies/games
This page reveals all categories and answers for this puzzle. It also discusses plot details, story endings, and other spoilers for some of the movies/games shown.
easy
Children raised outside conventional society
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Parents move their children into wilderness, poverty, jungle, or an isolated bayou and make an ideology out of life beyond institutions.
medium
Corporate workplaces become survival tests
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An office, factory, exam room, or staff retreat keeps its corporate rules after the killing starts. Human resources cannot help.
hard
Shot mostly from the protagonist's first-person view
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The camera spends most or all of each film looking through the lead character's eyes instead of observing from outside.
tricky
The opening sequence is an in-story film production
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The first burst of action belongs to a movie being shot or watched inside the movie we actually came to see.