Archive 81
3.5/5
Critic Rating
Archive 81 is a fiction podcast about horror, cities, and the subconscious. New episodes will be released every other Wednesday. Start from "01 - A Body In A New Place"
Critic Reviews
Score: 4
Kev (Tea In The Sahara) • Tea In The Sahara • Feb 1, 2022
"The show’s theme is genius...These scenes are awesome making you feel that you can actually hear the cogs turning within Dan’s mind. The idea to have two characters from two separate timelines interacting within the same podcast space on paper sounds like insanity. I am here to tell you it undeniably works...The bumps in the road for me are within the shows execution, muddled audio, confusing scenes which led me to shave off one point. …"
Score: 2
Rob (The Cambridge Geek) • The Cambridge Geek • Oct 3, 2018
"I found this one a bit lacking, to be honest. The second (third?) hand playing of recordings makes them all feel a bit hypothetical, and I didn't really have much interest in what was happening in them."
Score: 4.5
Sarah Griffin • Irish Times • Aug 11, 2018
"It is a collage-form horror story that has three layered narratives, easily identifiable on top of one another. Three layers of storytelling all pasted over each other gives this podcast a really great, spiralling feeling and evokes wonderful horror at times. There are elements of the horror, post-modern storytelling and terrific sound design that were very effective. But if we are given a medium in which anything is possible, women don’t need to be the butt of the joke."