Butcher Block is a weekly series celebrating horror’s most extreme films and the minds behind them. Dedicated to graphic gore and splatter, each week will explore the dark, the disturbed, and the depraved in horror, and the blood and guts involved. For the films that use special effects of gore as an art form, and the fans […]
Announced early last year, Invader Studio’s third-person survival horror game Daymare: 1998 has a new teaser trailer. Set for release later this year (Third Quarter 2018, to be more exact) on PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4, the game will also have a VR release. In what was originally a group of friends that got […]
In the decade-plus since Grindhouse, there’s been a trend in independent genre film to pay homage to old-school exploitation movies. This is typically done in a winking, self-aware way, whether it’s digitally adding film scratches or dropping reels or deliberately crude gore effects or over-the-top ridiculous premises presented with ironic distance. The filmmakers need to […]
Ubisoft’s Far Cry 5 launched back in March, and to date, two of the promised three DLC experiences have joined the game. First up, “Hours of Darkness” brought the gameplay to Vietnam, and more recently, “Lost on Mars” has allowed you to fight alien monsters in space. Up next, “Dead Living Zombies” turns Far Cry […]
Hailing out of India, Vasan Bala is planning to kick Midnight Madness audience’s asses when The Man Who Feels No Pain World Premieres at this month’s Toronto International Film Festival. In this Bollywood-infused action film, a young man quite literally born with the ability to feel no pain strikes out on a quest to vanquish […]
We’ve talked about Fearem’s Daemonical a couple of times now. The game was last in the midst of its Alpha test (which allowed fans to sign up to participate). The team have now announced that after some development time, the game has finally been released on Steam Early Access (with a new trailer)! According to […]
Ask anyone that’s taken the plunge and they’ll tell you…Marriage is fucking terrifying. That’s exactly what’s at the core of writer/director Eli Thomas‘ Domestic Horror. What starts off as a silly, self-aware Scream parody slowly turns into a wry commentary on the marriage-industrial complex and how on some level it kills us all. Leaning more […]
Not only is slasher Dead By Daylight *free* for Playstation Plus members this month, but the game’s Summer event is going on now. It kicked off earlier this month and was supposed to end August 21, but we’ve learned that “Scorching Summer BBQ” has been extended. The team announced today… “The Entity has extended the Scorching […]
Mere weeks before The Predator arrives in theaters, we’ll meet The Dawnseeker. Premiering September 4 (VOD) from Uncork’d Entertainment, Justin Price’s new sci-fi horror actioner pits five mercenaries against a bootleg Predator creature… “2245, the Earth’s sun has dwindled and no longer provides the energy needed to sustain human life. Five hired mercenaries travel to an uncharted […]
Today Iceberg Interactive (the same folks who brought you the Lovecraftian adventure game Conarium) and developer Lazarus Studio have announced their new first-person survival horror game in Lunacy: Saint Rhodes. Due out next year for PC, the game was briefly featured on itch.io in demo form, but has now graduated to being on Steam. “In […]