Carrion casts players as an oozing red spaghetti beast with hatred in its heart, or in whatever is at the center of all those meaty tentacles. Phobia Game Studio offered a demo of their “reverse horror game” as part of The Game Festival, an interactive Game Awards tie-in event that gave players short looks at […]
The first teaser for John Krasinski‘s A Quiet Place: Part II is now playing exclusively in theaters, attached to Black Christmas, but the first image has arrived today for all to see. Courtesy of Games Radar, this first look at next year’s sequel highlights the return of Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds and Noah Jupe, reprising […]
This might be a formality for Capcom, but it could lead to something that we’ve been waiting for for a long time. According to a Twitter account that tweets out trademark applications in Japan from the “Public / International Trademark Gazette”, Capcom has filed several new trademarks. Apart from Power Stone and Rockman, the ones […]
There was one point in time where Tim Burton was set to adapt Richard Brautigan’s 1974 novel The Hawkline Monster: A Gothic Western, and the late Hal Ashby had been attached to direct an adaptation before him. Alas, neither project came to fruition, with New Regency much more recently acquiring the rights to the novel […]
Winter is a season often tied in with endings, death, sorrow, and the macabre. Leaves wither and die, trees stand aloft like forgotten skeletons of a bygone era, and the lush greenness of spring, summer, and fall is swapped with cloudy weather and heavy snowfall. Furthermore, winter drags the night—darkness—into earlier hours in the day. […]
A lot of people are talking about the new remake of Black Christmas, and that means that they’re also talking about Bob Clark’s classic original film, which came out in 1974 and helped lay the foundation for the whole slasher genre. But there’s another Black Christmas that’s getting overlooked in the conversation. Or should we […]
Fresh from the news that The Wolf Among Us 2 has been resurrected by the equally-resurrected Telltale Games, another Telltale property in the form of Batman: The Telltale Series is getting a re-release and some new DLC. Publisher Athlon Games and developer Telltale Games have announced in a now-deleted press release (someone hit the button […]
There’s a new Black Christmas in town, and this time it’s a very different film from the original. Even the killer is completely different this time. Instead of a mysterious creep named “Billy,” Sophia Takal’s remake is about sorority sisters who are hunted by a whole cult of homicidal misogynists. It’s a giant change to […]
In a surprise for many, From Software’s Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice snapped up the Game of The Year award at this year’s Game Awards. Sekiro also snagged the Best Action/Adventure Game of the Year, beating out heavyweights like Death Stranding, Resident Evil 2 and Control in both categories. Death Stranding didn’t go away empty-handed, however. […]
The massive success of John Carpenter’s Halloween kick-started the Golden Age of Slashers from 1978-1984, and as the first of that era, Halloween essentially created the blueprint for the modern slasher. Laurie Strode became the definitive model of Final Girl behavior. But ranking high among the best Final Girls in horror alongside Laurie is Jess Bradford, […]