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Ten years ago, the 2D psychological horror Lone Survivor made its mark on the indie games scene. Often cited as one of the strongest spiritual successors to Silent Hill, the crunchy pixel art and haunting soundscape felt like David Lynch by way of SNES. The story follows an isolated man wearing a surgical mask trying to maintain his mental wellbeing while exploring his apartment complex as a horrifying infection mutates those around him into shambling monsters. In honor of the tenth anniversary, creator Jasper Byrne sat down with us for...

Ti West‘s new slasher movie X was released by A24 in theaters on Thursday, March 17, scaring up $4.4 million in its opening weekend across 2,865 theaters in the United States. In its second weekend of release, X has fallen to the #6 spot on the box office charts, with the current domestic total at $8,298,028 and the worldwide total at $8,690,944. It’s likely at this point that the film will eventually hit $10 million at the global box office, which is not too shabby for such a wildly niche...

Any time a dev mentions Silent Hill as one of the inspirations for their game, we’re interested. Developer MystiveDev hopes to capitalize on that inspiration with their upcoming psychological Survival Horror game, Mirror Forge, which is set for release on September 29 on PC through Steam, and even has a demo available for download. The story for Mirror Forge puts you in the unfortunate shoes of Thomas Jackson, a troubled man whose drunk driving two years ago resulted in his girlfriend Jill’s coma and the loss of their baby. Compounded...

For this entry of Phantom Limbs, we’ll be taking a look at the planned but sadly unproduced second and third seasons of Amazon Prime’s I Know What You Did Last Summer. Though the show’s initial outing tied up its central murder mystery by revealing its killer and their motives, there were still plenty of plot threads left dangling to tease the follow-up episodes that would ultimately never come to pass. Joining us to discuss how the show’s story and characters would have continued and evolved in Season 2 and beyond...

QCODE‘s hit horror podcast series, The Burned Photo, will return for a second season, it was announced this week. Based on the suspense-filled and popular Reddit thread, The Burned Photo, tells the story of Felicia and Kira, two women, whose lives become intertwined when they discover they are being terrorized by the same generational curse that is determined to end each of their family lineages… but why? In Season 2 of The Burned Photo, Felicia and Kira, tired of being gaslit and terrorized, face up to Tanmitadore on their own...

Developers Saber Interactive have provided us with a new look at the upcoming Evil Dead: The Game this week, giving us our first taste at the game’s single-player missions. Evil Dead: The Game is coming on May 13, 2022, and this latest gameplay footage spotlights how good the game will look with NVIDIA DLSS enhancements. This latest trailer, however, also features “footage from the game’s bonus single-player missions,” which are said to “pay homage to classic Evil Dead scenes and lore.” Watch the latest gameplay trailer below and pre-order your copy today! In the...

Filmmaker and horror icon Larry Fessenden has developed an extensive career creating and supporting independent horror. The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is celebrating with a retrospective of Fessenden and Glass Eye Pix, the New York independent production shingle headed by the genre auteur. Running March 30 through April 19, the retrospective will run 26 feature films and numerous shorts, animations, and early works created during Glass Eye Pix’s 37 years of operation. It includes Fessenden’s directorial efforts No Telling, Habit, Wendigo, The Last Winter, Beneath, and Depraved. The retrospective, “Oh, the Humanity!” includes works by...

The black mamba’s venomous bite can be a death sentence. Gwynn and Adam Kealey dwell on this fact as they detect the slithering intruder inside their tent. But as the couple in Serpent becomes trapped with South Africa’s most fearsome snake, they ponder another dire situation at the moment: their marriage. Amanda Evans’ first feature starts off in busy Cape Town, South Africa where hardly a soul is seen other than the two protagonists. A dearth of other tangible characters reinforces the story’s sense of isolation. It feels like Gwynn...

Netflix’s supernatural horror series “Archive 81” debuted in January, where it quickly broke into the streaming service’s Top 10 and became a buzzed-about title. However, despite that attention, Netflix has opted not to move forward with a second season. Executive produced by James Wan, Deadline speculates that the numbers of viewers “did not meet the threshold Netflix had set for the series based on its budget.” The eight-episode inaugural season is based on the found footage podcast of the same name. “Archive 81” stars Underwater‘s Mamoudou Athie with “Altered Carbon” alumna Dina Shihabi, Martin Donovan (Big Little...

Based on the classic short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, movie adaptation The Yellow Wallpaper is set for release this month, and IGN has shared the official trailer today. From Mutiny Pictures, The Yellow Wallpaper movie comes to Digital on March 29. The film is said to be a “chilling and boldly original vision of madness.” Watch the trailer for The Yellow Wallpaper movie below. “Jane, a writer and young mother, is prescribed a rest treatment by her physician husband John, who takes her to a remote country estate for...

Welcome to the Hammer Factory. This month we dissect Lust for a Vampire (1971). While Hammer Studios has been in business since 1934, it was between 1955 and 1979 that it towered as one of the premier sources of edgy, gothic horror. On top of ushering the famous monsters of Universal’s horror heyday back into the public eye, resurrecting the likes of Frankenstein, Dracula and the Mummy in vivid color, the studio invited performers like Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Ingrid Pitt and so many more to step into the genre limelight....

It should come as no surprise whatsoever, but we thought we’d let you know that the official MPA rating for Evil Dead Rise has been handed down, and have no fear, it’s a hard “R”! The new Evil Dead movie from New Line Cinema is rated “R” for… “Strong bloody horror violence and gore, and some language.” Director Lee Cronin (The Hole in the Ground) jokes, “I thought about making #EvilDeadRise a warm family friendly PG, but, instead decided to rip that notion to bloody bits and pieces.” Evil Dead...

We’re living in a golden age for video game adaptations of horror franchises, with recent Friday the 13th, Predator and Alien games paving the way for upcoming games based on The Evil Dead and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. It would seem that all franchises are up for grabs on the video game front at this point, and that could end up including Phantasm. That is, if the franchise’s creator has any say in the matter… Don Coscarelli, who wrote and directed the original Phantasm and returned to direct three...

We pick up a proton pack and throw out a trap to catch a glimpse of IllFonic’s ‘Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed’ in our preview of the new multiplayer experience. In hindsight, it’s actually quite surprising we hadn’t seen an asymmetrical multiplayer Ghostbusters game before now. The format feels right for the license. IllFonic has spent the past few years honing its multiplayer chops, learning from mistakes, and getting a better idea of what’s needed from a modern asymmetrical experience. In Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed, it now has perhaps the perfect template for...