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Evil Dead is On its Way to iPad, iPhone
Is that a boomstick in your pants or are you just happy to see me? Forget the 3DS and the NGP (PSP 2), because Apple’s iPad and iPhone are becoming the top choices for gamers on the go. Need proof? How about a steamy dose of boomstick flailing action in the upcoming Evil Dead? Yes sir, it looks like Sam Raimi’s campy horror classic that helped make Bruce Campbell the demigod he is today will soon be . The game’s currently in the approval phase before it can make it to the iTunes store but when it does the game will be available on both the iPad and iPhone for $4.99 and $2.99, respectively.
Evil Dead is an “action-heavy 3D shooter” that will be made up of 30 levels spread across two chapters where you take control of Ash (Bruce Campbell) as he leads his friends to safety while being insanely awesome. The first chapter follows the plot of the first film while the second is a completely new story and all of this will be accompanied by the film’s actual score. Yes. Please. Hollywood has always taken classic films and remaking them but it wasn’t until the last decade that the trend became incredibly popular. Now it would seem this movement might be shifting into the realm of video games, but in a really good way.
Who knows? If this does well enough it could reinvigorate the franchise, bring in new fans and mark a glorious return to one of the best horror classics in the last three decades, maybe even bring us one step closer to a new Evil Dead movie. One can only hope.
News via the Hollywood Reporter
While you wait for Alien: Romulus, the folks over at Devilworks have cooked up their own slice of “mockbuster” fun with Alien Hunt, and we’re debuting the trailer here on BD this morning.
This brand-new sci-fi horror from director Aaron Mirtes (The Bigfoot Trap, Painted in Blood) is set for its US premiere on May 14, and you can find it on digital thanks to Devilworks.
You can exclusively watch the official trailer for Alien Hunt below, which looks to combine elements of Alien and Predator. This particular “mockbuster” has very little interest in hiding its inspirations, with the alien designs plucked straight out of H.R. Giger’s beautiful brain. Hey, if you’re going to pull from other movies, might as well take from the all-time greats!
In Alien Hunt, “On a hunting trip in the wilderness, a group of siblings discovers an abandoned military outpost on their land, but is it what it seems?
“Their trip takes a sinister turn when they find themselves facing off against a relentless army of extra-terrestrial beings. Suddenly, the hunters become the hunted.
“The formidable squad of alien soldiers will stop at nothing to wipe out the enemy and in an all-out, brutal battle for survival, it’s kill or be killed in Alien Hunt.”
Barron Boedecker (Escape Pod, The Bigfoot Trap), Brent Bentley (The Perfect In-Laws, Haunt Season), Deiondre Teagle (The Visitor, Painted in Blood, Death Ranch), Chelsey Fuller (The Bigfoot Trap, The Silent Natural), Jesse Santoyo (A Nashville Country Christmas, Potter’s Ground), and Adam Pietripaoli (The Bigfoot Trap, The OctoGames) star.
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