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‘Monstrum’ Announcement Trailer Offers Chills, Chases
If you’re fond of horror games that drop you in a creepy, labyrinthine environment, entirely unarmed, and task you with the singular goal of surviving long enough to escape the thing that’s hunting you, then 2014 is going to be the most exciting year of your life — video game-wise, at least.
The latest game to try out this formula is an indie survival horror title called Monstrum. In it, you’re alone and hunted by a mysterious creature through a massive, derelict ship. The game aims to force the player to be resourceful. Since fighting it isn’t an option, the only options that are available are to run, hide, or distract it long enough to run or hide. Monstrum will feature procedurally generated levels, permadeath, and support for the Oculus Rift VR headset. Read on for its debut trailer.
This is a theme of making the player feel helpless, alone, and hunted is becoming more popular lately.
We’ve seen a few games try it already — mostly revolving around Slender Man — and it looks like the natural evolution of that concept is taking the idea of being hunted and integrating it into a new environment with a new enemy. There are a bunch of games that are taking this concept and building a world around it.
Quadrant is set in a 1970’s NASA lab, Outlast: Whistleblower takes place in an asylum, Alien: Isolation in outer space, Routine on a Mars base, and both What She Didn’t Say and U55 – End of the Line explore abandoned subway systems.
Each share a similar concept, and they all look absolutely terrifying. Now I can happily add Monstrum to that list.
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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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