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‘Absention’ is Like ‘Groundhog Day’, Only Spooky
A lot of people, myself included, mistook Gone Home for a horror game just because it followed a woman who must search an empty house at night during a thunderstorm — a classically spooky setting — for clues that might tell her where her sister went off to. Absention is an indie horror game with a similarly eerie setup, only this time, it comes with the goal of scaring you so bad you’re forced to sleep with a ZF-1 gun under your pillow.
In Absention, your character pays a visit to the exorbitantly expensive lake house they just inherited after their father mysteriously disappeared. Because this is a horror game, we can look forward to solving the house’s puzzles, uncovering its sinister secrets, and confronting our demons — including at least one literal monster.
Then we can do it all over again, because did I mention you’re also stuck in a time loop?
Absention is in pre-alpha right now, so it’s still a long ways off. It’s currently on Steam Greenlight, in case you’d like to give it a thumbs up. I’m sure its developer would appreciate it if you did.
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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