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Solve the Mystery Behind a Freaky Urban Legend in ‘Wick’

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I’ve always been fond of urban legends. I must’ve attempted to conjure Bloody Mary from a bathroom mirror dozens of times in my youth, and I’m sure I’ve quoted the famous “The call is coming from inside the house!” line from the legend of the doomed babysitter many more times than that. The raw, trembling excitement I’d get when recounting these tales was endlessly enjoyable, so when I first started experimenting with creative writing as a teen, I kept that passion alive by coming up with my own stories.

This is what the folks behind the indie horror game Wick have done, and what they’ve come up with could easily fit in the repertoire of unnerving stories many of us had ingrained in our memories years ago. It’s the classic combination of a cautionary tale set in an eerie environment — more specifically, a forest in which children have been known to go missing.

In Wick, the objective is simple: to survive the horrors that reside in what looks like an exceptionally spooky forest long enough so you can find the kids who are surely dead by now. You’ll do this by candlelight, and since this is a horror game, your sole source of light also doubles as the one thing that’s keeping you safe from the forest-dwelling horrors I mentioned earlier.

Wick is available right now for $10 on Steam because it’s a new release. Grab it before January 4 and you’ll save a few bucks.

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Gamer, writer, terrible dancer, longtime toast enthusiast. Legend has it Adam was born with a controller in one hand and the Kraken's left eye in the other. Legends are often wrong.

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‘Dead Mail’ Exclusive Images: SXSW Horror Movie Begins With a Blood-Stained Postal Box Delivery

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One of the genre films we’re looking forward to checking out at SXSW this year is Dead Mail, written and directed by Joe DeBoer and Kyle McConaghy and premiering on March 9.

Meagan Navarro will be reviewing Dead Mail for Bloody Disgusting as part of her SXSW coverage, and she writes in her preview for the upcoming fest: “Dead Mail leans heavily into the ’80s analog aesthetic, delivering a unique crime thriller unafraid to get offbeat with its dark narrative. Expect its characters to be as atypical as Dead Mail‘s sense of style.”

In the SXSW 2024 horror film…

“On a desolate, Midwestern county road, a bound man crawls towards a remote postal box, managing to slide a blood-stained plea-for-help message into the slot before a panicking figure closes in behind him. The note makes its way to the county post office and onto the desk of Jasper, a seasoned and skilled “dead letter” investigator, responsible for investigating lost mail and returning it to its sender. As he investigates further, Jasper meets Trent, a strange yet unassuming man who has taken up residence at the men’s home where Jasper lives.

“When Trent unexpectedly shows up at Jasper’s office, it becomes clear he has a vested interest in the note, and will stop at nothing to retrieve it…”

Sterling Macer, Jr., John Fleck, Susan Priver, Micki Jackson, Tomas Boykin, and Nick Heyman star in Dead Mail. Preview the film with an exclusive image gallery below.

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