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‘Outlast 2’ Takes Up Arms in New Image
Red Barrels really hit the ground running with their viscerally frightening video game debut, which, incidentally, involved a considerable amount of cardio. The just-announced Outlast 2 only recently began to slowly reveal itself to us, but it’s a safe bet the sequel won’t stray very far from what worked so well the first time around.
Of the many promising horror games we have to look forward to in the coming year, this may be the game that’s the most interested in pleasing gorehounds. To say Outlast was liberal with its gore is like saying Michael Myers is sort of interested in masks. Saying the game used gore like it was going out of style would be a more accurate way of describing it.
As much as I enjoy ruminating over the troubling revelations that slow-burn horror games like SOMA often leave me with, that style of horror game can’t satisfy my desire to be thrown from my seat by a sudden scare when I make the mistake of lingering too long so I can take in all the gruesome details of what’s probably a human meat closet.
Outlast 2 hits PC, PS4 and Xbox One this fall.
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‘Dead Mail’ Exclusive Images: SXSW Horror Movie Begins With a Blood-Stained Postal Box Delivery
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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