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‘H1Z1’s New Zombie Will Leave Your Ears Ringing

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8 years ago

February 1, 2016

If you haven’t heard of the bullet ant, it’s an inch-long abomination with a particularly nasty bite that’s been compared to getting shot by a gun. In other words, it’s living proof that nature is actively plotting our downfall. And if that wasn’t sufficient enough proof of this, the bullet ant was blessed with another talent that’s clearly been designed by nature with sinister intent. It can scream.

I mention this because it’s the first thing that came to my mind when the makers of the zombie survival game H1Z1 took to Steam earlier today to announce a new type of zombie that will soon be making the post-apocalyptic wasteland a considerably scarier place to live. It’s my pleasure to introduce you to… the Screamer.

We’ve seen this guy before in Resident Evil 6, Killing Floor, State of Decay, and Dying Light, among others, and often with that same outfit. Killing Floor’s Siren wore one, and the Screamer would have too, had it not been cut from Left 4 Dead.

As much as I would’ve liked to see its creator, Cher — an intern at Daybreak Games, not the Cher — bring a new twist on the screaming zombie concept, it’d be hypocritical of me to criticize a design that’s alarmingly effective in instilling in me a primal fear that still resonates with my lizard brain.

No word on when it’ll come to H1Z1. I’ll let you know when that changes.

Adam Dodd

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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1 month ago

March 6, 2024

John Squires

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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