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Fan Recreated Tom Savini-Designed Mask from ‘Friday the 13th: The Game’
We’re only 3 1/2 months into 2017 but we’ve already seen some pretty awesome things happen here in the horror world. One of the coolest? Tom Savini designed a new version of Jason Voorhees for the upcoming Friday the 13th: The Game, inspired by Jason Goes to Hell. Savini’s new take on Jason imagines what the slasher maniac would look like if he spent some time deep in the bowels of Hell – his mask is a charred black with deep slashes in it from doing battle with Freddy, and he’s got flaming eyes and spikes seemingly growing out of his body.
Naturally, we all went crazy for the makeup master’s new design, and one fan has now taken it upon himself to recreate the mask for his own collection. Check out his tutorial vid below!
Gun Media and developer Illfonic’s “Friday the 13th: The Game”, initially announced as “Slasher Vol. 1: Summer Camp”, was funded through Kickstarter back in 2015.
The game’s full multiplayer component will become available in early-mid 2017 and include Tommy Jarvis as a playable character. Movie setting Packanack Lodge will also be included in this release as a third playable map. This initial release will be followed by the full Summer 2017 release of the single-player component, including AI Bots.
Players who pre-order the game in digital or physical form will receive the single player component at no additional charge.
The best part about engaging with collaborative genre fiction on the internet is that anyone can get in on the action, with worldwide accessibility often resulting in absurd story beats that wouldn’t be possible if any single person was responsible for the entire narrative. And while Kane Parsons’ Backrooms film is definitely the young filmmaker’s own unique take on the infamous creepypasta, it’s fun to see other creators join the Backrooms sandbox now that the big screen adaptation is getting ready for a record-shattering opening weekend.
As if cleverly timed releases like Puppet Combo’s The Backrooms game weren’t enough (not to mention that Scary Movie poster poking fun at Parsons’ flick), McDonald’s official social media accounts have now released an analog horror video of their own celebrating the liminal terrors of the McRooms – complete with a familiar purple surprise at the end of the footage.
While it’s funny enough to see the world’s most recognizable Fast Food giant engage with internet-borne Found Footage thrills seemingly out of the blue, the video is actually referencing a long-running gag among the Backrooms fandom where creators jokingly talk about there being a fully functional McDonald’s restaurant hidden somewhere in level 0 of the infamous liminal labyrinth.
Now, would it be too much to hope for a moist-carpet-flavored McShake to tie in with the film?
Backrooms is now playing only in theaters from A24.
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