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‘Scratches’ Celebrates Its 10th Anniversary This Week

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Senscape’s Lovecraftian horror adventure game Asylum is going to release this year, I’m sure of it.

I’m not actually sure of that, not at all, but I do have hope. This game looks far too wonderfully haunting to share the sad fate of every other horror game-turned-vaporware. It needs to release so we’ll finally know if it’s the ambitious and beautifully atmospheric survival horror game that many of us fell in love with when it successfully raised nearly $120,000 on Kickstarter three years ago.

Okay, so this post was supposed to be about the 10th anniversary of Senscape’s classic indie horror game, Scratches, and while that’s absolutely worth celebrating, you know what I’d really like to celebrate? A release date for Asylum.

“Ten years ago today a famed writer spent three fateful days in the estate known as Blackwood Manor,” writes Senscape in a Facebook post that doesn’t mention Asylum, nor how I long for it. “The events which transpired during this period gave birth to one of the most beloved horror adventure games of all time, as well as unprecedented reported cases of phobia towards basements. Happy 10th anniversary, Scratches!!”

That’s sweet. In ten years time, when you and I are racing hover boards on the surface of Mars with our extraterrestrial friends, I hope we’ll holster our laser rifles so we can celebrate a similar anniversary of a game called Asylum. Until then, this is what Scratches looks like.

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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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