Podcasts
Revisiting the Most Divisive ‘Devil May Cry’ Games [Safe Room Podcast]
Before listening to this week’s Devil May Cry-centric chat, check out last week’s episode discussing the original Dead Space!
No matter your age, we all have glaring back catalog oversights. Games that we missed due to console allegiances or simply being too far removed, age-wise, from their initial release. And while I used to view these oversights as embarrassing, over the years, I have come to appreciate my somewhat unique position of being late to the party for several behemoth franchises.
Case in point: Ninja Theory’s 2013 DmC: Devil May Cry reboot.
While it’s difficult to be oblivious to DMC’s importance to the action horror genre, it wasn’t until last year that I played the original in the storied series. Being the DMC novice I am, I was excited to dive into DmC, given my lack of entrenched fandom for the series.
Now, I think it’s fair to label Ninja Theory’s crack at Dante as infamous, as far as some fans of the franchise are concerned. A new take on a younger Dante and a streamlining of the world of DmC being the most significant cross some simply refused to bare. As I had absolutely zero reservations about the change in voice actor and depiction (a depiction that isn’t all that far removed, to be honest), I was immediately taken with engaging and responsive combat with environments far better constructed than most hack-and-slash titles.
Granted, I have never been especially precious about reboots or remakes (if I want to experience something similar to the original, I would simply go back and play that), but DmC strikes me as a prime example of portions of a fandom depriving themselves of a fantastic experience due to one or two sticking points.
This is something that Neil, myself, and our guest – Senior Editor of Playstation Universe & co-host of the Playstation Unchained podcast – Garri Bagdasarov, unpack in more depth during our chat celebrating Devil May Cry 2‘s 20th and DmC: Devil May Cry‘s 10th anniversaries, respectively! – Jay Krieger
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Next week sees our first episode of The Inventory for 20233. This is where we review some of the notable horror games released in the past month, and this one kicks off the year with a bang as we’ll have a review of the Dead Space remake!
Podcasts
Ableism, Representation, and Perverse Sexuality in ‘Wait Until Dark’ [Horror Queers Podcast]
After concluding April with discussions of Ciarán Foy’s Eli (listen) and David Cronenberg’s eXistenZ (listen), we kicked off May with a revisit of Stephen Sommers’ delightful 1999 film, The Mummy (listen).
Now we’re headed into the past with Terence Young‘s adaptation of Frederick Knott‘s “disabled woman in danger” play, Wait Until Dark (1967).
In the film, recently blind Susy (Audrey Hepburn) is menaced by a trio of strange men, including sexually perverse ring leader Roat (Alan Arkin), “nice guy” Talman (Richard Crenna) and portly Carlino (Jack Weston). The men are looking for a doll full of heroin, which is located somewhere in her apartment, but she doesn’t know where!
Can Susy figure out the scam with the help of upstairs neighbor girl Gloria (Julie Herrod) or will she wind up hanging in the closet like Roat’s poor accomplice Lisa (Samantha Jones)?
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Episode 281: Wait Until Dark (1967) feat. Ariel Baska
Smash all the lights and strike a match because we’re talking about disability horror, Audrey Hepburn and Wait Until Dark (1967).
Joining us for the conversation is disability documentary filmmaker Ariel Baska, who has a love/hate relationship with the film and its contribution to “cripping up.”
Plus: that famous jump scare, accusations of misogyny and ableism, the gross history of “Ugly Laws,” and the return of Trace’s recurring joke about Charade.
Cross out Wait Until Dark!
Coming up on Wednesday: We’re going into genre-adjacent territory with a look at Gregg Araki’s horrifying adaptation of Scott Heim’s novel, Mysterious Skin.
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