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‘Stifled’ Trailer Investigates a Strange Noise
While many video games could get by on their visuals alone, the same cannot be said about the horror genre, where sound design isn’t a flourish, but a critical and often mandatory factor in determining how effective a game is at immersing players in its world so they can be more easily frightened. This is doubly true of Gattai Games’ upcoming “sound-based stealth thriller” Stifled, in which every sound you make is an invaluable tool for navigating the world, when it’s not actively being used against you. Cause too much of a raucous and you’ll just attract the attention of the unsavory types that wander about in the darkness.
Stifled is a spiritual successor to Lurking, Gattai’s award-winning student project that introduced the core concept of the studio’s next title. Using optional mic input, both games are designed to match the the player and their actions, encouraging the strategic use of both as the world and the horrors that inhabit it are revealed and illuminated by your every move.
No release date has been announced yet, but when Stifled does arrive, it will be on PC. And if you think this looks interesting, I highly recommend you check out The Deep End Games’ similarly themed horror game Perception that also uses echolocation, albeit in a slightly different way.
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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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