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E3: Bloody-Disgusting E3 Coverage: June 17th Day 3 Wrap-Up
It’s the third and final day of E3 2010. It’s been a great show with lots of exciting announcements and some pretty good surprises. Today we’re hitting the show floor to check out a few games and finally brave that long, long line to get our hands on a Nintendo 3DS.
To start the day off, we stopped by Konami’s booth to get some more info on SAW II: FLESH AND BLOOD. We interviewed producer John Williamson and got a brief look at the cringe-inducing eye scalpel mini-game. Interview with SAW II producer John Williamson Part 1
Interview with SAW II producer John Williamson Part 2
SAW II: FLESH AND BLOOD Scalpel Mini Game Demo
Over at the Namco Bandai booth we got to play the revival of the uber-violent classic SPLATTERHOUSE for the PS3 and 360, which will be out Halloween 2010. This game is ridiculously bloody, living up to its title in every way and beyond. You slice, dice and maim your opponents in just about every conceivable way, from slicing them in two to ripping off their arm and beating them to death with their own severed limb. Oh yes. Have a look at the play through below.
E3 Hands-On with Splatterhouse
Finally, it’s time to brave the long lines to get some hands on time with the Nintendo 3DS. It takes a little under an hour to get into the room, which isn’t too bad considering we were given 20 minutes to try out the 3DS with all the games and demos they had on hand. It’s strange at first to look into the 3DS screen. It takes a second or two for your eyes to adjust to the image. Starting with a playable demo of STARFOX, the 3DS immediately impresses. The 3D adds an incredible depth and pulls the gamer into the screen. It’s immersive in a way I’ve never before experienced on a portable. It really is 3D without glasses.
STARFOX was a blast to play, but I pulled myself away to get a look at some other games. There’s a RESIDENT EVIL game in the early stages of production, basically just a short trailer. The 3D effect really adds to the atmospheric world of the RES EVIL games. As a character heads down a dark hallway, you really do feel transported into the game. After that, a rep offers to take a picture with the 3D camera. She tells me to hold my hand out. After taking a shot, she flips the 3DS around to show me a sharp, 3D image with my own hand literally reaching out of the screen. It’s quite a trick.
To round things out, I check out the new KID ICARUS, MARIO KART, NINTENDOGS, PAPER MARIO and one of the movies for 3DS, HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON. All show off the 3D effect very nicely. The 3D is smooth and sharp with none of the blurriness of the old red and blue days.
All in all, the 3DS is very exciting. The 3D does fatigue the eyes a bit at the full level, but with Nintendo’s slider option to control the level of 3D, you can take it down a notch to go easy on the eyes. I found that the effect still worked great and was less fatiguing and about the three-quarters level. The slider control on the left side takes a little getting used to, but works very well once you get the hang of it.
Well, I’m sold. I definitely want one. The big question now is price and release date, though Nintendo hinted at a release by March 2011. As for the price? My guess is $199, which would be just about perfect. I’d consider up to $249 but even that seems a tad high and anything more would probably alienate a large portion of Nintendo’s core audience.
And that wraps up another E3. Hope you’ve enjoyed the coverage. After a few slow years, E3 seems to be heading back towards the days of old. This year’s was the best in a while and it really seems like the big companies are starting to pull out all the stops, even in light of the economy. E3 2011 dates were just announced for June 7-9. Can’t wait to see what happens next year.
Only one episode remains in Season 3 of “Chucky,” and what a bloody road it’s been so far, especially for actor Devon Sawa. The actor has now officially died twice on screen this season, pulling double duty as President James Collins and body double Randall Jenkins.
If you thought Chucky’s ruthless eye-gouging of the President was bloody, this week’s Episode 7 traps Randall Jenkins in an elevator that feels straight out of an iconic horror classic.
Bloody Disgusting spoke with series creator Don Mancini and actor Devon Sawa about that ultra-bloody death sequence and how the actor inspires Mancini’s writing on the series.
Mancini explains, “Devon’s a bit of a muse. Idle Hands and Final Destination is where my Devon Sawa fandom started, like a lot of people; although yours may have started with Casper. I was a bit too old for that. But it’s really just about how I love writing for actors that I respect and then know. So, it’s like having worked with Devon for three years now, I’m just always thinking, ‘Oh, what would be a fun thing to throw his way that would be unexpected and different that he hasn’t done?’ That’s really what motivates me.”
For Sawa, “Chucky“ is an actor’s dream in that the series gives him not one but multiple roles to sink his teeth into, often within the same season. But the actor is also a huge horror fan, and Season 3: Part 2 gives him the opportunity to pay homage to a classic: Kubrick’s The Shining.
CHUCKY — “There Will Be Blood” Episode 307 — Pictured in this screengrab: (l-r) Devon Sawa as President James Collins, K.C. Collins as Coop — (Photo by: SYFY)
“Collectively, it’s just amazing to put on the different outfits, to do the hair differently, to get different types of dialogue,“ Sawa says of working on the series. “The elevator scene, it’s like being a kid again. I was up to my eyeballs in blood, and it felt very Kubrick. Everybody there was having such a good time, and we were all doing this cool horror stuff, and it felt amazing. It really was a good day.”
Sawa elaborates on being submerged in so much blood, “It was uncomfortable, cold, and sticky, and it got in my ears and my nose. But it was well worth it. I didn’t complain once. I was like, ‘This is why I do what I do, to do scenes like this,‘ the scenes that I grew up watching on VHS cassette, and now we’re doing it in HD, and it’s all so cool.“
It’s always the characters and the actors behind them that matter most to Mancini, even when he delights in coming up with inventive kills and incorporating horror references. And he’s killed Devon Sawa’s characters often. Could future seasons top the record of on-screen Sawa deaths?
“Well, I guess we did it twice in season one and once in season two,“ Mancini counts. “So yeah, I guess I would have to up the ante next season. I’ll really be juggling a lot of falls. But I think it’s hopefully as much about quality as quantity. I want to give him a good role that he’s going to enjoy sinking his teeth into as an actor. It’s not just about the deaths.”
Sawa adds, “Don’s never really talked about how many times could we kill you. He’s always talking about, ‘How can I make this death better,’ and that’s what I think excites him is how he can top each death. The electricity, to me blowing up to, obviously in this season, the eyes and with the elevator, which was my favorite one to shoot. So if it goes on, we’ll see if he could top the deaths.”
CHUCKY — “Death Becomes Her” Episode 305 — Pictured in this screengrab: Devon Sawa as James Collins — (Photo by: SYFY)
The actor has played a handful of distinctly different characters since the series launch, each one meeting a grisly end thanks to Chucky. And Season 3 gave Sawa his favorite characters yet.
“I would say the second one was a lot of fun to shoot,“ the actor says of Randall Jenkins. “The President was great. I liked playing the President. He was the most grounded, I hope, of all the characters. I did like playing him a lot.” Mancini adds, “He’s grounded, but he’s also really traumatized, and I thought you did that really well, too.”
The series creator also reveals a surprise correlation between President James Collins’ character arc and a ’90s horror favorite.
“I saw Devon’s role as the president in Season 3; he’s very Kennedy-esque,“ Mancini explains. “But then given the supernatural plot turns that happen, to me, the analogy is Michelle Pfeiffer in What Lies Beneath, the character that is seeing these weird little things happening around the house that is starting to screw with his sanity and he starts to insist, ‘I’m seeing a ghost,‘ and his spouse thinks he’s nuts. So I always like that. That’s Michelle Pfeiffer in What Lies Beneath, which is a movie I love.”
The finale of “Chucky” Season 3: Part 2 airs Wednesday, May 1 on USA & SYFY.
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