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Don’t let the upcoming merry Christmas shenanigans bring you down because I’m here to spread horror cheer like Malaria! While most “normal” people are walking around spreading overrated things like charity and joy, I’ve made it my goal to use this time of year to celebrate the important things. Things like scary movies, terrifying games and Halloween decorations in lieu of the more “traditional” Christmas decor. And yes, my neighbors absolutely despise me.
So why don’t you grab a sippy cup filled with chocolate milk, take a seat and celebrate with me, because after the break we have a lot to be happy about. I don’t want to give too much away but let’s just say our favorite tomb raiding chick might be taking on the survival horror genre, and a demo for a certain strategic dismembering game will have a demo out later this month.
Okay, so I might not be the best at not giving too much away in clues, but it would seem the game’s demo will be out just in time to help me spread my holiday horror cheer. The demo will be available right before Christmas on the PS3 and Xbox 360, so no one’s left out. Well, no one that matters. Am I right? Ooo, you Wii owners are going to need some Neosporin for that burn!
From the game’s Producer, Steve Papaoutsis, “Releasing the demo five weeks before launch will not only reconnect players with our hero Isaac Clarke, but will give them the opportunity to experience first-hand various jaw-dropping scenarios. It’s gonna be awesome.”
Awesome, you say? Like, getting shot downwards through the vast emptiness of space toward a massive space station filled with countless alien mutations whose sole purpose is to tear you apart and hang your giblets on their fireplace for an unsuspecting Santa to find? I’d say there’s little doubt at this point that Dead Space 2 will be awesome, my only worry right now is its level of scares now that I’m fairly certain the multiplayer is going to rock.
Oh, would you look at that? It just so happens while discussing the game’s level of terror on a scale of ‘basket of rabbits’ to ‘shit-your-pants’, Dead Space 2 looks to be measuring pretty damn close to the latter. EA’s John Riccitello who’s officially one of the luckiest people on the planet since he’s already played through the entire game, says the game’s pacing and action have both seen much improvement and, more importantly, it is “Scarier.”
Granted, as the head of EA this guy wants Dead Space 2 to do well so he’s likely to hype the shit out of it to help it reach the level of success this new franchise deserves, but I’m sure there’s far more to this than that.
There’s little chance this game won’t absolutely rock so here’s a brand spanking new teaser to help renew your excitement for the thrilling followup to Arkham Asylum, just don’t blink or you might miss it.
Night of the Sacrifice is a horror title for the Wii that uses its balance board, and while I’m sure I just lost roughly 80% of you, the trailer is still pretty creepy. Could the Wii be getting its first great horror game that isn’t an installment in the Resident Evil or Silent Hill franchises? One can hope.
Apparently this is old news, like over a year old news, but in my defense I was probably in the middle of something incredibly important, which is why I missed it. So around a year ago there were rumors circulating about a survival horror Lara Croft title that sprung up because of some concept art and assorted “leaked” info. The game supposedly took place on an island where Lara would have to use her badass punch-a-shark-in-the-face skills to fight the island’s uncivilized denizens.
In case you missed it, Lara’s new game is taking a brand new approach to the long-standing series and this time she might find herself in a much scarier scenario than the usual cursed ancient artifacts and annoying evil guys with bad accents.
From a recent press release regarding the upcoming game the plot is near-identical to the one from the rumored horror game a year back. In it, Ms. Croft finds herself washed ashore on an unknown island after a storm takes out her boat. We’re then asked to “forget everything we know about Tomb Raider” as her primary objective is to do everything it takes to survive. From that I’m expecting situations straight out of all those Travel Channel survival shows where we watch men pee on their shirts and wrap them around their head to keep cool or eat mutant bugs for dinner. Yes. Please.
Tomb Raider’s cover story will be out in a few days, on Dec 11, where we will be getting the rest of the story including whether or not this game will indeed be a horror game or one where we watch Lara walk alone and hungry with a urine-stained shirt wrapped around her head.
Well that’s definitely a headline I never thought I’d write. Cat ladies are already scary enough so I really don’t think they need to be made any scarier with their very own video game. The Cat Lady is an indie horror title that takes all the things we love about art-house and avant-garde styles and tosses it into a very unsettling game. Console gamers shouldn’t get too excited though as this is (currently) PC exclusive.
Did you even know there was a Red Faction movie that was planned to air on SyFi in the near future? I didn’t. Well, obviously I do now, but I didn’t until fairly recently. Spread via Twitter, the world’s newest source for breaking news, THQ’s Danny Bilson tweeted to let everyone know about the delay.
Originally planned to begin air in March, it was pushed back a bit to release alongside Red Faction: Armageddon, the new survival horror take on the blow-shit-up series whose surprising new direction made our list of the biggest surprises of E3 earlier this year. Even more exciting than that is the fact that if it does well the made for TV movie could change the future of the franchise. Assuming Armageddon is as great as I hope it will be I certainly wouldn’t mind Red Faction staying in the horror realm for a while.
Oh yes sir, if I wasn’t a step away from getting my very own street corner to help pay the bills I would be all over these. Konami Style, a japan-exclusive online shop, has some spectacular resin figures of Silent Hill’s Valtiel and a rather dashing Pyramid Head. Sadly, as I said earlier these are only available on Konami Style and require a hefty amount of cash, both costing over $300. Even though a majority of us either don’t have the means to get these or cannot justify spending the money, that shouldn’t stop us from pathetically asking relatives to get them for us? It is Christmas after all, the season for giving.
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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