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Heads Will Roll In These New Screens From Techland’s Horror RPG ‘Hellraid’
Last month the makers of Dead Island revealed their next game, an action horror RPG called Hellraid. Silly title aside, it looks promising. Techland has proven adept at giving us quality games with visceral and mostly satisfying first person melee combat, and that seems to be at least a moderately important aspect of this game.
Hellraid will bring with it a bevy of character classes that should be familiar to RPG fans — warrior, mage, paladin, and rogue — as well as a challenging campaign that can be played alone or cooperatively, and an online multiplayer mode that they’re being quiet about right now. Check it out after the break.
Hellraid still has a nebulous release window of 2013. Maybe they’ll give us something a little more solid at E3 next month. It’s exclusive to current-gen consoles (360, PS3 and PC), but they have another project that will tackle the next generation of consoles — an intriguing horror game called Dying Light.
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We have an exclusive first look at A Man in the Woods With an Axe, a blood-soaked, genre-twisting homage to 1980s slasher films.
Spanning four decades, A Man in the Woods With an Axe begins in the summer of 1987 before pushing into the modern era, weaving together timelines and perspectives in a way that builds both dread and intrigue.
Drawing inspiration from genre standouts like Tucker and Dale vs. Evil, Hatchet, and The Cabin in the Woods, the film blends visceral horror with moments of dark humor, creating a uniquely balanced experience that honors tradition while carving its own identity.
Writer-director Dillon Brown (Primal Darkness) aims to deliver everything fans crave from a slasher while boldly subverting expectations with a mid-film twist that redefines the story.
“This is an unapologetic love letter to the films that made me fall in love with horror,” Brown tells Bloody Disgusting. “But I didn’t just want to recreate that feeling; I wanted to challenge it. About halfway through, the film takes a turn that completely changes how you view not only this story, but the genre itself.”
Brown describes the vintage-inspired production as “far and away the bloodiest film I’ve ever made,” with practical effects helmed by Cody Ruch (The Mill, Pig Hill), an instructor at Tom Savini’s Special Make-Up Effects Program.
From Horror Dadz Productions, A Man in the Woods With an Axe is currently in production and targeting an early 2027 release.
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