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Slasher Game ‘Last Year’ Has Surpassed Its Funding Goal (By a Lot)
The crowdfunding campaign for the indie horror game Last Year wraps up this week, yet with three days left, it’s already a massive success. The gargantuan amount of support it’s received on Kickstarter, where it’s raised just over $83,000 — well exceeding its modest $50,000 goal — means there’s a definite audience out there for slasher games.
For the unfamiliar, Last Year is an asymmetrical multiplayer game in the same vein as Evolve, Damned and The Flock. In it, a group of five player-controlled teens must survive against a psychopath who’s also player-controlled.
Last Year is part of a wave of slasher games we have to look forward to in 2015 — here’s our rundown of the rest. This is good news for us for a couple reasons. This is very much an experimental game, and the warm reception it’s seen from the gaming community should go a long way in showing there’s a market for even more asymmetrical multiplayer horror games, as well as other slasher games like Until Dawn, Summer Camp and Splatter Camp.
Are you watching? Ishana Night Shyamalan has clearly been paying attention to her father, M. Night Shyamalan. Not only is she following in his footsteps as a filmmaker, but she’s also embracing a similar mystique surrounding her work.
The new trailer for her feature directorial debut, The Watchers, gives viewers a taste of what’s in store. AreYouWatching.com has launched with even more clues.
Visit the site to join the mysterious creatures that lurk in the Irish forest as you observe a shelter. From the time the sun sets at 7:30 PM until it rises at 5:55 AM, four strangers — played by Dakota Fanning, Georgina Campbell, Oliver Finnegan, and Olwen Fouere — can be seen trapped inside.
You’ll find several interactive items. Click on the gramophone to set the mood with some spooky music. Tap on the birdcage to hear an ominous message from the parrot inside: “I’m going out, try not to die.” Press on the TV to watch clips from a fake reality show called Lair of Love. And if you tap on the window during the daytime … they’ll tap back.
There are also Easter eggs hidden at specific times. We’ve discovered three: a disorienting shot of Fanning’s character’s car at 5:52 PM, a closer view of the captives at 11:11 PM, and a glimpse of monitors at 12:46 AM. Let us know if you find any more in the comments…
The Watchers opens in theaters on June 14 via New Line Cinema. Ishana Night Shyamalan writes and directs, based on the 2022 novel of the same name by A.M. Shine. M. Night Shyamalan produces.
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