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Cult Korean Horror ‘White Day’ Announced for PSVR
Now that virtual reality is on the verge of becoming a reality (again), it’s time for some software — and not just tech demos — to be shared with the public, and it seems as though South Korea is wasting no time getting in on the action.
Out of a South Korean Sony event came the surprise announcement of a PlayStation VR project entitled White Day. The announcement was paired with a trailer by developer ROI Games.
White Day appears to based on a 2001 survival horror game called White Day: A Labyrinth Named School. Made by Sonnori, White Day: A Labyrinth Named School tells the story of teenagers trapped in a school, and it was released on the PC. From the Wiki page:
White Day: A Labyrinth Named School is the story of a young man’s trip into school at the dead of night to deliver some candy in preparation for the Eastern holiday of the same name, White Day, to So-yeong, a girl at school he likes. Finding himself locked up soon after entering, escaping the school now becomes the main objective.
The White Day teaser depicts plenty of spooky, school-based scenes of terror, from a creepy janitor giving students the stinkeye to a Ring-esque figure undulating on the wall. There’s plenty of first-person running, which reveals one of the game’s mechanics. Though it’s impossible to know for sure how the game is going to play, the circles that attach themselves to doorknobs — and hands, oddly — appear to be controlled by a Move controller.
The preliminary footage looks pretty stellar, but don’t get too excited: there is no Western release scheduled, as of yet, so no love for American audiences, but let’s hope that the game is popular enough to be released our way in the future at some point.
All of us here at Bloody Disgusting are deeply saddened to learn that George A. Romero Foundation Founder and President Suzanne Desrocher-Romero has passed away.
GARF shared in a statement on socials, “It is with a heavy heart that we announce the passing of Suzanne Desrocher Romero. Suzanne passed away of natural causes on June 24 at her home in Toronto after a prolonged illness.”
The statement continues, “Suzanne was the fierce leader of the George A. Romero Estate and The George A. Romero Foundation. She worked tirelessly to preserve George’s legacy. Her work at the foundation will continue to inspire and live on for generations to come. The family asks for privacy at this time.”
Desrocher-Romero founded GARF in 2018, after her late husband’s passing in 2017, and has been a fierce advocate for his legacy and the arts. It was her mission to “strengthen horror as a serious field of global study,” and she was a tremendous fighter on behalf of Romero’s works and supporting new filmmakers inspired by his legacy.
It was Desrocher-Romero who spearheaded the recovery and restoration of The Amusement Park, and, as the person in charge of the George A. Romero estate, worked closely with author Daniel Kraus on completing unfinished novels like Pay the Piper and The Living Dead. She most recently celebrated the restoration of her favorite of Romero’s zombie films, Day of the Dead, and was hard at work producing the upcoming film Twilight of the Dead.
That passionate advocacy led to Suzanne Desrocher-Romero becoming family to Bloody Disgusting as well.
2023 marked the start of an ongoing partnership between Bloody FM and GARF on The Dead, a scripted audio series spanning multiple seasons that saw Desrocher-Romero working closely with the Bloody FM team and mentoring the series’s contributing writers with GARF. To say her loss will be felt internally is an understatement.
“Anytime George Romero is mentioned is good, because what we are doing is to provide a healthy legacy. We’re uplifting his legacy, we’re supporting the archive, and we’re also supporting the Horror Study Center. So, all of these three things are what the Foundation is striving to do. As far as I’m concerned, the more we say George Romero’s name, the better it is,” Desrocher-Romero recently told BD.
It’s the perfect encapsulation of her unwavering enthusiasm for supporting Romero’s legacy and the horror genre, and just a glimpse at how much she contributed to preserving it. She is, in short, an inspiration.
We send our deepest condolences to Suzanne Desrocher-Romero’s family, friends, and GARF.
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