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‘Last Year’ Concept Artist Tackles ‘Aliens’ and Those Who Hunt Them

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8 years ago

January 6, 2016

Derek Zabrocki is an exceptionally talented concept artist with a passion for the horror and sci-fi genres. His work often blends the two, as you can see in this sampling of his portfolio, with some of it appearing in the Aliens vs. Predator board game, Magic: The Gathering, Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate, and the crowdfunded teen stab ’em up Last Year.

Supermassive’s spooky sleeper hit Until Dawn set an incredibly high bar for future slasher games, like Friday the 13th: The Game and Last Year, which are both expected to arrive this fall.

The connection between these two games runs deep than the obvious, as they’re both asymmetrical multiplayer games — 7v1 and 5v1, respectively — that revolve around a group of stereotypical teens who must work together to survive against a masked murderer.

Last Year is headed to PC, while Friday the 13th is coming to PC, PS4 and Xbox One.

Head over here for more crowdfunded horror games!

Adam Dodd

Gamer, writer, terrible dancer, longtime toast enthusiast. Legend has it Adam was born with a controller in one hand and the Kraken's left eye in the other. Legends are often wrong.

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‘Dead Mail’ Exclusive Images: SXSW Horror Movie Begins With a Blood-Stained Postal Box Delivery

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1 month ago

March 6, 2024

John Squires

One of the genre films we’re looking forward to checking out at SXSW this year is Dead Mail, written and directed by Joe DeBoer and Kyle McConaghy and premiering on March 9.

Meagan Navarro will be reviewing Dead Mail for Bloody Disgusting as part of her SXSW coverage, and she writes in her preview for the upcoming fest: “Dead Mail leans heavily into the ’80s analog aesthetic, delivering a unique crime thriller unafraid to get offbeat with its dark narrative. Expect its characters to be as atypical as Dead Mail‘s sense of style.”

In the SXSW 2024 horror film…

“On a desolate, Midwestern county road, a bound man crawls towards a remote postal box, managing to slide a blood-stained plea-for-help message into the slot before a panicking figure closes in behind him. The note makes its way to the county post office and onto the desk of Jasper, a seasoned and skilled “dead letter” investigator, responsible for investigating lost mail and returning it to its sender. As he investigates further, Jasper meets Trent, a strange yet unassuming man who has taken up residence at the men’s home where Jasper lives.

“When Trent unexpectedly shows up at Jasper’s office, it becomes clear he has a vested interest in the note, and will stop at nothing to retrieve it…”

Sterling Macer, Jr., John Fleck, Susan Priver, Micki Jackson, Tomas Boykin, and Nick Heyman star in Dead Mail. Preview the film with an exclusive image gallery below.

Dead Mail SXSW horror movie