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Outer Space is Still Terrifying in ‘Syndrome’
Being in outer space in any capacity is genuinely frightening. No oxygen, no gravity, no rainbows, just black holes, endless darkness and the unnerving truth that your ability to continue existing is one technological hiccup away from not being a thing anymore.
This is why I love sci-fi horror, because where you and I might see a incomprehensibly huge sea of inky blackness inhabited by unknowable things that only make headlines when they’ve accidentally swallowed a planet, this genre sees potential for space monsters.
Syndrome is keeping the tradition of making scary things even scarier alive by dropping players in a poorly lite spaceship filled with the kind of horrors we can easily comprehend. Neil DeGrasse Tyson doesn’t need to explain why it’d be a great idea if you didn’t let that gurgling nightmare creature get close enough for a hug. It’s very obviously going to murder and/or eat you.
I’m willing to overlook its woefully familiar premise because this game lets you fight back. I adore games like Alien: Isolation and Outlast, but sometimes I want to mulch a monster’s face with my space gun, rather than hide in another locker until it’s probably safe to come out.
Syndrome is headed to PC, PS4 and Xbox One in “a few months”.
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‘Dead Mail’ Exclusive Images: SXSW Horror Movie Begins With a Blood-Stained Postal Box Delivery
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.
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