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Get Ready to Panic in ‘Dead By Daylight’
There’s been a handful of times where I’ve been asked what it is that I find so appealing about the slasher genre. The question usually comes up immediately after someone has learned that I write about spooky scary things for something called Bloody Disgusting, which, I guess, brings to mind the genre’s many cliches, stereotypical characters, predictable plots and penchant for cheese.
The answer I give varies depending on my mood. I might answer them sincerely, or I could go dead-eyed and creep into their personal bubble so they can hear every word as I describe, in gruesome detail, the immense satisfaction I get from watching the light leave a stranger’s eyes when Michael ventilates their abdomen with a kitchen knife.
“It’s just not the same when you use a gun,” I’ll whisper to the empty spot they had occupied a few seconds earlier. Then I pop the Starburst back in my mouth and smile.
If you’re here, you probably don’t need me to explain why slasher films have remained relevant, for the most part, for the better part of a century. I suspect it’d also be unnecessary to let you in on on all the reasons why I’m so thrilled that this genre is finally making its way to video games.
Of the handful of stab ’em ups we’re anticipating in the coming year, Behaviour Digital’s asymmetrical multiplayer horror game Dead By Daylight may be the most unpredictable. It’s too early to say for sure, but it appears to be putting more of an emphasis on randomized objectives and environments than Friday the 13th: The Game or Last Year.
Dead By Daylight is expected to release this fall for PC.
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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