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First ‘Deal With the Devil’ Trailer is Hiding Something
There’s a secret hiding inside this moody debut trailer for the upcoming psychological horror game Deal With the Devil. The sly devils at Round Table Games clearly know their audience, they’ve even made a puzzle out of the game’s marketing with some sort of “key” that’s been hidden across the five trailers they have planned for it.
I’ve looked around, and after spending way too much time sifting through the footage frame-by-frame, I’ve found more than a dozen key-like candidates — more on those later — and one enormously creepy hug.
But first, a recap. For the unfamiliar, Deal With the Devil is a Unreal 4-powered first-person horror game set in the 1920s that follows a woman named Amelia Woods, who “walks hand-in-hand with the player as they determine whether they choose to walk the path of enlightenment, or follow a slippery slope into the realms of madness as the anti-hero of the piece.”
Now about that key. The problem I ran into when I was trying to dissect this trailer is it has too many possibilities. It looks like it was made by the Illuminati’s marketing department, with its great many symbols, strange images, and brief flashes of text. We also only have 1/5 of the footage, so we could potentially be missing four minutes of fairly important footage.
Below you’ll find a few interesting things I found, starting with a screen I took of the opening poem.
Soon you will be gone and I will pass beyond your grave.
I will tiptoe through the tulips that the other lovers gave.
I shall smile and say adieu as I pass beyond your bones,
and turn around and spit upon your sacrilegious headstone.
Eventually, the text burns out, but not before obscuring most of the text, leaving a lone ‘ass’.
How am I doing so far?
I also found this, the world’s most one-sided hug.
That right there is the troll meme made flesh. Something sinister is afoot, y’all.
How about a hidden request to “come find me”? That’s something, probably. No? Well, shit.
Okay, how about this. I’ve captured it with crystal clarity so one of you can have a go at it. All I ask is that you quickly stop translating it if your efforts cause the earth to tremble beneath you. If that happens, then this is definitely some kind of demon-summoning incantation meant not for mortal tongue.
If this string of numbers (41.7151377, 44.827096) are coordinates, they point to a spot next to a cemetery in Tbilisi, Georgia.
And finally, a mildly unsettling letter.
That’s some of what I found. Maybe you’ll have better luck.
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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