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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.
Sam Neill, the New Zealand actor best known for his role in 1993’s Jurassic Park, has passed away this week at 78 years old. In a statement shared on Neill’s Instagram page this morning, the actor’s family said that his passing was “sudden and unexpected.”
Neill had been diagnosed with a rare blood cancer in 2022, but stated the following year that he was in remission. The family notes that he “remained cancer free” at the time of his passing.
The family statement reads, “It is with immense sadness that the whānau of Sam Neill share the news of his passing on Monday 13th July, in Sydney Australia. Sam was surrounded by family and passed with the dignity that has characterised his whole life. The loss was sudden and unexpected but blessed by the fact that Sam remained cancer free.
“They would like to express their deepest gratitude to the staff at St Vincent’s Private Hospital for their incredible care. More details will be shared later, but for now, on behalf of the family, we ask that you respect their privacy as they navigate this immeasurable loss.”
In addition to his iconic role as Dr. Alan Grant in the original Jurassic Park and the sequels Jurassic Park III and Jurassic World: Dominion, Sam Neill left an indelible mark on the horror genre with memorable roles in Andrzej Żuławski’s Possession, The Omen: The Final Conflict, John Carpenter’s In the Mouth of Madness, and sci-fi horror favorite Event Horizon.
Sam Neill’s vast resume in film and television began in the early 1970s and also includes the films Sleeping Dogs, Enigma, The Good Wife, A Cry in the Dark, Dead Calm, The Hunt for Red October, Memoirs of an Invisible Man, Hostage, The Jungle Book, Snow White: A Tale of Terror, The Horse Whisperer, Bicentennial Man, Daybreakers, Escape Plan, and Thor: Ragnarok.
Sam Neill is survived by his four children and eight grandchildren.
Steven Spielberg said in a statement to Variety, “I owe a debt of gratitude to Roger Donaldson, Gilliam Armstrong, Graham Baker and Phillip Noyce for casting Sam Neill in the roles in which he was so brilliant that brought him to my attention and led to his playing Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park. Sam was exceptionally collaborative. It was a stretch for him to play a character who acted as though children were messy and smelly because this was the opposite of the loving father he was to his children. I adored making all the Jurassic movies with him.”
Spielberg adds, “Along with Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum, we will always have our Jurassic family and Sam will never be forgotten by us or his many millions of fans around the world.”
Sam Neill in ‘Event Horizon’
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