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Haunt Your House With ‘Night Terrors’
The idea behind developer Novum Analytics’ experimental horror game Night Terrors is so, so simple. That’s probably why it was able to crowdfund about $50k when so many other mobile games struggle to raise a fraction of that. It’s effectively a ‘haunt your house’ app that transforms your mobile phone into a window to another dimension inhabited by the sort of things that go bump in the night.
Intrigued? Just wait until you see this augmented reality game in action.
Night Terrors is a supernatural horror game that revolves around a camera, but not at all in the same way that Fatal Frame or DreadOut are. It swaps out the virtual worlds we usually explore in these types of games for a reality we’re intimately familiar with.
There’s no release date yet, though it doesn’t sound like we’ll be waiting much longer for it. Novum sent out the first build to their beta testers last week, along with an update on its development.
“We’re gaining momentum and are happy to be finally testing our tech,” wrote Novum in a post on the Night Terrors Indiegogo page. “Thanks for everyone’s patience with this project. Its been quite an undertaking to get this software working on mobile platforms, and we’re excited that we’re finally to a point where we’re comfortable with moving forward for iOS. Android is coming soon.”
This does leave us with a mildly unsettling question: who, and how, are we going to call about these ghosts we ain’t afraid of when Night Terrors needs our phones to conjure the ghosts? We need an answer to this question fast so we can all finally have demon roommates, just like Katie and Micah — and you’re Micah this time, I get to be Katie and I’m also superpowered demon Katie when we act out the sequels.
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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