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Let’s Play 10 Minutes in ‘Heathen’
That headline’s for all of you who mispronounce Heathen, which is the name of Frog Factory’s unofficial video game successor to H.G. Wells’ influential 1896 novel The Island of Doctor Moreau. It was greenlit on Steam late last month, and to celebrate the achievement its developer shared ten more minutes of footage from the upcoming PC horror game.
The episodic epilogue to Wells’ thoughtful examination of human identity and our capacity for cruelty isn’t expected until sometime next year, so everything you see is still a work-in-progress, though you wouldn’t necessarily know that looking at this impressive demo.
What may be most intriguing about this game is that it focuses on one of Dr. Moreau’s beasts as it attempts to reclaim the island piece by piece from the humans after they lose control of it. Even more intriguing is the mechanic that lets players “become a beast to liberate yourself from difficult situations.” I’m very interested in seeing how that clever idea turns out.
Heathen is listed for “2017(?)”, so it may come earlier than that.
While you wait for Alien: Romulus, the folks over at Devilworks have cooked up their own slice of “mockbuster” fun with Alien Hunt, and we’re debuting the trailer here on BD this morning.
This brand-new sci-fi horror from director Aaron Mirtes (The Bigfoot Trap, Painted in Blood) is set for its US premiere on May 14, and you can find it on digital thanks to Devilworks.
You can exclusively watch the official trailer for Alien Hunt below, which looks to combine elements of Alien and Predator. This particular “mockbuster” has very little interest in hiding its inspirations, with the alien designs plucked straight out of H.R. Giger’s beautiful brain. Hey, if you’re going to pull from other movies, might as well take from the all-time greats!
In Alien Hunt, “On a hunting trip in the wilderness, a group of siblings discovers an abandoned military outpost on their land, but is it what it seems?
“Their trip takes a sinister turn when they find themselves facing off against a relentless army of extra-terrestrial beings. Suddenly, the hunters become the hunted.
“The formidable squad of alien soldiers will stop at nothing to wipe out the enemy and in an all-out, brutal battle for survival, it’s kill or be killed in Alien Hunt.”
Barron Boedecker (Escape Pod, The Bigfoot Trap), Brent Bentley (The Perfect In-Laws, Haunt Season), Deiondre Teagle (The Visitor, Painted in Blood, Death Ranch), Chelsey Fuller (The Bigfoot Trap, The Silent Natural), Jesse Santoyo (A Nashville Country Christmas, Potter’s Ground), and Adam Pietripaoli (The Bigfoot Trap, The OctoGames) star.
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