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‘Mirror’s Edge’ Composer Wants to Score a Horror Game

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Solar Fields is the stage name of Magnus Birgersson, a Swedish electronic musician and the composer of the breezy energy of the music that’s since become such an integral part of the identity of the City of Glass, in which the Mirror’s Edge series takes place. When the narrative falls short or the gameplay grows repetitive — as it does far too often in both the original game and its frustratingly unimaginative sequel — it’s Fields’ brilliantly realized soundscape that’s left to carry the experience until it regains its footing.

I finished Mirrors Edge Catalyst the other day and immediately went online to learn more about its innovative use of sound, which dynamically ebbs and flows with the pacing of the action in a very clever way. That’s when I came across this interview with FGE, where Solar Fields briefly mentions that he “would really like to score some horror game in the future.”

I thought it might be a throwaway comment until I dug just a little bit deeper and found more evidence of Fields’ interest in the horror genre. When asked what kinds of games he plays, Fields replied, “I’m a huge fan of well-made horror games, and also games that deliver something new to the gaming experience.”

Someone needs to give this guy a (well-made) horror game to score right now.

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‘The Last Stop in Yuma County’: Barbara Crampton Answers a Tense Call in Exclusive Clip

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Writer-director Francis Galluppi will soon face off Kandarian demons by helming the next Evil Dead film. This week sees the release of his star-studded feature debut, The Last Stop in Yuma County. An original Western thriller in the vein of early Coen Brothers, the film arrives this Friday, May 10 from Well Go USA in select theaters and VOD.

In anticipation, Bloody Disgusting has an exclusive clip featuring stars Jocelin Donahue and Barbara Crampton. Watch below and find the trailer and poster art underneath.

Here’s the story: “While awaiting the next fuel truck at a middle-of-nowhere Arizona rest stop, a traveling young knife salesman is thrust into a high-stakes hostage situation by the arrival of two similarly stranded bank robbers with no qualms about using cruelty—or cold, hard steel—to protect their bloodstained, ill-begotten fortune.”

Joining Donahue and Crampton is a who’s who of horror favorites: Jim Cummings, Richard Brake, Faizon Love,  Alex Essoe, Michael Abbott Jr., Sierra McCormick, Nicholas Logan, Sam Huntington, Connor Paolo, Robin Bartlett, Jon Proudstar, Ryan Masson, and Gene Jones.

In her glowing review, our head critic Meagan Navarro says The Last Stop in Yuma County is “bustling with life and boisterous personalities, reflective on screen in every facet.” She adds, “Galluppi makes it so effortlessly easy to get sucked into this slick, singular world and invest in its characters, only for the filmmaker to revel in dispatching them.”

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