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Papercraft Horror Game ‘Phantom Halls’ is Getting a Big Free Festive Update [Exclusive]

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Phantom Halls turned out to be one of our favorite games of 2018 thanks to its affectionate ribbing of B-Movie horror sensibilities (oh, and Ash from Evil Dead 2 is a DLC character. That helped too) so more of it is always welcome.

So good tidings to its developer Incedium Games for revealing to us exclusively that Phantom Halls is getting a significant free festive update on Christmas Eve. Bringing fresh fun and fear to the game’s haunted houses.

The update will include not only a Christmas-theme addition to the game, but also one for Chinese New Year. Both will feature new quests and new enemy types designed with the related holiday in mind. All for the great big price of nada.

As well as these big themed updates, there will be an expansion to the meta-game, with achievements and improved game stats being added.

Phantom Hall‘s creative director Llexi Leon gave us a brief description of what’s happening in the story of the festive update.

“Join Santa for a flesh-eating feast this Christmas! After a nightmare mishap just days before the holidays, the elves were forced to reanimate Santa in the Phantom Halls laboratory. Driven to madness by the horror they unleashed, Santa and his elves roam the mansion, devouring anything that crosses their path… 
 
“Following on from our Thanksgiving update and the blight of biohazard Turkeys, our festive holiday update includes new Christmas and Chinese New Year themed missions, in addition to a long-awaited Achievement system, building on the statistics screen and rewarding our community for their monster-slaying abilities. How many ghosts have you busted, skulls cracked, zombies splattered? We’re making a list, and checking it twice! Good luck in there.”
The game will also be a part of the Steam Winter Sale, with 25% slashed off the usual asking price when the sale starts on December 20th.
Should you need extra convincing, then read our review of Phantom Halls on PC -to find out why we like it so much.
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‘Home Bodies’ Image & Poster Introduce Isolated Twins in Sci-Fi Nightmare [Fantasia 2026]

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Sci-fi thriller Home Bodies is set to unsettle audiences at the 30th edition of Fantasia, and our exclusive image introduces a peculiar pair of twins at the center.

Home Bodies makes its World Premiere July 23, at 9:30 PM at Cinéma du Musée in Montreal, with the filmmakers and cast in attendance. 

An eerie new poster created by Justin Erickson of Phantom City Creative heralds the film’s premiere.

In the film,Red and Blue, twins raised in total isolation by an automated house, live according to the rules set by Papa, a disembodied voice behind a locked door who provides food, shelter, entertainment, and order. Their carefully controlled world is disrupted by the arrival of Pal, an enigmatic humanoid stranger whose presence begins to fracture the only life the twins have ever known.” 

It’s a premise that calls another Canadian creeper to mind and has us intrigued: Pin.

Emma Ho, Ian Ho, and Ess Hödlmoser star.

Home Bodies is directed and produced by Casey Walker, who returns to Fantasia more than a decade after his horror-comedy A Little Bit Zombie screened at the festival in 2012. He’s since gone on to produce a number of defining Canadian genre films like In a Violent Nature, The Void, and Pyewacket.

I started my career in Montreal and Fantasia has been part of my life ever since,said Walker.I couldn’t be more thrilled to return to where it all started and share Home Bodies on such a special anniversary of the festival.

Karen Harnisch (Infinity Pool, Sleeping Giant) also produces. Executive producers are Todd Brown (The Raid, Mandy) and Chad Archibald (undertone).

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