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Horror Bytes October 2022 [Safe Room Podcast]
Before diving into this month’s latest edition of Horror Bytes, check out last week’s episode with Jake Dekker on The Last of Us Part I (There’s also a bonus episode where we interview Immortality composer Nainita Desai).
Happy spooky season, everyone!
And what better way to kick off the scariest season of the year than with a new SPECIAL edition of Horror Bytes, the indie horror segment in which Neil and I each highlight several bite-sized indie titles.
What makes this month’s especially spooky? This week, we’re joined by the indie horror curator @HorrorVisuals (aka Hurc), who has brought four of his favorite bite-sized indie frights to the table this month.
So pour yourself a warm beverage, grab your favorite comfy blanket, and tune in for some indie horror titles you can’t miss.
And as always, we ask that if you can do so,
support the developers behind these games through their itch.io, steam, or Patreon pages.
@HorrorVisuals
The Building 71 Incident – When has exploring an abandoned building ever gone wrong? The Building 71 Incident combines familiar staples of VHS found footage horror with engaging psychological scares and environmental storytelling.
Contemp – If you’re a fan of photorealistic haunted house walks akin to P.T. and Resident Evil 7, then Contemp may scratch that itch nicely for you.
The Floor is Breathing – Explore the deranged mind of a serial killer and see how their perception of reality is a nightmare in and of itself.
Next Door – Inspired by the works of Junji Ito, this creepy 2D apartment side scroller will have you thankful that your neighbors are JUST nosy.
Neil
Dead River Prelude– A brief snippet of world-building for what looks to be an intriguing witchcraft survival horror game.
House of Thyme 3D – This old-school 4-color 3D throwback combines first-person dungeon crawlers with a vegetation infestation that’ll have you thankful you only have weeds at your place.
Jay
Broken Through – After inheriting the belongings of your friend who was declared dead seven years after going missing, you discover a strange computer game that unleashes an all-new kind of nightmare.
Acrophile – When has mainland researchers disturbing isolated communities ever gone wrong? Explore the mysteries of the inhabitants’ island and perhaps learn why they are all blue. Maybe.
Safe Room is a weekly horror video game discussion podcast with new episodes every Monday on
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After kicking off July with discussions of Joe Dante’s seminal werewolf film The Howling (listen) and Ken Russell’s controversial erotic thriller Crimes of Passion (listen), we’re heading to Maine to dissect one of Stephen King‘s most misguided adaptations in Lawrence Kasdan‘s 2003 misfire Dreamcatcher!
Dreamcatcher sees friends Henry (Thomas Jane), Jonesy (Damian Lewis), Pete (Timothy Olyphant) and Beaver (Jason Lee) reunite for their annual hunting trip in Maine. Their reunion is cut short when they find themselves caught in the middle of a war between a hostile race of farty-farty aliens and an elite US military unit led by Colonel Abraham Curtis (Morgan Freeman), who has been driven mad after spending decades tracking the extraterrestrials. When Jonesy is possessed by one of the aliens, the remaining friends seek out their disabled childhood friend Duddits (Donnie Wahlberg), who they believe has powers that can save Jonesy…and the world.
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Episode 396: Dreamcatcher (2003)
Watch out for “ister gay” (oof), take some Gas-X and bite our bags because we’re talking Lawrence Kasdan’s baffling 2003 adaptation of Stephen King’s equally baffling novel Dreamcatcher.
Join us as we go all in on the farty-farty aliens populating this hilarious misfire that often feels like a bad Kevin Smith script. It’s a film filled with characters who get a single defining trait (if they’re lucky), played by respectable actors who are here for the paycheck (looking at you, Morgan Freeman).
Plus: blown-out assholes, using guns as telephones, pitying poor Donnie Wahlberg, and wondering why the hell this movie is called Dreamcatcher.
Cross out Dreamcatcher!
Coming Up Next: We’re going to be lounging around a posh Greenwich Village apartment as we check in on Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly in Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window (1954).
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