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A Tense Escape Room, a 90s Horror Tribute and More in November’s Horror Bytes [Safe Room Podcast]
Before diving into this month’s edition of Horror Bytes, please give last week’s debut of The Inventory (our monthly review show) a listen.
Another month, another edition of Horror Bytes, our segment highlighting short indie horror experiences! This month we have recruited returning friend of the show, Chris White, who brought Neil and me a healthy stable of horror titles. From surviving the prowling antagonist of Suffer The Night to the drill maintenance madness of The Other Side, this month’s picks highlight various sinister and spooky titles.
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.
The shelter keeps you safe from the horrors of the outside world. So naturally, you must break out. The Other Side combines a tense atmosphere with drill simulator mechanics to make for a taut slice of horror.
Uninvited guests are bad enough, now imagine one wants to kill you! Try to survive your killer guest while uncovering the mystery behind a strange computer game that showed up on your doorstep.
Camping in the bug-infested wilderness is already bad enough, but now you have to contend with *something* that patrols the particular woods you have decided to set up camp in. Try to survive the night while finding your missing significant other.
Common car troubles are exacerbated by the surreal and strange town filled with mannequins and ghostly apparitions that fill it. Try to solve cryptic riddles to uncover the mysteries of our protagonist’s past.
Safe Room is a weekly horror video game discussion podcast with new episodes every Monday on iTunes/Apple, Sticher, Spotify, Google Podcasts, and Linktree for additional streaming services.
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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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