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Reviews of ‘Vampire Survivors’, ‘The Devil in Me’, and More in The Inventory [Safe Room Podcast]
Before diving into this month’s edition of The Inventory, listen to last week’s discussion on horror game adaptations of film!
Welcome to another edition of The Inventory, Safe Room’s monthly review show, in which we amass some of the latest (and hopefully) greatest horror games released within a given month and discuss their merits or lack thereof.
Just as Neil and I are tackling the ever-daunting task of compiling our respective games of the year lists, another crop of titles has fallen into our laps for consideration.
From the puzzle-solving of Save Room to the horde bashing of Warhammer 40,000: Wartide to the extraterrestrial family drama of Sommerville, November has no shortage of horror and genre-adjacent titles that stood out amongst November’s healthy release schedule.
The Inventory: November 2022 Reviews
Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Bloody Ties
The first expansion for Techland’s zombie-slashing sequel gives us a demented game show of death!
Save Room
Resident Evil 4’s inventory management becomes a puzzle game in this delightful gem.
Sommerville
From the minds behind Limbo and Inside comes a War of the Worlds-esque tale.
The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil In Me
Supermassive Games closes its first season of The Dark Pictures by having a TV crew get trapped in a shifting murder house with a serial killer.
Vampire Survivors
The hit PC game finally landed on console this month, and it’s ruined our work/life balance.
Warhammer 40,000: Darktide
Crunchy co-op chaos arrives in the 40K follow-up to the Left 4 Dead-inspired Vermintide series.
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After spending June on explicitly queer texts like Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn (listen) and William Castle’s Homicidal (listen), it’s only appropriate that Horror Queers celebrate the American holiday with a blockbuster film with a not-so-secret gay connection.
In Independence Day, an unlikely group of people come together when the human race faces extinction from a threatening alien race. After spaceships destroy every major city, pilot Steven Hiller (Will Smith) must team up with secret tech genius David Levinson (Jeff Goldblum), as well as the US President (Bill Pullman), to execute a daring plan to save the planet from annihilation.
Along for the ride are the two saviors’ romantic partners – WH Communications Director Constance (Margaret Colin) and stripper Jasmine (Vivica A. Fox) – plus eccentric scientist Dr. Okun (Brent Spiner), who is at the center of the film’s most horrific set piece.
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Episode 393: Independence Day (1996)
Today, we celebrate our Independence Day…courtesy of gay German director Roland Emmerich.
As the summer blockbuster celebrates its 30th anniversary, we’re looking back on an alien disaster film that scared young Trace (thanks to that alien autopsy scene) and turned Will Smith into a star.
Plus: the death that upsets the most; bemoaning Vivica A. Fox’s career; pondering what could have been with the casting; why Smith’s bravado and the film’s patriotism doesn’t always work for Joe; and plenty of riffing on the atrocious sequel.
Cross out Independence Day!
Coming Up Next: We’re retreating to the country for some questionable therapy courtesy of Joe Dante’s 1981 classic, The Howling!
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