The Long Island International Film Expo reports, “According to Lindsay Katt, his life partner of seven years, filmmaker Jeremiah Kipp has left this plane of existence on Tuesday, October 13.”

“Jeremiah was a gentle soul who was always generous with advice and sharing his knowledge of cinema, and he leaves behind many friends and an important legacy of works,” the Long Island Film Expo team writes on Facebook. “The independent film community has suffered a tremendous loss. We’re all in shock, and this reminds us that you never know what people are going through, and perhaps, we should all be a bit kinder to each other, and especially ourselves.”

Prior to The Mortuary Assistant, which adapted the Dread XP video game of the same title, Jeremiah Kipp had directed Shudder’s horror movie Slapface, an expansion of his own short film. Kipp also directed the horror movie The Geechee Witch: A Boo Hag Story a couple years back, and his next movie Faceless had just wrapped production earlier this year.

According to IMDb, Jeremiah Kipp had actively been in pre-production on still another new horror movie titled The Housewife. That movie was set to adapt Kipp’s own 2023 short film.

Kipp leaves behind countless short films including The Safety Games, Don’t Pick Up, Dark Roads, Sins, Siren, Fizzle, Hotline, Unvoiced, Pickup, Progeny, The Pod, and The Christmas Party.

All of us here on Bloody Disgusting send our condolences to Kipp’s family, friends, and fans.

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Of course, coming up with visual depictions of otherworldly horror is no easy task, and that’s why I’ve decided to highlight six of the scariest demon designs in horror. After all, a creature feature is only as good as its antagonist, so this is one situation where the uglier the better!

For the purposes of this list, we’ll only be including movie monsters that are explicitly described as being demons from an established religion/folkloric tradition. We’re also only considering the demons’ scare factor – not the overall quality of the movie it came from. That being said, don’t forget to comment below with your own demonic favorites if you think we missed a particularly freaky one.

One more thing – while we won’t be including it on the list since it technically never made it into the movie, I’d also like to give a shout-out to Valak’s tragically unused true form from The Conjuring 2.

With that out of the way, onto the list:

6. Violator – Spawn (1997)

I’ve already written about how this ’90s Blockbuster Bomb is nowhere near as bad as most people say it is, but I’ll never get tired of insisting that John Leguizamo’s Clown/Violator is one of the greatest movie monsters of the ’90s. Not only was this ambitious union of digital and practical effects remarkable for its time, but it’s a genuine miracle that the crew was able to faithfully translate Todd McFarlane’s exaggerated design to the big screen.

While the comic book version of this hellish shapeshifter was already frightening, and I’d argue that the soft-spoken telepath of the HBO adaptation is even scarier, the special effects here really make it feel like Violator is about to leap off the screen and gobble up your entire family.

It’s just too bad that the rest of the film isn’t equally impressive!

5. The Demons – Hellboy (2019)

The 2019 Hellboy reboot may not be a good movie, and it left an especially sour taste in fans’ mouths after the cancellation of Guillermo Del Toro’s final entry in his proposed trilogy, but there’s still plenty of stuff that this ill-advised adaptation gets right. Among this R-rated romp’s good ideas, I’d argue that the film’s demonic antagonists are at the top of the list, especially if you suffer from some form of megalophobia.

While the film only briefly unleashes an assortment of hellish monsters upon the world during the final act, the Eldritch designs and Neil Marshall’s expert direction make these some of the scariest scenes in the entire Hellboy franchise. To be honest, I’d like to see an entire movie about kaiju-sized fallen angels wreaking havoc on modern society.

4. Satan – End of Days (1999)

End of Days is a deeply strange movie. A supernatural action-horror thriller starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as he attempts to thwart the biblical apocalypse, there are moments here that feel like they came out of a parody. Yet, it’s precisely these idiosyncrasies that make the movie so much fun, especially when the filmmakers do their best to make Lucifer himself a formidable opponent for the man who took down both the Predator and the T-1000.

If you ask me, special effects maestro Mark ‘Crash’ McCreery knocked it out of the park with his surreal and undeniably Eldritch design for Satan. Hell, this winged monstrosity appears to have more in common with Cthulhu than anything you’d see in your average exorcism flick, which makes it all the more tragic that the finished film ultimately replaced most of the demon’s practical effects with CGI.

3. The Lipstick-Face Demon – Insidious (2009)

There’s no discussing iconic demon designs without bringing up one of the most popular supernatural antagonists of the past few decades, the Red Face Demon from Insidious. Also known as the Lipstick-Face Demon and The Man with Fire in His Face, he may have only been the main antagonist of that first Insidious film, but this memorable villain has since become the mascot of the entire series as well as proof that familiar iconography can still be scary if presented properly.

That being said, it’s Joseph Bishara’s consistently freaky performance that makes Red Face such a haunting character, with his exaggerated movements and facial expressions helping to bring the design to life. Of course, I’m of the opinion that the demon’s affinity for Tiny Tim songs might just be the scariest thing about him!

2. The Mimic – The Mortuary Assistant (2026)

The live-action adaptation of Brian Clarke’s The Mortuary Assistant may not be quite as scary as its source material, but you’ve got to hand it to the filmmakers for recreating the game’s paranormal antagonists so faithfully – especially since they weren’t exactly working with a Hollywood budget.

Sure, the team benefited from the fact that the most popular of these demonic entities, the grinning Mimic, boasts a relatively simple design consisting of a pale, emaciated body and a doll-like face with uncanny proportions. But I love how they added a corpse-like texture to its skin. Mark Steger’s eerie performance also enhances the effects work and helps to make this one of the most memorable monsters on the list.

My only real gripe with this design is that they gave the Mimic a nose, removing some of the charm of that original design.

1. Porcelain Jesus – Belzebuth (2017)

Emilio Portes’ Belzebuth is a criminally underrated religious horror flick, so it stands to reason that it also features one of the scariest demons on this list. I know I’m technically bending the rules here, as the creature that appears in the film isn’t really the demon itself but a statue that was possessed and corrupted by it, but I believe this blasphemous design speaks for itself.

Over the course of the film, the demonic antagonist possesses a series of unfortunate victims before eventually settling on a porcelain recreation of Jesus, with the ensuing monstrosity chasing our lead characters during the flick’s scariest sequence. As with any piece of religious horror, your fright-mileage may vary depending on your respect for holy iconography, but I’m of the opinion that this design is scary enough to transcend religious barriers.

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Here’s all the new horror that released on Friday, March 27, 2026!

A New York City high-rise serves as a temple to Satan, and new maid Zazie Beetz is its latest human sacrifice in They Will Kill You. The film is now playing in theaters nationwide.

Zazie Beetz stars as a young woman who must survive the night at the Virgil, a demonic cult’s mysterious and twisted death-trap of a lair, before becoming their next offering.

Myha’La, Paterson Joseph, Tom Felton, Heather Graham, and Patricia Arquette round out the cast of They Will Kill You. Get your tickets now and watch the trailer below.

Kirill Sokolov (Why Don’t You Just Die!) directs from a script he co-wrote with Alex Litvak (Predators). IT filmmaker Andy Muschietti produces alongside Barbara Muschietti.

Produced by Diablo Cody, director Meredith Alloway’s Forbidden Fruits brings a new coven of witches to the big screen. The film is now playing exclusively in theaters.

Lola Tung (“The Summer I Turned Pretty”), Victoria Pedretti (“The Haunting of Hill House”), Alexandra Shipp (Tragedy Girls), Gabrielle Union (Breaking In), and Emma Chamberlain star in Forbidden Fruits, being released by IFC and Shudder.

Free Eden employee Apple secretly runs a witchy femme cult in the basement of the mall store after hours. But when new hire Pumpkin challenges the group’s ‘girl boss’ ways, the women are forced to face their own poisons or succumb to a bloody fate. 

“Forbidden Fruits grabbed me by the neck the very first time I read it,” Diablo Cody said. “It’s one of the craziest, most creative, beautifully bonkers projects I’ve ever worked on.”

Meagan Navarro writes in her review for Bloody Disgusting, “Forbidden Fruits may not necessarily forge new terrain in the teen satire space, but Alloway brings so much style and energy to her well-cast single-location stage play adaptation for the Gen Z crowd.”

Based on the hit horror video game, The Mortuary Assistant was released in select theaters last month. The film is now streaming exclusively on Shudder beginning today.

The Mortuary Assistant follows newly certified mortician Rebecca Owens, who accepts a night shift at a mortuary, embalming bodies alone after hours. As disturbing events escalate, Rebecca uncovers demonic rituals, the dark secrets of her enigmatic mentor, and her own buried trauma — racing to survive the night before her body becomes a vessel for possession.

Willa Holland (“Arrow”) and Paul Sparks (“Boardwalk Empire”) star, with Mark Steger (“Stranger Things”) as The Mimic. The Mortuary Assistant creator Brian Clarke co-wrote the script with Tracee Beebe. Jeremiah Kipp (Slapface) directs.

Originally released on PC in 2022, The Mortuary Assistant quickly became a viral sensation and made its way to Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo Switch. The film will expand on the game’s world, delving deeper into the lore of the demonic entities plaguing River Fields.

Proving herself to be a singular voice with Raw and Titane, French writer-director Julia Ducournau is back with new movie Alpha, now playing in theaters from NEON.

Ducournau’s third movie follows Alpha, a troubled 13-year-old who lives with her single mom. Their world collapses the day she returns from school with a tattoo on her arm.

Tahar Rahim (Madame Web), Golshifteh Farahani (Extraction), Mélissa Boros, Emma Mackey (Death on the Nile), Finnegan Oldfield (Infested), and Louai El Amrousy star.

How well do you really know your father? The person who’s a loving dad to you could be something far more dangerous to everyone else. That’s the case in Tubi Original Rockabye.

The psychological thriller is now streaming only on Tubi.

Annie Ngosi Ilonzeh (“Chicago Fire”) stars as a grieving woman who suspects her father didn’t take his own life. Her hunt for the truth turns treacherous when his friends start dying.

Chris Stokes (You Got Served) directs Rockabye from a script he co-wrote with frequent collaborators Marques Houston (Til Death Do Us Part) and Chaz Echols.

Donald Brumfield Jr., Claudia Jordan (Sharknado 5), Wesley Jonathan (“What I Like About You”), Garret Davis, Cisco Reyes, and Lisa Ann Loggins round out the cast.

“Baby Reindeer” meets Misery in UK horror movie Barren, now available at home.

In the film, “After pregnant Emily crashes outside a mill, desperate Julia believes the baby is a gift from God-and will do whatever it takes to make it hers, no matter the cost.”

Rebecca-Clare Evans and Michaela Longden star.

Simon Dinsell directed Barren.

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Based on the hit horror video game, Jeremiah Kipp (Slapface) directs from a script by The Mortuary Assistant creator Brian Clarke and Tracee Beebe. 

Willa Holland (“Arrow”) stars as newly certified mortician Rebecca Owens, who accepts a night shift at a mortuary, embalming bodies alone after hours.

As disturbing events escalate, Rebecca uncovers demonic rituals, the dark secrets of her enigmatic mentor, and her own buried trauma — racing to survive the night before her body becomes a vessel for possession.

Paul Sparks (“Boardwalk Empire”) also stars with John Adams (Hellbender), Keena Ferguson, and Mark Steger (“Stranger Things”) as The Mimic.

Patrick Ewald’s Epic Pictures produces via Dread alongside Cole Payne’s Traverse Media and Jacob P. Heineke. Executive producers include Clarke, Katie Page, Yulissa Morales, Randy Sinquefield, Patrick Fischer, and Oliver Garboe.

Meagan Navarro wrote in her review, “That’s the primary expectation of The Mortuary Assistant: translating the scares to screen. Instead, lore takes tedious precedence in an adaptation unable to generate fear.”

Originally released on PC in 2022, The Mortuary Assistant quickly became a viral sensation and made its way to Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo Switch. The film expands on the game’s world, delving deeper into the lore of the demonic entities plaguing River Fields.

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Check out the new poster below, where you can also watch the trailer and a fresh clip.

Willa Holland (“Arrow”) stars as newly certified mortician Rebecca Owens, who accepts a night shift at a mortuary, embalming bodies alone after hours.

As disturbing events escalate, Rebecca uncovers demonic rituals, the dark secrets of her enigmatic mentor, and her own buried trauma — racing to survive the night before her body becomes a vessel for possession.

Paul Sparks (“Boardwalk Empire”) also stars with John Adams (Hellbender), Keena Ferguson, and Mark Steger (“Stranger Things”) as The Mimic.

Jeremiah Kipp (Slapface) directs from a script by The Mortuary Assistant creator Brian Clarke and Tracee Beebe. 

Patrick Ewald’s Epic Pictures produces via Dread alongside Cole Payne’s Traverse Media and Jacob P. Heineke. Executive producers include Clarke, Katie Page, Yulissa Morales, Randy Sinquefield, Patrick Fischer, and Oliver Garboe.

Meagan Navarro wrote in her review, “That’s the primary expectation of The Mortuary Assistant: translating the scares to screen. Instead, lore takes tedious precedence in an adaptation unable to generate fear.”

Originally released on PC in 2022, The Mortuary Assistant quickly became a viral sensation and made its way to Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo Switch. The film expands on the game’s world, delving deeper into the lore of the demonic entities plaguing River Fields.

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Get lucky this St. Patrick’s Day with seven Leprechaun films arriving on Peacock, or catch up on the Saw franchise via Netflix. Another Friday the 13th arrives in March, so look to Paramount for your marathon needs. For new releases, sci-fi action comedy Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice debuts exclusively on Hulu after its SXSW World Premiere. Violent actioner Pretty Lethal pirouettes onto Prime Video after its SXSW premiere as well. 

Check out the March horror streaming lineup below.

HBO Max

March 1
Angel’s Egg
Blair Witch
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
Final Destination
Final Destination 2
Final Destination 3
Final Destination 5
Happy Death Day
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
Men (2022)
The Blair Witch Project
The Bride of Frankenstein
The Final Destination (2009)

Hulu

March 27
Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice

March 28
Dangerous Animals

March 31
House on Eden

Kanopy

March 6
Midsommar
I Saw the TV Glow

March 20
I See You

Netflix

March 1
Goosebumps
Jurassic World
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
Legion
Misery
Stephen King’s Sleepwalkers
Zombieland

March 2
Jurassic World: Dominion

March 6
War Machine

March 19
Jigsaw
Saw
Saw II
Saw III
Saw IV
Saw V
Saw VI
Saw X
Saw: The Final Chapter

Paramount+

March 1
Assassination Nation
Below
Beneath
Case 39
Crawl
Cursed
Friday the 13th
Friday the 13th Part II
Friday the 13th Part III
Friday the 13th Part IV: The Final Chapter
Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning
Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood
Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
Pet Sematary (1989)
Pet Sematary (2019)
Pet Sematary II (1992)
The Gift
The Ruins

Peacock

March 1
Death Becomes Her
Death Race
Friday the 13th
Friday the 13th – Part III
Leprechaun
Leprechaun II
Leprechaun III
Leprechaun 4: Lost in Space
Leprechaun V: In the Hood
Leprechaun VI: Back 2 tha Hood
Leprechaun Origins

March 27
Bambi: The Reckoning

March 31
Come Play
Hellboy

Pluto TV

March 1
April Fool’s Day
Area 51
Bless the Child
Bones and All
Brahms: The Boy II
Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Carriers
Censor
Cloverfield
Cujo
Cursed
DeepStar Six
Disturbia
Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark
Event Horizon
Fear Pharm
Funhouse
Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth
Hellraiser: Bloodline
Hellraiser: Deader
Hellraiser: Hellseeker
Hellraiser: Hellworld
Hellraiser: Inferno
Hide and Seek
I Saw the TV Glow
King’s Graveyard Shift
Men (2022)
Mimic
Mimic 2
Mimic 3: Sentinel
Organ Trail
Paranormal Activity
Paranormal Activity 2
Paranormal Activity 3
Paranormal Activity 4
Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension
Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones
Phantoms
Phase IV
Silent Hill
Sleepy Hollow
Stephen King’s Silver Bullet
Stephen King’s Thinner
Student Bodies
The Crow
The Crow: City of Angels
The Crow: Wicked Prayer
The Dead Zone
The Devil Inside
The Final Girls
The Haunting
The Hole in the Ground
The Prophecy
The Prophecy 3: The Ascent
The Prophecy II
The Prophecy: Forsaken
The Prophecy: Uprising
The Relic
The Ring
The Ring Two
The Sacrament
Vacancy (2007)
What Lies Beneath
When a Stranger Calls (2006)
White God
Zodiac

Prime Video

March 1
Carrie (1976)
Carrie (2013)
Dressed to Kill
Halloween With The New Addams Family
Hannibal
Resident Evil (2002)
Teen Wolf (1985)
The Shallows
The Silence of the Lambs

March 25
Pretty Lethal

Screambox

March 6
Arachnado
Foibles
Hallucinations of a Deranged Mind

March 10
Pig Hill

March 13
Restraint
They Wait In the Dark

March 20
Ilsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks
Ilsa, the Wicked Warden
Hanukkah: Uncut
The Things You Kill
Vampire Zombies From Space!

March 24
The Daemon

March 27
Dabbe 5: Curse Of The Jinn
The Frankenstein Complex
Good Manners
Kombucha
Phil Tippett: Mad Dreams and Monsters
The Slaughterhouse KillerS

Shudder

March 1
Bridge to Nowhere
Embodiment of Evil
In Search of Darkness
Messiah of Evil
Monolith
The Last Horror Film
The Last Video Store
The Woman

March 6
Lilly Lives Alone

March 9
The Beastmaster
Evilspeak
Fade to Black
Hostile Dimensions

March 13
Bodycam

March 15
The Alchemist Cookbook
Buzzard
Relaxer
Vulcanizadora

March 20
1000 Women in Horror

March 22
She Loved Blossoms More

March 27
The Mortuary Assistant

March 31
An American Werewolf in London
Hostel
Hostel Part II
May
Rob Zombie’s Halloween
Rob Zombie’s Halloween II
The Fog
Sorority Row
Wolf Creek

Tubi

March 1
A Breed Apart
Anaconda 3: Offspring
Anaconda: Hunt For The Blood Orchid
Anacondas: Trail Of Blood
Case 39
Escape Room: Tournament Of Champions
Exorcist: The Beginning (2004)
I Saw the TV Glow
Jennifer’s Body
Men (2022)
Mirrors
Morbius
Priest
Resident Evil: Damnation
Resident Evil: Death Island
Resident Evil: Degeneration
Resident Evil: Vendetta
Scouts Guide To The Zombie Apocalypse
The Amityville Horror (2005)
The Hole In The Ground
The Monster Squad
Warhunt

March 9
Possessor

March 15
Exorcism of God

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Here’s all the new horror released on Friday, February 13, 2026!

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After Good Boy and Presence told haunted house tales from unique perspectives — a dog and a ghost, respectively — we now have a haunted house movie from the house’s point of view.

The House Was Not Hungry Then is available on Digital now.

The unique Scottish horror movie revolves around an abandoned house in the Scottish countryside that holds a terrible secret. Day after day, a man posing as a real estate agent lures visitors inside, and one by one they disappear. One night a young woman searching for her estranged father takes refuge inside, but soon begins to feel she’s not alone.

As she gets closer to learning the truth about her father, she explores the dark interior and eavesdrops on the disturbing relationship between the house and its caretaker.

Writer-director Harry Aspinwall makes his feature debut on the film, which stars Bobby Rainsbury (Filth), Clive Russell (“Game of Thrones”), and Bill Paterson (The Witches).

The psychological sci-fi horror slow-burner Honey Bunch from Dusty Mancinelli and Madeleine Sims-Fewer (Violation) is now streaming exclusively on Shudder in the U.S.

The film follows Diana, who wakes from a coma with fragmented memories. Her husband takes her to a facility deep in the wilderness, but she can’t remember why. As her memories begin to creep back in, so do some unwelcome sinister truths about her marriage.

Grace Glowicki (“Strawberry Mansion”), Ben Petrie (BlackBerry), Jason Isaacs (“The White Lotus”), Kate Dickie (The Witch), India Brown (“Invasion”), and Julian Richings (Cube) star.

Meagan Navarro wrote in her review out of TIFF, “It’s as ambitious as it is weird, making for one unpredictable foray into sci-fi horror weirdness with a sticky-sweet center.”

Based on the hit horror video game, The Mortuary Assistant is now playing only in select theaters via Epic Pictures. You’ll find it streaming on Shudder beginning March 27.

The Mortuary Assistant follows newly certified mortician Rebecca Owens, who accepts a night shift at a mortuary, embalming bodies alone after hours. As disturbing events escalate, Rebecca uncovers demonic rituals, the dark secrets of her enigmatic mentor, and her own buried trauma — racing to survive the night before her body becomes a vessel for possession.

Willa Holland (“Arrow”) and Paul Sparks (“Boardwalk Empire”) star, with Mark Steger (“Stranger Things”) as The Mimic. The Mortuary Assistant creator Brian Clarke co-wrote the script with Tracee Beebe. Jeremiah Kipp (Slapface) directs.

Originally released on PC in 2022, The Mortuary Assistant quickly became a viral sensation and made its way to Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo Switch. The film will expand on the game’s world, delving deeper into the lore of the demonic entities plaguing River Fields.

A quiet night shift gets explosive in gross-out ways for Joe Keery (“Stranger Things “) and Georgina Campbell (Barbarian, The Watchers) in the sci-fi horror comedy Cold Storage.

The film is now playing only in theaters.

In Cold Storage, “Teacake (Keery) and Naomi (Campbell), two young employees of a self-storage company built on the site of an old US military base, have their wildest night shift ever when a parasitic fungus escapes from the lowest sublevel of the base, where it was sealed by the government decades before. As the temperature rises underground, this highly contagious and rapidly mutating microorganism multiplies and unleashes its brain-controlling, body-bursting terrors on the facility’s inhabitants – human and otherwise.

“With time running out, it’s down to Teacake and Naomi, with the help of a grizzled retired bioterror operative (Liam Neeson), to contain the merciless menace and prevent the explosive extinction of Mankind itself.” Sosie Bacon (Smile), Vanessa Redgrave (Mission: Impossible), and Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread) also star in the horror-comedy.

The follow-up feature to Jurassic World: Rebirth and Presence from esteemed writer David Koepp (Jurassic Park, Death Becomes Her), based on Koepp’s novel of the same name, is directed by Jonny Campbell (Netflix’s Dracula). Zombieland’s Gavin Polone produces.

A teenage dream becomes a rock star’s nightmare in Sweetness, which looks like a modern riff on Misery through a Gen Z lens. The thriller is now available on VOD via Saban Films.

In Sweetness, “When a superfan learns that her rock star idol is spiraling into addiction, she makes it her mission to save him, whether he wants her help or not. But when her desperate plan spirals out of control, she kidnaps him in a delusional attempt to “fix” him. What begins as compassion turns into captivity, as she locks him away in the name of love.”

Kate Hallett (Women Talking) and Herman Tømmeraas (“Ragnarok”) star with Aya Furukawa (“The Midnight Club”), Justin Chatwin (War of the Worlds), Steven Ogg (“The Walking Dead”), and Amanda Brugel (Jason X). Juno Award-winning Canadian writer-director Emma Higgins makes her feature debut with Sweetness.

From Popeye the Slayer Man producer Jeff Miller, the Twisted Serial Killer Universe kicks off with Ted Bunny. No, that’s not a typo. And it’s now available on VOD outlets.

Ted Bunny introduces the illegitimate son of serial killer Ted Bundy. Raised around rabbits, the crazed heir goes on a killing spree after a documentary crew shows up at his house.

Genre legend Dee Wallace (E.T., Cujo) stars alongside Diana Roman, Brad Satterwhite, Trent Avvenire, Zanna Wyatt, and Bryan Palacios as Ted Bundy.

Michael Fredianelli directs from a script he wrote with Maralynn Adams.

“The film is a throwback to old school horror with a traditional ’80s style primarily meant to evoke nostalgic thrills,” said Fredianelli. “My goal was to balance an interesting and compelling origin story that ties into real-life horror, while maintaining the slasher spirit of crazy kills, idiots in the woods, and awful characters ultimately getting exactly what they deserve.”

Miller’s Twisted Serial Killer Universe will continue in Jeffrey Dollmer.

From the mind of Kristoffer Polaha comes his directorial debut, Mimics, a genre-bending blend of horror, fun, and romance that’s now playing in theaters for Friday the 13th.

Here’s the logline: “Down-on-his-luck impressionist Sam Reinhold makes a pact with Fergus—a wicked, strings-attached puppet—that holds the promise to propel Sam to stardom, unleashing a nightmare that threatens the safety of those he holds dear.”

Filmed in Reno, Nevada, Mimics stars Nashville-based Latina Country singer Mōriah, Saturday Night Live icon Chris Parnell, Stephen Tobolowsky, and Polaha himself.

“I was drawn to this unique story that explores fame and the supernatural, while managing to be at turns funny, romantic, and spooky,” says Polaha. “The movie is a romp. Working on both sides of the camera to tell this story was an extremely gratifying experience.”

It’s all just part of the show… right? The latest horror movie to turn a haunted attraction into a real-life murder party is The Haunted Forest, which is now available on VOD outlets.

In The Haunted Forest, “When Zach, a high-school senior obsessed with all things horror and Halloween, goes to work at his cousin’s famous haunted forest attraction, a series of real-life killings makes him question his devotion to the world of the macabre.”

Indie horror newcomer Keith Boynton wrote and directed The Haunted Forest.

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However, this isn’t always the case, as the rise of interactive horror has allowed genre creators to explore a new avenue of unpredictable frights in the world of videogames. While scripted events like dogs jumping through windows in the original Resident Evil work in much the same way as the static terror of a traditional scary movie, some games opt for a more random distribution of frights meant to keep players constantly on their toes.

One of the most successful examples of this is DarkStone Digital’s The Mortuary Assistant, a 2022 indie horror title that took the world by storm with its chilling mix of job simulation (with the player actually having to go through with their assigned procedures despite the hauntings) and unpredictable jump scares/story events that make every single playthrough unique. With the game turning into a household name, it’s only natural that Hollywood would soon come knocking with an offer to adapt the title into a feature-length movie.

Fast forward to 2026 and Jeremiah Kipp’s The Mortuary Assistant is releasing in limited theaters today, Friday the 13th. In honor of this long-awaited adaptation looking like a faithful re-imagining of its source material, I think it’s worth looking back on the procedurally-generated scares that made the game so popular in the first place, and how Kipp might go about adapting such a unique experience.

Before Darkstone Digital grew into a fully-fledged studio, solo developer Brian Clarke began working on his initial version of The Mortuary Assistant during early 2020. This early prototype was more streamlined and focused less on accurately emulating a real funeral home, but Clarke was surprised to learn that fans were actually willing to support a potential full release simulating real-life embalming techniques while also exploring the story behind the haunting.

It’s precisely this juxtaposition of horror imagery and the day-to-day requirements of a repetitive job that ended up making the project so special, with Clarke soon realizing that he had found a formula capable of sustaining unlimited scares. Since players would always be busy repeating a familiar gameplay loop, any variation of the established formula would immediately stand out as a sign that something was very wrong, with this unpredictability leaving players in a constant state of paranoia even when nothing was happening.

However, despite appearing in random order, the scares themselves were also expertly crafted. Not only are many of these unsettling moments used to flesh out Rebecca’s character and reference her troubling family history (with some of these scenes even showing up in the trailer for the new movie), but Clarke has since gone on record explaining that his main influence when coming up with the title’s supernatural shenanigans came from viral internet videos and found footage movies.

Apparently, the developer wanted to combine modern internet horror tropes with psychological thrills in order to breathe new life into the possession subgenre, with the randomization serving as a way to keep things from feeling like a spooky walking simulator. The procedural presentation also meant that players would be encouraged to play the title over and over again in order to experience a fresh set of scares, making the game into something of an evergreen compilation of the best tropes of the genre.

This also applies to The Mortuary Assistant’s story, as a single shift might be enough for you to get the overall gist of the situation, but it’ll likely take you a handful of runs in order to truly begin to unearth the secrets of River Fields Mortuary. And since the game only gives out a bite-sized portion of narrative at a time, players have no choice but to keep coming back for more. This is why the big-screen adaptation needs to take extra care when translating all of these elements to film, as The Mortuary Assistant was perfectly tailored for an interactive medium.

It would undoubtedly be fun to see Kipp implement a Clue-inspired gimmick where different theaters get to see different cuts of the film with multiple alternate endings, but it makes more sense for the filmmaker to simply dig into Clarke’s influences and borrow from the same sources he did when coming up with scares for the movie. We may have to settle for a linear sequence of frights, but I’m still excited to watch these elaborate scares play out like big-budget Life of Luxury videos with homages to cult classic movies like As Above So Below.

That’s why I think merely adapting the overall narrative (which is surprisingly in-depth if you’re patient enough to explore all of the title’s puzzles) and the “workplace horror” aspect of the experience is the right way to go, especially since fans can simply go home and play the original game after watching the movie if they feel like they need an extra dose of demonic thrills. In fact, I really like the idea of the film and the game being complementary projects instead of competing products.

And with other procedurally-generated indie hits like Exit 8 getting their own successful film adaptations (with that one even impressing audiences at Cannes last year), I know I’m not the only one excited to see how different filmmakers manage to translate one of the most interesting trends in modern horror media.

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That’s the primary expectation of The Mortuary Assistant: translating the scares to screen. Instead, lore takes tedious precedence in an adaptation unable to generate fear.

Introductions to the eponymous character, Rebecca Owens (Willa Holland), and her sullen mentor Raymond Delver (Paul Sparks) get things off to a strong start with an embalming scene showcasing strong practical effects work while establishing some key intel about Rebecca’s new gig. Rebecca’s too preoccupied with her work to notice the cadaver she’s preparing moved, or that Raymond’s peculiar behavior and explicit, creepy warnings to steer clear of the basement indicate something’s seriously amiss with the place. It’s heavy foreshadowing, of course, as Rebecca will eventually find herself alone on the nightshift, ill-prepared for the onslaught of demonic activity.

Once the setup and introductions are out of the way, though, director Jeremiah Kipp, working from a script by Clarke and Tracee Beebe, pulls the curtain back far too wide and too soon. It quickly becomes a scattershot telling of Rebecca’s backstory, her history with addiction and loss, and her lonely present, punctuated by demonic activity in the mortuary to drive home the addiction as possession horror metaphor shaping this adaptation. Holland handles the emotional demands of her role well enough, but quickly becomes lost in the clumsy storytelling that traps Rebecca in a bland cycle of trauma and demonic terror.

Production Designer Chelsea Turner successfully recreates set pieces lifted straight out of the game, and Norman Cabrera Monsters FX house painstakingly brings some of the game’s most haunting entities to screen. If only Kipp employed these valuable assets with any sense of tension or urgency. The scene-stealing Mimic looks great and is wisely used sparingly, but struggles to evoke any semblance of terror in this sleepwalking feature. And Mimic fares stronger than the rest of the lurking entities; most fail to register at all, thanks to the choppy editing and focus on Rebecca’s fractured mental state.

An early line of dialogue points out the open layout of the mortuary, meant to highlight how vulnerable and exposed Rebecca will become as she’s left alone at night, or so she thinks. It’s a callback to the game, of course, but it’s an element the film has no desire to engage with. Despite Turner’s great work, Kipp never pauses long enough to build atmosphere or tension from his creepy setting, offer a clear sense of geography, or let its denizens have their intended impact. There’s a flatness to the scares and a noticeable lack of suspense throughout, as a result.

The game’s lore does factor heavily into the film’s final act, so much so that it robs the film of an actual climax. The heavy-handed addiction metaphor also rears its ugly head as Rebecca’s plight abruptly gives way to lengthy exposition. It’s a sluggish finish to a familiar possession story, even if adhering faithfully to the game.

All might be forgiven if The Mortuary Assistant delivered on what made the game such a success: scaring you silly. The imagery is there, but woefully misutilized. Kipp never lingers long enough on any of it to register; scare tactics get repetitive, and atmosphere is nonexistent. This nightshift nightmare is far more likely to put you to sleep.

The Mortuary Assistant releases in theaters on February 13 before streaming on Shudder beginning March 27.

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Based on the hit horror video game, the film hits theaters tomorrow, February 13, via Epic Pictures before streaming on Shudder beginning March 27.

It follows newly certified mortician Rebecca Owens, who accepts a night shift at a mortuary, embalming bodies alone after hours. As disturbing events escalate, Rebecca uncovers demonic rituals, the dark secrets of her enigmatic mentor, and her own buried trauma — racing to survive the night before her body becomes a vessel for possession.

Willa Holland (“Arrow”) and Paul Sparks (“Boardwalk Empire”) star with John Adams (Hellbender), Keena Ferguson, and Mark Steger (“Stranger Things”) as The Mimic.

Jeremiah Kipp (Slapface) directs from a script by The Mortuary Assistant creator Brian Clarke and Tracee Beebe. 

Originally released on PC in 2022, The Mortuary Assistant quickly became a viral sensation and made its way to Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo Switch. The film will expand on the game’s world, delving deeper into the lore of the demonic entities plaguing River Fields.

Patrick Ewald’s Epic Pictures produces via Dread alongside Cole Payne’s Traverse Media and Jacob P. Heineke. Executive producers include Clarke, Katie Page, Yulissa Morales, Randy Sinquefield, Patrick Fischer, and Oliver Garboe.

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Following in the wake of Markiplier’s video game adaptation Iron Lung, The Mortuary Assistant will haunt theaters beginning this Friday (the 13th): February 13, 2026.

Get possessed by the official trailer for The Mortuary Assistant movie below.

Based on the hit horror video game, the film will be released exclusively in theaters on February 13 via Epic Pictures before streaming only on Shudder beginning March 27, 2026.

The horror movie follows newly certified mortician Rebecca Owens, who accepts a night shift at a mortuary, embalming bodies alone after hours. As disturbing events escalate, Rebecca uncovers demonic rituals, the dark secrets of her enigmatic mentor, and her own buried trauma — racing to survive the night before her body becomes a vessel for possession.

Willa Holland (“Arrow”) and Paul Sparks (“Boardwalk Empire”) star with John Adams (Hellbender), Keena Ferguson, and Mark Steger (“Stranger Things”) as The Mimic.

Jeremiah Kipp (Slapface) directs the feature adaptation of the terrifying video game from a script by The Mortuary Assistant creator Brian Clarke and Tracee Beebe. 

Originally released on PC in 2022, The Mortuary Assistant quickly became a viral sensation and made its way to Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo Switch. The film will expand on the game’s world, delving deeper into the lore of the demonic entities plaguing River Fields.

Produced by Epic Pictures, via its horror division, DREAD, the sister company of indie horror game publisher DreadXP, as well as Cole Payne’s Traverse Media, and Jacob P. Heineke.

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Based on the hit horror video game, the film will be released in theaters on February 13 via Epic Pictures before streaming on Shudder beginning March 27.

It follows newly certified mortician Rebecca Owens, who accepts a night shift at a mortuary, embalming bodies alone after hours. As disturbing events escalate, Rebecca uncovers demonic rituals, the dark secrets of her enigmatic mentor, and her own buried trauma — racing to survive the night before her body becomes a vessel for possession.

Willa Holland (“Arrow”) and Paul Sparks (“Boardwalk Empire”) star with John Adams (Hellbender), Keena Ferguson, and Mark Steger (“Stranger Things”) as The Mimic.

Jeremiah Kipp (Slapface) directs from a script by The Mortuary Assistant creator Brian Clarke and Tracee Beebe. 

Originally released on PC in 2022, The Mortuary Assistant quickly became a viral sensation and made its way to Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo Switch. The film will expand on the game’s world, delving deeper into the lore of the demonic entities plaguing River Fields.

Patrick Ewald’s Epic Pictures produces via Dread alongside Cole Payne’s Traverse Media and Jacob P. Heineke. Executive producers include Clarke, Katie Page, Yulissa Morales, Randy Sinquefield, Patrick Fischer, and Oliver Garboe.

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The movie will be released in theaters nationwide on February 13 via Epic Pictures before streaming on Shudder beginning March 27.

It follows newly certified mortician Rebecca Owens, who accepts a night shift at a mortuary, embalming bodies alone after hours. As disturbing events escalate, Rebecca uncovers demonic rituals, the dark secrets of her enigmatic mentor, and her own buried trauma — racing to survive the night before her body becomes a vessel for possession.

Willa Holland (“Arrow”) and Paul Sparks (“Boardwalk Empire”) star, with Mark Steger (“Stranger Things”) as The Mimic.

The Mortuary Assistant creator Brian Clarke co-wrote the script with Tracee Beebe. Jeremiah Kipp (Slapface) directs.

Originally released on PC in 2022, The Mortuary Assistant quickly became a viral sensation and made its way to Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo Switch. The film will expand on the game’s world, delving deeper into the lore of the demonic entities plaguing River Fields.

Patrick Ewald’s Epic Pictures produces via Dread alongside Cole Payne’s Traverse Media and Jacob P. Heineke. Executive producers include Clarke, Katie Page, Yulissa Morales, Randy Sinquefield, Patrick Fischer, and Oliver Garboe.

“With The Mortuary Assistant, we’re thrilled to translate one of gaming’s most unnerving experiences into a relentlessly immersive feature film,” said Ewald. “This is an authentic adaptation grounded in the same dread, the same characters, and the same world that made the game so unforgettable.”

Ewald continues, “We’re bringing River Fields Mortuary to life in full detail, building it from the ground up as a practical set to preserve its claustrophobic atmosphere and sinister realism. The result is a chilling blend of storytelling and sustained tension, and we can’t wait for audiences to step into this terrifying new chapter of horror cinema.”

“Seeing The Mortuary Assistant make the leap from game to film is incredibly rewarding,” added Clarke. “Fans of the game will finally witness the world they’ve explored come alive, while genre film audiences will discover a story filled with tension, dark secrets, and unforgettable scares. It’s a unique crossover that bridges two communities of horror fans in a way I’ve always imagined.”

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Even more exciting is that this only covers what’s already been announced; expect to get inundated with surprise announcements and film festival discoveries to further fill the calendar with horror goodies. Until then, this guide covers the notable highlights, from big releases like Scream 7 and Evil Dead Burn to anticipated chillers like Hokum, Obsession, and beyond.

Welcome to Bloody Disgusting’s 2026 Horror Preview.

If this preview of the year’s looming horror offerings is any indication, 2026 is going to be a whirlwind for nonstop horror. Of course, expect some release dates to shift and many surprises yet to be announced in the coming months. In other words, this is only the beginning of the year’s horror offerings. Could this be the year for Adam Wingard’s Onslaught, for example? We’re keeping our fingers crossed. Mike Flanagan’s Untitled Exorcist film shifted off its March release date, but could it still arrive in 2026? We’ll have to wait and see. 

In the meantime, buckle up for all the horror on the horizon.

Here are over 50 horror movies we’re excited to check out in 2026.

We Bury the Dead – January 2

Daisy Ridley stars as a woman searching for her husband after a catastrophic military disaster causes mass casualties, who then return from the dead.  And they’re growing more violent the longer they’re undead. The latest from writer/director Zak Hilditch (1922) also stars Brenton Thwaites (Ghosts of War, Maleficent), Mark Coles Smith (Beast of War), and Matt Whelan (“Narcos”).

Primate – January 9

The Strangers: Prey at Night and 47 Meters Down director Johannes Roberts revives the killer chimp horror movie with mischievous glee. It stars Johnny Sequoyah and Oscar®-winning Troy Kotsur (CODA) in his first horror role. The plot sees a tropical getaway interrupted by a family’s pet turned violent, prompting a terrifying bid for survival.

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple – January 16

Nia DaCosta takes the helm for the second installment of this trilogy. It’ll pick up from the previous film, following Jack O’Connell’s “Sir Jimmy Crystal“ and his merry band of evil-doers, with young hero Spike (Alfie Williams) now under his wing. Also expect Ralph Fiennes’ Dr. Kelson and his breathtaking memorial to death to play a major role.

A Useful Ghost – January 16

Thailand’s official submission for Best International Feature Film at the 98th Academy Awards introduces an unconventional love story. It follows a grieving widower who discovers his deceased wife has possessed a vacuum cleaner. Love sucks in this supernatural comedy.

Killer Whale – January 16

Halloween 2018’s Virginia Gardner, Mel Jarnson, and Mitchell Hope star in an aquatic thriller that sees a beach getaway upended by not a shark, but a killer whale. Jo-Anne Brechin (Designing Christmas With You) directs from a script co-written with Katharine E. McPhee.

Night Patrol – January 16

An LAPD officer puts aside differences with the local street gangs when he discovers the local force is harboring a dangerous secret in the latest from Lowlife and V/H/S/94 director Ryan Prows. Justin Long, CM Punk, Jermaine Fowler, RJ Cyler, Freddie Gibbs, YG, Flying Lotus, Dermot Mulroney, Jon Oswald, and Nicki Micheaux star.

Dooba Dooba – January 23

A babysitting gig grows increasingly uncomfortable by the child’s baffling behavior in the found footage horror movie from Ehrland Hollingsworth. Dooba Dooba was shot entirely on an in-home security camera and draws on elements of analog horror popularized on YouTube. 

Mother of Flies – January 23

A young woman facing mortality ventures into the woods to escape death in the latest from filmmaking trio Toby Poser, John Adams, and Zelda Adams (Hellbender, Where the Devil Roams, Hell Hole), collectively known as the Adams Family. Lulu Adams also stars in the witchy tale.

Return to Silent Hill – January 23

Director Christophe Gans returns to the Silent Hill franchise with an adaptation of the beloved game Silent Hill 2. Jeremy Irvine is James, alongside Hannah Emily Anderson as Mary Crane. You live here now…

Iron Lung – January 30

A convict navigates an ocean of blood on a desolate moon via submarine in a desperate search for survival resources. Content creator Markiplier self-releases his self-financed adaptation of the indie horror game created by David Szymanski, named by Bloody Disgusting as one of the Best Indie Horror Video Games You Might’ve Missed in 2022.

Send Help – January 30

Sam Raimi (The Evil Dead, Drag Me to Hell) is back in the director’s seat with the darkly comedic psychological thriller written by Damian Shannon & Mark Swift (Friday the 13th, Freddy vs Jason). Linda Liddle (Rachel McAdams) and Bradley Preston (Dylan O’Brien) find themselves dealing with violent work grievances once marooned on an island.

Worldbreaker – January 30

Director Brad Anderson (Session 9, The Machinist) teams with stars Luke Evans (Dracula Untold) and Milla Jovovich (Resident Evil franchise) on a post-apocalyptic sci-fi action thriller that puts a family in the crosshairs of a monster siege that’s destroying humanity.

Dracula – February 6 

Luc Besson (Léon: The Professional, The Fifth Element) puts his own spin on the literary classic, with Caleb Landry Jones (Get Out) as the bloodsucking prince. Christoph Waltz (Django Unchained) and Zoë Bleu also star; Danny Elfman (Batman, Beetlejuice) composed the score.

The Strangers: Chapter 3 – February 6

Renny Harlin’s reboot trilogy comes to a close, with Madelaine Petsch returning as Maya for the final girl’s ultimate confrontation with the masked killers. Gabriel Basso (Super 8), Ema Horvath (“The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power”), Pablo Sandstrom, and Richard Brake (Barbarian) round out the cast.

Whistle – February 6

 The Nun director Corin Hardy is back with cursed object horror movie Whistle, which sees high school teens dealing with a deadly curse they unwittingly unleash when they discover an Aztec Death Whistle. Dafne Keen (Logan, “The Acolyte “), Sophie Nélisse (“Yellowjackets”), Sky Yang (Rebel Moon), Percy Hynes White (“Wednesday”), and Nick Frost (Shaun of the Dead) star.

Cold Storage – February 13

A quiet nightshift turns deadly when a parasitic fungus escapes from the lowest sublevel of a buried military base in the horror-comedy adaptation of the novel by David Koepp (Jurassic Park, Death Becomes Her). Liam Neeson, Joe Keery (“Stranger Things “) and Georgina Campbell (Barbarian, The Watchers) star in the film helmed by Jonny Campbell (Netflix’s Dracula). 

Honey Bunch – February 13

Violation filmmakers Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli’s twisted love story tests a couple’s marriage when they check in at an experimental medical facility in a bid to reverse amnesia. Instead, mistrust ensues as signs emerge that the place isn’t what it appears. Grace Glowicki (Dead Lover), Ben Petrie (Dead Lover), Jason Isaacs (“The White Lotus”, Event Horizon), Kate Dickie (The Witch), India Brown (“Invasion”), and Julian Richings (Beau is Afraid, Anything for Jackson) star.

Psycho Killer – February 20

A Kansas highway patrol officer tracks her husband’s murderer, one far more depraved and sadistic than she could’ve predicted in the Satanic slasher directed by Gavin Polone (Zombieland, Panic Room) and written by  Andrew Kevin Walker (Sleepy Hollow).  Georgina Campbell, James Preston Rogers (The Blackening), Grace Dove (The Revenant), Logan Miller (Escape Room), and Malcolm McDowell (Halloween, A Clockwork Orange) star.

Redux Redux – February 20

Irene Kelly travels through parallel universes, killing her daughter’s murderer over and over again, putting her humanity at stake in the sci-fi revenge thriller written and directed by brothers Kevin McManus and Matthew McManus (The Block Island Sound). Michaela McManus (“Law & Order: Special Victims Unit”), Jim Cummings (Halloween Kills), Jeremy Holm (“Mr. Robot”), Taylor Misiak (“Dave”), Grace Van Dien (“Stranger Things”), and newcomer Stella Marcus star.

This is Not a Test – February 20

Writer/Director Adam MacDonald (Out Come the Wolves, Pyewacket) adapts the 2012 young adult novel of the same name by Courtney Summers, which follows a group of high schoolers as the zombie apocalypse erupts mid-class. The YA horror movie stars Olivia Holt (Heart Eyes), Froy Gutierrez (The Strangers), Luke MacFarlane (“Bros”), Corteon Moore (“From”), Chloe Avakian (“Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy”), and Carson MacCormac (Clown in a Cornfield).

Scream 7 – February 27

Neve Campbell is back as Sidney Prescott, with the character taking center stage when Ghostface targets her daughter (Isabel May) in the seventh installment. She’ll be joined by returning players, including David Arquette, Courteney Cox, Scott Foley, and Matthew Lillard, with Mason Gooding and Jasmin Savoy Brown also set to reprise their roles from the previous two installments. Original Scream writer Kevin Williamson directs from a script by Guy Busick (Scream 2022, Scream VI) and Williamson.

The Bride! – March 6

Christian Bale is Frankenstein’s Monster and Jessie Buckley is the Bride of Frankenstein in director Maggie Gyllenhaal’s 1930s radical reimagining inspired by James Whale’s classic horror movie. One that will put the Bride first in her own story. The film also stars Peter Sarsgaard, Academy Award nominee Jake Gyllenhaal, and Oscar winner Penélope Cruz.

undertone – March 13

A paranormal podcast host finds more than she bargained for when she moves into her dying mother’s house to become her primary caregiver. The slow-burn liminal horror film stars Nina Kiri (“The Handmaid’s Tale”), Kris Holden-Ried (“The Umbrella Academy”), Michèle Duquet (The Virgin Suicides), Keana Lyn Bastidas (“The Hardy Boys”), and Jeff Yung (The Shrouds).

Alpha – March 27

The world collapses the day 13-year-old Alpha returns home with a tattoo on her arm in the latest from writer/director  Julia Ducournau (Raw, Titane). Golshifteh Farahani (The Patience Stone) and Tahar Rahim (“The Serpent”) star.

Hunting Matthew Nichols – March 27

Markian Tarasiuk’s directorial debut takes a pseudo-documentary approach and follows a sister searching for her brother, Matthew, who vanished in 2001 while filming a Blair Witch Project-inspired investigation into a local cult legend. Tarasiuk stars as himself alongside Miranda MacDougall and Ryan Alexander McDonald.

 Ready or Not: Here I Come – March 27

Ready or Not star Samara Weaving, directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett, and writers Guy Busick and R. Christopher Murphy are all back for the sequel that picks up moments after the last film. A new game ensues, this time with Kathryn Newton, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Shawn Hatosy, Néstor Carbonell, David Cronenberg, Elijah Wood, Kevin Durand, Olivia Cheng, Varun Saranga, and Daniel Beirne joining the explosive fun.

They Will Kill You – March 27

Zazie Beetz (Joker, Wounds) stars as a woman who answers a housekeeping ad for a New York high-rise, unaware that its inhabitants tend to go missing. Kirill Sokolov (Why Don’t You Just Die!) directs from a script co-written with Alex Litvak. The film also stars Myha’la (Bodies Bodies Bodies), Patricia Arquette, Heather Graham, and Tom Felton. Considering Ready or Not 2 shifted into the same release date, They Will Kill You may likely shift release dates.

Lee Cronin’s The Mummy – April 17

Evil Dead Rise director Lee Cronin gives his unique spin on the Mummy movie, with plot details under wraps. Jack Reynor (Midsommar) and Laia Costa (“The Wheel of Time”) star in the fresh take on the classic monster.

Apex – April 24

Charlize Theron will be fighting for her life next year in the Netflix survival thriller described as Free Solo meets Silence of the Lambs. Theron stars as a rock climber being hunted by a killer played by Taron Egerton (Carry-On). Baltasar Kormákur (Touch) directs from a script by Jeremy Robbins (“The Purge“ television series).  Eric Bana (Deliver Us from Evil) also stars. 

Deep Water – May 1

International passengers en route to Shanghai from LA instead find themselves in shark-infested waters in the new shark thriller from Deep Blue Sea director Renny Harlin. It stars Aaron Eckhart and Ben Kingsley, with Molly Wright (The Best Christmas Pageant Ever), Angus Sampson (Insidious), Kelly Gale (Plane), and Li Wenhan from K-pop group UNIQ.

Hokum – May 1

Adam Scott (“Severance”) stars as a reclusive novelist disturbed by witchy tales at an Irish inn. The new nightmare from Oddity writer/director Damian McCarthy also stars Peter Coonan (“The Alienist: Angel of Darkness”), David Wilmot (“Station Eleven”), Florence Ordesh (“Departure”), Will O’Connell (“Game of Thrones”), and Michael Patric (“Frontier”).

Obsession – May 15

A hopeless romantic gets far more than he bargained for after breaking the mysterious One Wish Willow to win his crush’s heart. Writer/Director Curry Barker (Milk & Serial) brings the scares and intensity in this wish-fulfillment horror movie starring Michael Johnston, Inde Navarrette, Cooper Tomlinson, Megan Lawless, and Andy Richter. Prepare to meet your newest horror Obsession.

Disclosure Day – June 12

Steven Spielberg is back in the science fiction world with Disclosure Day, written by frequent Spielberg collaborator David Koepp. The film stars SAG winner and Oscar® nominee Emily Blunt (Oppenheimer, A Quiet Place), Emmy and Golden Globe winner Josh O’Connor (Challengers, The Crown), Oscar® winner Colin Firth (The King’s Speech, Kingsman franchise), Eve Hewson (Bad Sisters, The Perfect Couple), and two-time Oscar® nominee Colman Domingo (Sing Sing, Rustin).

Scary Movie 6 – June 12

Miramax and Paramount are bringing the beloved horror spoof franchise back, and they’re getting the gang back together in celebration. Original creators Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, and Keenen Ivory Wayans are back, and so are Regina Hall, Anna Faris, Lochlyn Munro, Dave Sheridan, and Jon Abrahams. 

Shiver – July 3

What’s Fourth of July without sharks? Plot details are scarce for this shark thriller that stars Phoebe Dynevor (Fair Play), Whitney Peak (Hocus Pocus 2), and Djimon Hounsou (A Quiet Place: Part II). But it’s the director that signals violent fun ahead: Tommy Wirkola (Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, Dead Snow, Violent Night).

Evil Dead Burn – July 24

Director Sébastien Vaniček (Infested) aims to deliver one nasty Evil Dead movie, “a film that hurts.“ Souheila Yacoub (Dune: Part Two), Hunter Doohan (“Wednesday”), Luciane Buchanan (“The Night Agent”), and Tandi Wright (Pearl) star.

Flowervale Street – August 14

Up next from director David Robert Mitchell (It Follows) is a mysterious genre movie for J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot that’s rumored to feature dinosaurs. Anne Hathaway, Ewan McGregor, Maisy Stella, and Christian Convery star in the film described as a “thrill ride.”

Insidious: The Bleeding World – August 21

Elise Rainier (Lin Shaye) is back in the latest sequel, destined to venture into the Further once more to stomp some ghost butt.  Jacob Chase (Come Play) helms the sixth installment starring Amelia Eve (“The Haunting of Bly Manor”), Brandon Perea (Nope), Maisie Richardson-Sellers (“Legends of Tomorrow”), Sam Spruell (“Fargo”), and Island Austin. Chase co-wrote the script with David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick (The Conjuring 2, Orphan).

Clayface – September 11

DC is giving Batman villain Clayface the body horror treatment that’s being compared to David Cronenberg’s The Fly. James Watkins (The Woman in Black, Speak No Evil) directs from a script by Mike Flanagan (“The Haunting of Hill House,“ Doctor Sleep) and Hossein Amini (Drive). Tom Rhys Harries (The Gentlemen) and Naomi Ackie (Blink Twice) star.

Resident Evil – September 18

Zach Cregger takes on the Resident Evil franchise with a new entry designed to take the film back to the IP’s horror roots, one that won’t be too beholden to the lore. Kali Reis (“True Detective: Night Country”), Zach Cherry (“Severance”), Johnno Wilson (“Twisted Metal”), Austin Abrams (Weapons), and Paul Walter Hauser (The Naked Gun) are among the cast.

Other Mommy – October 9

Up next from director Rob Savage (Host) is an adaptation of Josh Malerman’s (Bird Box) horror novel that follows 8-year-old Bela, who lives in a home strained by her parents’ troubled marriage, only to see her life further upended by a sinister entity she calls “Other Mommy.“  Arabella Olivia Clark (The Housemaid), Jessica Chastain (IT: Chapter Two, Crimson Peak), Jay Duplass (“The Creep Tapes “), Dichen Lachman (“Severance”, Jurassic World: Dominion), Sean Kaufman (“The Summer I Turned Pretty”), and Adam Silver (Velvet Buzzsaw) star.

Whalefall – October 16

Austin Abrams stars as a diver in search of his deceased father’s remains who gets swallowed by an 80-foot, 60-ton sperm whale and has only one hour before his oxygen runs out. Brian Duffield (No One Will Save You) directs 20th Century Studios’ aquatic survival thriller from a script he co-wrote with Daniel Kraus, based on Kraus’ 2023 novel. Josh Brolin,  Elisabeth Shue (“The Boys”), Jane Levy (Evil Dead), John Ortiz (Kong: Skull Island), and Emily Rudd (Fear Street Part Two: 1978) also star.

Remain – October 23

A grieving architect moves to Cape Cod for work after leaving a psychiatric facility, where he meets a mysterious woman in the supernatural romance thriller from M. Night Shyamalan, based on the novel he co-wrote with author Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook, A Walk to Remember). Jake Gyllenhaal (Donnie Darko), Phoebe Dynevor (“Bridgerton”), and Ashley Walters (“Adolescence”) lead the cast.

Violent Night 2 – December 4

Santa Claus (David Harbour) is back and ready to smash skulls in the follow-up to 2022’s yuletide action thriller. Director Tommy Wirkola is also back to direct, alongside returning writers Pat Casey and Josh Miller. Daniela Melchiorand Kristen Belljoin the sequel.

Werwulf – December 25

The next movie from director Robert Eggers (The Witch, Nosferatu) is a 13th-century period piece described as a medieval horror movie. In it, a werewolf terrorizes a foggy countryside. The filmmaker co-wrote the screenplay for Werwulf alongside Sjón, the Icelandic poet and novelist who previously co-wrote the Viking movie The Northman with Eggers. The filmmaker reteams with Nosferatu stars Willem Dafoe, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and Lily-Rose Depp.

The Backrooms – TBD

Kane Parsons’ massively viral YouTube horror universe, known as The Backrooms, is headed to the big screen courtesy of A24. It stars Creep actor Mark Duplass, Finn Bennett (“True Detective”), Lukita Maxwell (Afraid), Avan Jogia (Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City), Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Renate Reinsve. Considering production took place over the summer of 2025, odds are likely this liminal horror movie will appear sometime in 2026.

Bodycam – TBD

When two police officers show up to investigate a domestic dispute, a startling escalation leads to a tragic accident. Not wanting to be crucified by the public, the officers attempt to cover it up – only to reveal that their body cameras aren’t the only things watching them. The latest from Night of the Reaper director Brandon Christensen is set to arrive on Shudder in 2026.

Crazy Old Lady – TBD

On a stormy evening, Pedro receives a desperate call from his ex-girlfriend asking him to look after her senile mother, Alicia. What begins as a simple favor soon turns into a terrifying ordeal when Alicia refuses to let him leave. Trapped in the house, he’s forced to play along with her sadistic games to survive the night. Crazy Old Lady will head to Shudder sometime in 2026.

Dolly – TBD

A young woman, Macy, fights for survival after being abducted by a deranged, monster-like figure who wants to raise Macy as their child in this grimy 70s-style horror movie from director Rod Blackhurst. Fabianne Therese, Seann William Scott, Ethan Suplee, and Max the Impaler star.

Forbidden Fruits – TBD

Free Eden employee Apple secretly runs a witchy femme cult in the basement of the mall store after hours – with fellow fruits Cherry and Fig. But when new hire Pumpkin challenges their performative sisterhood, the women are forced to face their own poisons or succumb to a bloody fate in this Diablo Cody-produced horror comedy. Lili Reinhart leads a cast that includes Lola Tung, Victoria Pedretti, Alexandra Shipp, Emma Chamberlain, and Gabrielle Union.

The Mortuary Assistant – TBD

A recent Mortician graduate discovers a sinister presence when she begins the night shift at her new job in this video game adaptation. The film is being directed by Jeremiah Kipp (Slapface) and co-written by Tracee Beebe (Dog Years) and game designer Brian Clarke. Willa Holland (“Arrow”) and Emmy Award Nominee Paul Sparks (“Boardwalk Empire”) star in the undated Shudder release.

Orphans – TBD

Isabelle Fuhrman returns as Esther in the upcoming prequel, also starring Stephen Moyer (“True Blood”), Susanne Wuest (Goodnight Mommy), and Simon Man (“Westworld”). William Brent Bell (Orphan: First Kill, The Boy) directs Orphans from a script by David Coggeshall (Orphan: First Kill, The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia).

Over Your Dead Body – TBD 

Samara Weaving and Jason Segel star as a couple who embark on a weekend getaway with secret plans to murder each other in the remake of Tommy Wirkola’s darkly comedic thriller The Trip. The film, adapted by Nick Kocher and Brian McElhaney, features an all-star lineup also including Timothy Olyphant, Juliette Lewis, Paul Guilfoyle, and Keith Jardine. The Lonely Island’s Jorma Taccone directs.

River – TBD

Genre favorites Jane Levy (Evil Dead) and Jessica Rothe (Happy Death Day) will face off against a masked killer in this Shudder release heading to theaters sometime in 2026. Max Mattern (“Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy”) and Dane DiLiegro (Prey) also star in the feature debut of writer/director Joshua Giuliano.

The Young People – TBD

Filmmaker Osgood Perkins continues his partnership with Neon with their fourth collaboration. Plot details are scarce, but it’s said to follow school friends, one of whom begins exhibiting strange behavior. Lola Tung and Nico Parker lead the ensemble, which also includes Nicole Kidman, Brendan Hines, Cush Jumbo, Heather Graham, Johnny Knoxville, Lexi Minetree, Lily Collias, and Tatiana Maslany.

What are you most looking forward to in 2026?

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Shudder has released a 10th birthday celebration video tonight featuring birthday greetings from various actors and filmmakers whose work has been featured on Shudder over the years, and it also features first-look sneak peeks at some upcoming Shudder nightmares.

Shudder’s 2026 slate includes The Mortuary Assistant, The Crazy Old Lady, Mother of Flies, Bodycam, Honey Bunch, Night Patrol, and Whistle, with many more titles sure to be announced throughout next year. Check out the video below for sneak peeks!

In case you’re wondering, The Mortuary Assistant is indeed an adaptation of Brian Clarke’s popular horror video game, which is being directed by Jeremiah Kipp (Slapface).

The story for The Mortuary Assistant involves mortician Rebecca Owens, who on her first night at River Fields Mortuary, learns of a sinister presence that resides there.

As the dead awaken and malevolent spirits bind themselves to her, Rebecca has to learn how to combat the demons (including the figurative demons of her past) and survive the night.

Stay tuned for more on that movie and all of Shudder’s upcoming releases.

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Alongside the acquisition announcement during San Diego Comic-Con’s “The Bold Voice Of Contemporary Horror” panel, Shudder also revealed the first image from the film featuring Willa Holland as Rebecca Owens, the game’s iconic protagonist, and was accompanied by an in-room exclusive clip. The footage offers an unsettling glimpse of Rebecca preparing to embalm a body as the mortuary’s lights begin to flicker – an eerie sequence that highlights key elements from the game, including the gurney, clipboard, and the letting strip.

“When Shudder indicated the clip from our film they wanted to share at Comic-Con, I was absolutely thrilled. The sequence captured everything I loved about Brian Clarke’s game: the middle of the night strangeness, its elegant minimalism, the ratcheting sense of anticipatory violence, the terror lurking around the corners – and most of all the resourcefulness and vulnerability of Rebecca Owens, played so thoughtfully by Willa Holland,” said director Jeremiah Kipp. “When [the game’s publisher] DreadXP approached me with this project, it resonated with me on a deep personal level – the way horror invites all your darkest demons to come out and play. Shudder and Dread handled my previous film Slapface with such generosity and care, it’s a profound joy to continue the relationship with The Mortuary Assistant.”

“It’s been a long and unbelievable road with The Mortuary Assistant. I never dreamed something I poured two years of my life into alone in a tiny home office could ever grow into an experience like this. I’m so grateful to Epic Pictures, DreadXP, and Shudder for giving a solo developer a chance at something so many devs dream of. Sharing your labor of love is a scary feeling but Jeremiah’s skill and dedication to the source material permeated every day of filming and The Mortuary Assistant quickly evolved into our labor of love. The amazing cast, and crew have created something beautiful and I couldn’t be more excited to have that same feeling of sharing The Mortuary Assistant with horror fans all over again,” said the game’s creator Brian Clarke.

“We’ve been admirers of The Mortuary Assistant since its original release, captivated by its atmosphere and psychological intensity,” said Director of Acquisitions and Productions Adam Koehler. “Under the direction of a filmmaker with a remarkable command of tone and suspense, the film expands on the game’s terrifying world in a way that feels both faithful and deeply cinematic. We’re beyond excited to bring this chilling experience to Shudder.”

The story for The Mortuary Assistant involves mortician Rebecca Owens, a recent Mortician Studies grad, who on her first night at River Fields Mortuary, learns of a sinister presence that resides there. As the dead awaken and malevolent spirits bind themselves to her, Rebecca has to learn how to combat the demons (including the figurative demons of her past) and survive the night.

The Mortuary Assistant was originally released in 2022 for PC via Steam, followed by releases on the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series, and the Xbox One.

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Based on the bestselling game created by Brian Clarke, The Mortuary Assistant follows “Rebecca Owens, a recent mortuary science graduate who takes a night shift job at River Fields Mortuary. Initially, the job seems straightforward — embalming bodies, completing paperwork, and keeping things tidy. But once Rebecca starts working the night shift, things take a dark turn.”

Holland will play Rebecca, with Sparks taking on the role of Raymond Delver, Rebecca’s mortician boss.

The feature adaptation is said to be “a new chapter in the story that will expand on the game’s world and mythology, delving deeper into the lore of the demonic entities plaguing River Fields.”

Tracee Beebe and Brian Clarke adapted the screenplay.  Jeremiah Kipp (Slapface) directs.

Clarke said in a statement, “Seeing The Mortuary Assistant evolve over the years from a small prototype to a full feature film is beyond anything I could have imagined as a solo developer. Jeremiah Kipp is an insanely skilled director, and it has been one of the highlights of my life working with him.

“Jeremiah and the entire team at Epic Pictures have done an amazing job capturing the spirit of the game while adding their own unique cinematic flair. It is an honor to see Willa and Paul bring these characters to life along with the rest of the film crew. I feel extremely fortunate and can’t wait for fans to see The Mortuary Assistant expand into new territory.”

The Mortuary Assistant was published in 2023 by DreadXP. Harrison Abbott wrote in his review of the game, “It’s unnerving, terrifically paced, narratively involving and mechanically inventive. In fact, when it’s all working as intended it’s genuinely one of the best indie horror games to have come out in recent years.”

Patrick Ewald’s Epic Pictures is producing via its horror outfit, Dread, alongside Cole Payne’s Traverse Media.

Stay tuned for additional details on The Mortuary Assistant movie as they arrive.

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Available for pre-order on October 31 at 1pm ET and shipping in early January, there will be 2000 PlayStation 5 copies of The Mortuary Assistant up for grabs, and 4000 Switch copies.

The PlayStation 5 version of The Mortuary Assistant from Super Rare Games will include the fully assembled PlayStation game with PS5 disc, interior art, manual, slipcover, and exclusive sticker. Meanwhile, the Switch version will have the fully assembled game on cartridge, interior art, full colour manual, an exclusive sticker, and a set of 3 card trading card pack.

For the hardcore fans, you can also purchase the booster card pack and trading card bundle on October 31, as well.

The Mortuary Assistant (which we reviewed here) centres around you having completed your degree in mortuary sciences, and as a result, have taken on an apprenticeship at River Fields Mortuary. Over the past several months you have logged many hours aiding the Mortician in daily tasks along with learning the ins and outs of the embalming process as well as how to properly handle and care for the deceased.

Late one night, you are called into work to handle some embalmings. Death doesn’t keep day time hours. But there is something different about these bodies because there is something different about you. The phone rings with the Mortician on the other end. The rumors are true, and you can not leave.

In addition to the Switch and PlayStation 5, The Mortuary Assistant is also available on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Xbox Series and PC via Steam.

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For starters, the new 1.2 patch adds a new ending to The Mortuary Assistant, along with new lore-based content for fans to devour. The update also includes new haunt events, as well as a new aggressiveness slider for haunts to adjust their frequency in the game. There are also three new bodies for the player to embalm (if you’ve got the stomach for it).

Thank you everyone for continuing to support and play The Mortuary Assistant! As I’ve stated in other posts, this update will be the last major update for the foreseeable future,” explains DarkStone’s Brian Clarke. “That doesn’t mean there won’t be any updates but I have been supporting MA exclusively for almost a year now and it is time for me to focus on new projects and content. Keep an eye out for random things like new bodies, haunts, etc. but the updates will slow dramatically from here. Thank you all again so much for being here to enjoy The Mortuary Assistant!”

The Mortuary Assistant is available on PC via Steam, as well as the Nintendo Switch.

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Available now on the Nintendo eShop for $24.99, The Mortuary Assistant centres on Rebecca Owens, a recent Mortician Studies grad, who on her first night at River Fields Mortuary, learns of a sinister presence that resides there. As the dead awaken and malevolent spirits bind themselves to her, Rebecca has to learn how to combat the demons (including the figurative demons of her past) and survive the night.

Meanwhile, if you’re looking for something a little more lighthearted, SPOOKWARE is also available via the Nintendo eShop for $9.99. The game involves the three skelebros -Lefti, Midi, and Righti- on a grand road trip through the cutesy world of the dead. After realizing they wasted their lives watching horror movies, they decide to embark on a big adventure that spans across 4 episodes, each containing 3 chapters with their own area, microgames, mechanics, and story.

And if you’re in need of a refresher, you can check out our reviews of The Mortuary Assistant and SPOOKWARE.

Meanwhile, we’re still waiting on news regarding the upcoming film adaptation of The Mortuary Assistant, which is to be directed by Jeremiah Kipp (Sins, Slapface).

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Does anyone else feel like they blinked, got up to get a soda, stepped out for a smoke, woke up from a four-hour nap, and now don’t know where they are, and it’s already the second week of December?

Well, fear not, dear reader, as we are all toiling in the weeks leading up to the holidays! Some love the season, others dread it, but no matter your creed or customs, we can all come together to celebrate what an absolutely stellar year it was for the horror genre in all its forms!

Whether it be the biggest of AAA or the most minuscule of indie releases, horror delivered in a big way in 2022. If you found solace or scares in the games you ravenously devoured this year, take a moment to spread the good word. Write a Steam review, write a tweet; hell, send a spooky carrier pigeon to a friend if you have to, but give back by spreading the word. 

While Neil and I spent last week discussing our favorite Horror Bytes of the year, this week sees us beginning to tackle the entirety of what 2022 had to offer. 

For the first part of our two-part Game of the Year coverage, Neil and I will chat about our #10 – #6 picks for 2022, with the following week to cover the remainder! –Jay Krieger

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. 

Feel free to follow the show and hosts on Twitter:

Safe Room | Neil | Jay

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DreadXP will partner with AMC Networks to produce the adaptation of the iconic horror anthology series, which is based on George R. Romero’s iconic 1982 film. DreadXP’s game is expected to land in 2024 across multiple platforms, with developer DarkStone Digital (creators of The Mortuary Assistant, which is slated to have a film adaptation) handling production.

“As massive fans of Creepshow, we are so excited to collaborate with AMC, Shudder, and Cartel Entertainment to bring that world to an interactive medium,” said Patrick Ewald, Managing Partner and Producer at DreadXP. Ted Hentskchke, Head of Dread XP Productions and Producer added, “The game will represent an expansion of our tremendously successful collaboration with Brian Clarke, whose expertise in crafting lore-rich narratives and clever scares makes him the perfect creative director for the project.”

And just like the films and TV show, DreadXP’s Creepshow video game will retain the anthology horror format, consisting of multiple self-contained horror stories that “cross gameplay genres and tone.” DreadXP obviously have experience with the format, given their Dread X Collection series. A full list of developers working on Creepshow will be announced at a later date.

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Currently in pre-production, Kipp will also be handling the writing duties for the film adaptation of The Mortuary Assistant. “There’s a quiet, unnerving intensity to The Mortuary Assistant that creeps into the player, creating a sense that something terrible could happen at any moment,” says Kipp. “Writing the adaptation, I wanted to celebrate all of the game that terrified me as well as create a companion piece to it — honoring the dense creepy world developer Brian Clarke (DarkStone Digital) made and translating it into the visual storytelling and character driven horror of narrative filmmaking.”

“It’s such a rare and exciting opportunity to have your work adapted into film. It’s certainly something I never imagined would happen to me when I started developing the game two years ago,” says Clarke. “Movies have always been the main inspiration for the style of my games. I’m always trying to create story, dialogue, and moments that feel filmic, so an opportunity to bring this project full circle is making a dream of mine a reality.”

The story for The Mortuary Assistant involves mortician Rebecca Owens, a recent Mortician Studies grad, who on her first night at River Fields Mortuary, learns of a sinister presence that resides there. As the dead awaken and malevolent spirits bind themselves to her, Rebecca has to learn how to combat the demons (including the figurative demons of her past) and survive the night.

The Mortuary Assistant is available now on Steam. And check out our take on the game.

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Irrespective of how well the end result turns out; you have to appreciate that a staggering amount of effort goes into every single title we play. It’s even a tall order for AAA companies, who typically have hundreds upon hundreds of employees toiling around the clock, equipped with the very best resources that money can buy.

So, when a solo developer manages to see one of their projects through to completion, we ought to get a Vatican-appointed commission to stop by and declare it a bona fide miracle. You’ve got to be extremely driven (or borderline insane) to shoulder the responsibilities of programming, art design, level design and narrative direction all by yourself. And though it may not be mandated by any studio heads or executive taskmasters, it’s inevitably going to require an awful lot of crunch.

Keeping that in mind, Brian Clarke (AKA DarkStone Digital) deserves to be commended for launching The Mortuary Assistant in any state whatsoever. Other than receiving some help with QA testing and the promotional side of things — courtesy of publisher DreadXP — this is his baby through and through.

The fact that it even resembles a finished product, never mind one that has flashes of brilliance, is a testament to his sheer talent and dedication. Unfortunately, the game is also very rough around the edges, marred by various performance issues and bugs.

Before delving into those technical shortcomings, it’s worth acknowledging that The Mortuary Assistant is great at its core. It’s unnerving, terrifically paced, narratively involving and mechanically inventive. In fact, when it’s all working as intended it’s genuinely one of the best indie horror games to have come out in recent years.

You play as Rebecca, a college graduate with a mortuary sciences degree, who is looking to get some practical experience in the field by taking on an apprenticeship at her local funeral parlour. Laughing off warnings from her doting grandmother, she disregards all the silly urban legends that have been linked to River Fields Mortuary (it’s rumoured to be a popular site for occult activity), and enthusiastically heads out for her first day on the job.

Upon arrival, the boss gives you a whistlestop tour of the place and shows you where to find all the tools needed for embalming a corpse. After that hasty induction is dispensed with, he then supervises your first ever attempt at processing a dead body.

Suffice it to say, it’s a very grisly undertaking — with you wiring shut the jaw, peeling eyelids open to insert prosthetic caps, making an incision in the jugular vein and draining fluids from the abdominal cavity — but it seems to be going rather well.

However, you can’t shake the feeling that something is just a little off here. Windows appear to open of their own accord and chemical bottles quite literally fly off the shelves, apropos of nothing. Your employer insists that there are perfectly mundane explanations for these weird phenomena, yet he also seems quite eager to rush you out of the building and sends you packing after only a few minutes.

Foolishly, you decide to ignore this mounting pile of red flags and turn up for a graveyard shift the very next evening, raring and ready to go. That’s when things swiftly turn from bad to worse.

The second you step through the reception door, your boss locks you into the mortuary and reveals that you are being targeted by an eldritch demonic force. Naturally, Rebecca’s first instinct is to assume that this is some sort of bizarre hazing ritual for the new girl, but it doesn’t take long for her to realize that the mortician is being deadly serious.

He’s even left a series of detailed audio recordings for you to play, explaining the steps for banishing this malevolent entity before it’s too late. In a nutshell, you’ve got to consult a paranormal encyclopedia (that will help you identify which demon is currently stalking Rebecca) and then thoroughly examine each of the bodies in cold storage, to find out which one is harbouring the supernatural curse.

Once you’ve figured out who you are dealing with, you must then perform the appropriate exorcism to rid yourself of the wicked spirit in question. Yet should you make a mistake, or needlessly dillydally with your investigation, then you will be vulnerable to possession. And then it’s game over.

The premise is sure to grab you right from the off, as it’s doing a lot of interesting things. For a start, it’s fun to see a horror title where you defeat evil, not through combat or stealthy evasion, but through an extended puzzle instead.

Using a combination of audio-visual hints, veiled sigils that can be exposed by flamelight, and the information gleaned from your mortuary reports, you must race against the clock to whittle down a list of possible demonic suspects. Like you’re playing a demented game of Clue! You can even go down a surprisingly deep rabbit hole by consuming the exhaustive lore that’s been documented on a special in-universe website, if you want to properly acquaint yourself with the enemy.

Finding the right demon and their host body is a compelling mystery the first time around, and it doesn’t lose its appeal on subsequent playthroughs either (despite the fact that you are mostly doing the same thing on a loop). It’s similar to how you can enjoy repetitious matches in games like Dead by Daylight or Among Us, even though the basic rules don’t change, because the specifics do.

Speaking of which, Clarke’s innovative “Haunt System” is The Mortuary Assistant’s secret weapon. For a more comprehensive breakdown of how this works you can check out Bloody Disgusting’s interview with the developer, but it essentially randomises the story events, changes the demon you’re up against and mixes up the scares, so that no two playthroughs are ever the same.

Its influence could be as minuscule as deciding when the lights will flicker in the examination room or where identifying marks show up on bodies. On the other hand, it could fundamentally alter the entire course of the narrative. For instance, in one playthrough you might be hounded by a pale creature (known as The Mimic), while in another you could be taken on a psychological journey through Rebecca’s devastating past or be tormented by the souls of her dead relatives.

The ingenious system keeps you constantly on your toes, preventing you from being able to memorize the puzzle outcomes or anticipate the frights. There are indeed a lot of variations for you to experience and you will absolutely want to keep coming back for more.

On that note, the replay value is also bolstered by Clarke’s keen ability to get under your skin. He knows just how to orchestrate an effective horror sequence and does so with admirable restraint. You won’t find any cheap jump scares here, as the developer goes in the polar opposite direction. Instead, he subtly hides creepy moments throughout the game right under your nose, many of which can be easily missed if you’re not looking hard enough.

Malign faces will appear in the background of photographs, scrawled notes will taunt you into committing suicide, rictus ghouls will silently materialize over your shoulder, and naked cadavers (with prosthetic caps eerily obscuring their eyes) will peer at you through rain-drenched windows.

You’re almost incentivised to go hunting for these macabre easter eggs, as some of them are really clever. During one shift, I went to have another listen to the tutorial voice notes (for a quick refresh on identifying the correct demon), only to discover that the audio recording had been replaced with a harrowing message from beyond the grave.

In addition to this, Clarke has mastered the fine art of the “Dread Scare”. If you’re not familiar with this term (coined by Kitty Horrorshow) it’s basically when a game coerces you into doing something that more genre-savvy players know will end badly — like investigating a strange noise, meddling with suspicious objects, or venturing into darkened environments.

In the case of The Mortuary Assistant, there are several instances where you will have to work up the courage to approach skeletal hands that are beckoning you into dimly lit rooms or walk down corridors that are blocked by menacing wraiths.

Then there are those duties you’ve got to perform as part of your 9-5 at the funeral home. Puncturing needles into a dead person’s gums and hooking up tubes to their internal organs is obviously unpleasant. Not to mention, there is the intensely gruesome trocar procedure, rendered here as a graphic minigame that is guaranteed to turn stomachs.

However, you’ll be surprised by how fast your visceral reaction to these things dissipates and you’ll soon be working your way down the checklist in a kind of autopilot. If the goal was to make you feel like a desensitised professional, whose job makes them numb to all the guts and gore, then Clarke did a bang-up job here.

After a while, the embalming process becomes a perversely satisfying routine and a welcome distraction from the more distressing supernatural encounters. So much so, that the fan community has already requested that a ghost-free simulator mode be added, letting you get on with the corpse perseveration tasks unmolested.

With all that said, The Mortuary Assistant has the makings of an outstanding horror title. Alas, it also feels like I’m constantly battling against the game itself to enjoy it, thanks to a litany of technical issues that have yet to be sorted.

It goes without saying that the problems I am about to describe are based on my own subjective experiences and that you may well avoid most of them. Indeed, I sincerely hope that’s the case because they can be very disruptive.

I’m rarely able to complete a shift without running afoul of some game-breaking bug. Among other things, contextual interactions have stopped working for me altogether, audio has played at a comically-accelerated rate, and the inventory menu has failed to display.

Meanwhile, I’ve spawned into empty voids on numerous occasions, gotten stuck in perpetual loading screens, ran into T-posing ghosts, had to reset the game when key story events didn’t trigger, suffered multiple hard-crashes and, worst of all, lost all of my progress. That last point has been the ultimate deal breaker for me, as I’ve now how to repeat my first shift at least half a dozen times and cannot bear to go through it again. To his credit, Clarke has been valiantly fighting fires and acting on feedback since launch, with new patches coming out every single day, so hopefully this part of the review quickly becomes obsolete.

As it stands though, I can only talk about the experience I personally had, and it was a very choppy one. Maybe I’m just profoundly unlucky.

Yet it’s worth reiterating that, when the bugs are taken care of, this will a very special game that deserves your attention.

The Mortuary Assistant is available now.

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The Morturary Assistant centres on Rebecca Owens, a recent Mortuary Sciences grad who’s starting an apprenticeship at the River Fields Mortuary. Rebecca is called into work one night to handle some embalmings. However, there’s something different about these bodies. Things are made more interesting when the Mortician calls, saying that those rumors about possession and demonic acts are true, and that you can’t leave.

As a result, you’ll be facing demonic banishments and creepy puzzles, along with detailed mortician tasks that have been researched from real-life morticians. Each playthrough features different demons, bodies, and scares that are custom tailored to your playthrough. You’ll need to balance your tasks at the mortuary with hunting for clues. Brave the dark hallways and pay close attention to details if you wish to walk away with your soul intact.

If you’d like to try before you buy, you can also download the demo for The Mortuary Assistant available from Steam.

And don’t forget to check out our interview with The Mortuary Assistant‘s developer, Brian Clarke aka Darkstone Digital.

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Brian Clarke (aka DarkStone Digital) discovered just how common it is to have this ghoulish fascination with death, when he released his initial prototype for The Mortuary Assistant back in 2020.

Serving as a 10-minute appetiser — for what would later be expanded into a full game— the indie horror had a gripping premise. In it, you played as a funeral director’s newbie apprentice (named Rebecca), who was thrown in at the deep end when her employer bailed on a shift at the very last minute.

You were subsequently left holding the bag on what turned out to be the mortuary’s busiest night ever and had to prepare all the dead bodies yourself. This entailed donning the appropriate attire, mixing the embalming chemicals, and collecting a grisly assortment of tools so that you could make a jugular incision.

Being left alone in that situation is probably scary enough for most people but, this being a horror title, things quickly went from bad to worse. While you were performing your duties, lights would flicker of their own accord, scrawled messages instructed you to kill yourself, eerie whispers could be heard emanating from off-screen, and the cadaver you were meant to be operating on unaccountably disappeared from its gurney.

As a proof of concept, it was a short but sweet experience that culminated with a decent jump scare and an abrupt cut to black (as is tradition for these things). No matter how efficient you were as an undertaker, you could only ever make it about a third of the way down your to-do list before a demon attacked and then it was game over.

However, there was something about this prototype that managed to capture people’s attention, which is why Clarke decided to pursue his macabre idea a little further. Flash forward two years later and he is now on the cusp of launching a finished version of The Mortuary Assistant on Steam.

Published by DreadXP, he hopes that this more fleshed-out take will be able to satiate those who were (perhaps a little too) invested in completing their original shift over at River Fields funeral parlour.

To find out more, Bloody Disgusting spoke to Clarke in an exclusive interview.

One Seriously Messed Up Fun House

“With this full release version, you’ll finally be able to do the whole embalming process from beginning to end. Apparently, that’s what everyone wanted to do the first time around. At least, that’s according to the feedback I got.”

Upon telling us this, Clarke lets out an unnerved chuckle, presumably taken aback by how great an appetite for corpse preservation there is within the gaming community.

Sure enough, those who are keen to hone their embalming technique will have ample opportunity to do so with the Mortuary Assistant’s new build, as you’re no longer merely taking care of a single body. Instead, every playthrough will get you to deal with three (randomly selected) cadavers, each with their own unique backstories and preparation requirements.

During any given shift, you’ll have to get bodies out of cold storage, spot their identifying marks, input findings onto the River Fields computer system, drain fluids, make clinical incisions and even dabble with a bit of cremation.

In other words, you’ll be responsible for all manner of gruesome nastiness. Which wouldn’t be quite so distressing, were it not for the fact that the place is also haunted and you’re being stalked by a malevolent presence throughout.

Delivering his impromptu elevator pitch, Clarke said: “I’ve distilled my idea into one brief sentence: ‘Dead bodies in a funhouse.’ Because that perfectly sums up what I’m going for!

“I thought it was a cool setting that people hadn’t used much before in video games. So, I wanted to do it proper justice and decided to carry out in-depth research into how mortuaries [operate]. I watched tons of instructional videos on YouTube, read countless articles about mortuary sciences and even read some educational documents about how to use the tools.”

Don’t go mistaking the game for an accurate simulator though, as Clarke did take creative liberties in order to make the interactions feel more visceral.

“I ended up going with this weird combination of modern and slightly archaic techniques, picking whatever was creepiest for the scene in question. For example, the specific trocar method that we use in the game is not that prevalent anymore and usually involves a few extra steps, but I felt that the old-fashioned way was much better suited to horror. “I’ve had actual morticians reach out to me after playing the demo, complimenting its authenticity and the level of detail. But they always follow up that praise with something like: ‘We do [embalming] this way’, ‘That’s kind of outdated’ or ‘the trocar process should be a multi-step thing.’

“Which I do appreciate, because I did my due diligence and researched everything. However, I’m just trying to abbreviate the process for the sake of the player and that means omitting certain things and playing up to the horror aspect.”

Thinking Small, Dreaming Big

When describing his ambition for the game, Clarke said: “I knew I wanted two things. I wanted spooky dead bodies and I wanted a claustrophobic setting that gave me a high degree of control over what the player sees. The mortuary scenario happened to meet both of those requirements.”

On that note, one of the first things that might strike you about The Mortuary Assistant is how remarkably condensed it is. The entire thing takes place within the confines of a funeral home and the only respite you get from this suffocating environment is a quick prologue and a few surreal dream sequences.

Of course, the decision to make the game so pared down was an intentional one, given that Clarke already has his work cut out for him as a solo developer. After all, he is responsible for creating the story, writing the complex lore, programming the various systems, and figuring out the artistic design. So, it naturally made sense for him to have a manageable concept.

None of this is to imply that Clarke is an amateur though. Far from it, he has 17 years’ worth of experience in the industry, 13 of which he spent at AAA companies working on MMOs like Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, Rift and Defiance. He even had a stint over at LucasArts, where he served as lead environment artist on a Star Wars project.

As such, it is fair to say that Clarke has got considerable pedigree. Nevertheless, he is still getting used to doing everything on his own.

Since adopting the DarkStone Digital moniker, he has developed a number of solo projects and experimented with a few different genres to refine his craft. He’s done bullet-hell shooters (Outstation), sci-fi puzzle outings (The Subject) and a narrative-driven escape room (Our Secret Below).

Reflecting on how he is steadily finding his groove, Clarke admitted: “The last one was a little better, because it was at a scale that was easier for me to manage on my own, and I could focus on telling a clearer story. That’s why I’m continuing down that same path with The Mortuary Assistant.”

Yet while this latest offering might appear slight in terms of its pure square footage, it’s actually way more ambitious on a technical level. In the developer’s own words, the small environment belies a “whole lot of work that went on under the hood.”

Introducing “The Haunt System”

According to Clarke, most of his considerable time and effort was channeled into refining the game’s unique “Haunt System”, which ensures that every single playthrough is a little different from the last.

He explained: “People tend to equate length with value for money nowadays and it only takes a few hours to ‘complete’ an average run of The Mortuary Assistant. However, there’s a lot more content in the game than first meets the eye.

“I wanted to make something that people could experience over and over again, while still encountering something new each time. That’s why I built the [Haunt] System.”

In terms of how this works, the title is basically broken up into a series of vignettes that, unbeknownst to the player, can be mixed and matched together. There are multiple iterations of the opening, the second act can veer off in a few different directions, the main antagonist can take various sinister forms, and there are five major endings.

Unlike in, say, Until Dawn or The Quarry, these aren’t presented to you as branching paths that you can influence. Rather, there’s an element of potluck going on behind the scenes, with all the important decisions being made by the game itself. Right under your nose.

Clarke elaborated: “The system essentially builds your experience when you first load in, dictating which narrative elements you’re going to see over the course of the night. Someone may get more of Rebecca’s story, whereas another person might get to explore the history of the mortuary instead. Or even a combination of both.

“At the beginning of the shift we determine the key story events, the demonic entity that you’re going to be dealing with, and the bodies you’re going to have to process. But as far as the ending is concerned, that’s very much dependent upon what the player does, the lore documents they’ve found and if they’ve made any grave mistakes.”

Think of it like a prix fixe restaurant menu. The interchangeable dead bodies are your appetisers, the story focus is your entrée, the chosen demon is your dessert course, and The Haunt System is a presumptuous date who insists on ordering for you.

Regardless of what it decides to serve up though, you’ll inevitably end up with a fragmented view of the narrative. It’s impossible to see everything in one go, as each telling of the story is filled with gaps and unanswered questions. So, the only way to get a full picture of everything is to play through it numerous times.

Clarke continued: “The idea is that you do it again to see more and over time gradually ‘collect’ all the missing pieces of the puzzle. The game remembers what you’ve already seen in the previous night and then feeds you something different for your next shift. And this keeps happening until you’ve experienced the entire story.”

The system also decides which scares to feature in your playthrough and where exactly to deploy them for maximum impact. By Clarke’s estimates, there are approximately 100 of these dynamic events in The Mortuary Assistant, ranging from shadowy figures looming in the corner of a room, to naked corpses peering at you through windows, and a freaky creature (dubbed “The Mimic”) perching itself on nearby cabinets.

You might be confronted with all three of these during your first shift, or you might not see any of them. The uncertainty is meant to keep you on edge, as even veteran players won’t be able to tell what’s coming, and there could always be a surprise around the next corner.

“The system checks against things like: which demon has been summoned in the playthrough; how fast you are progressing; where you are in the room; what you have in your inventory, which direction you’re facing, and whether the lights are turned on. If the right criteria is met, then it will fire off the appropriate scare event. If not, it’ll circle back through and find another one.”

Inspired By ‘True Events’ and YouTube Clips

As you’d expect, this randomised approach made it quite difficult for Clarke to script the horror or to perfectly calibrate jump scares. Yet that wasn’t too much of a concern for the developer, as he was instead aiming for a feeling of insidious dread.

“I was inspired by the ambient feel of found footage movies” he explained. “Paranormal Activity was a big one for me [because] it was one of the first [films] that really left me feeling uneasy afterwards. I’m a big fan of that ‘it could happen to you’ style of horror. “I also watch a bunch of creepy shorts on YouTube. There’s a channel called Slapped Ham, that has a whole lot of closed-circuit TV clips, with ghosts being caught on camera and stuff like that. You know, those things where disturbing music plays in the background, while a weird dark figure is peering out from the closet in a home video or whatever.

“As silly as all that is, it really inspired me with the Mortuary Assistant because so much of that stuff is easily relatable to people. They see these home videos where there’s a weird face in the dark or somebody ominously standing outside a window, and they feel like it could happen to them.

“I wanted to capture that feeling in a game. In fact, there’s actually a disclaimer at the very beginning, just for flavor and fun, that says the things that happen here are based on actual events. Which is kind of true. It was inspired by online articles that I read and those weird videos.”

When you get around to playing the game, you will immediately understand what Clarke is talking about. The scares here aren’t loud and in-your-face, but chillingly quiet. For instance, you could be investigating some eldritch markings on the floor, only to look up and see a pale hand outstretched from the darkness, beckoning you to approach.

“Some people have been calling them ‘silent screamers’, but I prefer the term ‘reverse jump scares’. While I don’t explicitly draw your attention to them, I have implemented a detection system so that these events won’t trigger until you’re looking in the right direction.

“I didn’t want to simply wrestle control of the camera away from the player and then startle you with a frightening image. I want you to feel like you’ve noticed the creepy thing by sheer [happenstance]. That way, you’ll constantly be wondering if there’s something else watching you.

“In fact, there have been numerous occasions where YouTubers and Streamers have got in touch with me to say that they were editing their gameplay footage, and noticed a demon in the background that they didn’t see before. I love that. I think it’s really eerie.

“Even if it means that the average player will miss about 70% of those more hidden scares, I still think it’s worth it for the people who do spot them.”

You’ll be able to scour for these unsettling images yourself when The Mortuary Assistant launches on August 2. Reflecting on the encroaching release date, Clarke said: “It’s never going to seem ready to me. I’ve been working on this thing for two years now and there’s so much that I feel like I could add to it. I could put in new haunting events, do some extra fine-tuning, or give it a little more polish […] It can be tough to feel like it’s done, but I know that eventually it does have to come out.”

That being said, he won’t necessarily be finished with the project once it unlocks on Steam. On the contrary, Clarke told us that he has plans to port the game to Xbox and PlayStation in the future and that he is hoping to send it to a localisation house, so that it can be enjoyed in languages other than English. Most enticingly, he also mentioned that regular updates (particularly around Halloween) could be on the card to give it a little more longevity.

If that’s the case, then those embalming fanatics that have been waiting around since 2020 will have a lot to look forward to.

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The upcoming first-person horror title puts you in the shoes of Rebecca Owens, a recent Mortuary Sciences grad who’s starting an apprenticeship at the spooky River Fields Mortuary. As these things go, late one night, you are called into work to handle some embalmings. But there’s something different about these bodies, because there is something different about you. The phone rings with the Mortician on the other end. It seems that those rumors about possession and demonic acts are true, and you can’t leave.

As a result, in The Mortuary Assistant, you’ll be facing demonic banishments, creepy puzzles, detailed mortician tasks, and multiple endings. Each playthrough of The Mortuary Assistant features different demons, bodies, and scares that are custom tailored to your playthrough. You’ll need to balance your tasks at the mortuary with hunting for clues. Brave the dark hallways and pay close attention to details if you wish to walk away with your soul intact.

The scary bits don’t just end with the demons. As a mortuary assistant, you have duties to perform. Namely, making incisions on the dead, pumping their remaining blood out, retrieving them from the cold storage, and conducting embalmings. It just so happens that things get difficult once your cadavers start wandering around…

If you’re eager to check out the game before you buy it, The Mortuary Assistant has a demo available now.

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No reason was given for the delay, but it’s probably safe to assume that the two-week bump is mainly for last-minute polish for some of the games in the collection.

If you’re new to the concept of the Dread X Collection series, the whole thing started back in 2020, with indie devs getting together to create short horror games around a common theme. For this fifth iteration, the collection consists of “12 delightfully twisted short-form nightmares” that center around the theme of “entertainment”.

Dread X Collection 5 will bring players to “terrifying locales like haunted nightclubs, dark carnivals, haunted puppet shows, the country Finland in the year 1888, a karaoke bar toilet, and so much more!” Each game in the collection has its unique take on what truly makes a great horror experience.

You can check out the first batch of games in the collection here, and the other half here. And of course, you can do the wishlisting thing on Steam.

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As we’ve mentioned before, the collection consists of “12 delightfully twisted short-form nightmares” from the creators of such indie hits as 0°N 0°W, Lakeview Cabin, Sylvio, and The Mortuary Assistant.

Upon release, Dread X Collection 5 “transports players to terrifying locales like haunted nightclubs, dark carnivals, haunted puppet shows, the country Finland in the year 1888, a karaoke bar toilet, and so much more!” Each game in the collection has its unique take on what truly makes a great horror experience.

Also, if you’re keen on seeing what else DreadXP has in store, be sure to hit up PAX East later this month, as the dev will have new demos for several of their upcoming titles, including The Mortuary Assistant and Dread Delusion.

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The publisher will also have new merchandise based on their most popular titles at the booth, as well as enter giveaways.

“Almost two years after the release of our very first game, DreadXP will soon celebrate its growth as a games publisher by making its debut at PAX East 2022,” said Ted Hentschke, Head of Productions at DreadXP. “We’re all extremely excited to exhibit at the show for the first time and offer hands-on demos to attendees. And while we’ll never truly leave behind the grungy, dark dwelling where the company’s humble beginnings originated from, we’re excited to see DreadXP enter the big leagues and spread our “positively spooky” brand of games to more fans. We’re only just getting started as well.”

As mentioned, Dread Delusion, My Friendly Neighborhood, The Mortuary Assistant, and SPOOKWARE Multiplayer will all have new demos on hand for players to try. Along with those four titles, Sucker for Love: First Date (which was released this past January with Neil enjoying the game) will also be available for players to try their luck in dating Eldritch horrors.

Dread Delusion is an upcoming open world RPG with a retro-aesthetic. Players will carve their path through flying continents of a shattered land. Discover curious towns, unearth occult secrets, master powerful magic, and change the world through your choices.

My Friendly Neighborhood will put players into the work-boots of Gordon, a repairman tasked with shutting down the sudden broadcast of a cancelled children’s’ TV show called ‘The Friendly Neighborhood’.

The Mortuary Assistant sees you having completed your degree in mortuary sciences, and taking on an apprenticeship at River Fields Mortuary. You have heard rumors of families believing that their deceased loved ones in your care were possessed or otherwise entangled with the paranormal. Late one night, you are called into work to handle some embalmings. The phone rings with the Mortician on the other end. The rumors are true, and you can not leave.

SPOOKWARE Multiplayer is an all-new multiplayer mode is coming to SPOOKWARE (which we reviewed here), DreadXP’s fast-paced microgame collection inspired by classic horror icons.

Attendees can find DreadXP on the PAX East show floor at Booth #20079, in the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center, from April 21 – April 24, 2022 during Expo Hall hours (10:00 AM – 6:00 PM ET). 

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