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[Video] We Uncovered Some of “Friday the 13th: The Game’s” Biggest Secrets!
It’s been a somewhat rocky weekend for “Friday the 13th: The Game” as horror fans came out in droves to support Gun Media and Illfonic Games’ newest creation. Thankfully though, the servers seem to be holding up, and I was actually able to get some solid game time in over the weekend with some friends.
Right out of the gate, I have to say that I love this game. Sure, it could use a little work in the facial animation department and I don’t think anyone would complain if the car keys spawned a little more often. But at the end of the day, the core gameplay loop is extremely solid, and with a number of copies Gun looks to have sold, they definitely have a solid platform to build on.
I think the main reason I like this game so much though is that it’s a passion project in the truest sense of the word. These guys adore “Friday the 13th” and it shows. There are more secrets and references to the film franchise than I think any one person could find on their own. I’ve encountered a ton so far so I thought it would be cool if I rounded them up in a video for other horror fans to check out.
My personal favorite is the inclusion of the famous decapitation from “Friday the 13th: Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan” (RIP Julius). If you found some secrets of your own that I didn’t cover, make sure you fill me in!
All of us here at Bloody Disgusting are deeply saddened to learn that George A. Romero Foundation Founder and President Suzanne Desrocher-Romero has passed away.
GARF shared in a statement on socials, “It is with a heavy heart that we announce the passing of Suzanne Desrocher Romero. Suzanne passed away of natural causes on June 24 at her home in Toronto after a prolonged illness.”
The statement continues, “Suzanne was the fierce leader of the George A. Romero Estate and The George A. Romero Foundation. She worked tirelessly to preserve George’s legacy. Her work at the foundation will continue to inspire and live on for generations to come. The family asks for privacy at this time.”
Desrocher-Romero founded GARF in 2018, after her late husband’s passing in 2017, and has been a fierce advocate for his legacy and the arts. It was her mission to “strengthen horror as a serious field of global study,” and she was a tremendous fighter on behalf of Romero’s works and supporting new filmmakers inspired by his legacy.
It was Desrocher-Romero who spearheaded the recovery and restoration of The Amusement Park, and, as the person in charge of the George A. Romero estate, worked closely with author Daniel Kraus on completing unfinished novels like Pay the Piper and The Living Dead. She most recently celebrated the restoration of her favorite of Romero’s zombie films, Day of the Dead, and was hard at work producing the upcoming film Twilight of the Dead.
That passionate advocacy led to Suzanne Desrocher-Romero becoming family to Bloody Disgusting as well.
2023 marked the start of an ongoing partnership between Bloody FM and GARF on The Dead, a scripted audio series spanning multiple seasons that saw Desrocher-Romero working closely with the Bloody FM team and mentoring the series’s contributing writers with GARF. To say her loss will be felt internally is an understatement.
“Anytime George Romero is mentioned is good, because what we are doing is to provide a healthy legacy. We’re uplifting his legacy, we’re supporting the archive, and we’re also supporting the Horror Study Center. So, all of these three things are what the Foundation is striving to do. As far as I’m concerned, the more we say George Romero’s name, the better it is,” Desrocher-Romero recently told BD.
It’s the perfect encapsulation of her unwavering enthusiasm for supporting Romero’s legacy and the horror genre, and just a glimpse at how much she contributed to preserving it. She is, in short, an inspiration.
We send our deepest condolences to Suzanne Desrocher-Romero’s family, friends, and GARF.
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