Videos
Horror Filmmaker Mike Mendez Made a Hilarious Short Film Starring… a Guillermo del Toro Toy! [Video]
While he’s quarantined at home, filmmaker Mike Mendez (The Convent, Big Ass Spider!, Don’t Kill It) has been making fun little short films over on Instagram, the latest of which he shared via Instagram Stories this week. And he’s now uploaded it to YouTube for all to see.
Titled “There Can Be Only One,” Mendez’s latest short “chronicles a bizarre incident where a strange man was stealing my cookies.” And that man happens to be, well, an action figure.
A Guillermo del Toro action figure, to be specific.
Mendez wrote over on Twitter today, “Using this time to make movies has been a wonderful distraction that I’d recommend to anyone.”
Running 8-minutes long, “There Can Be Only One” sees the various toys in Mendez’s collection coming to life to spice up his quarantine, and we think you’re gonna have a blast with it.
Be sure to follow Mike Mendez on Twitter and Instagram for more time-passing hijinks!
Video Games
Bloody Body Horror Revealed in ‘Stellar Blade: Blood Rain’, Currently in Development [Trailer]
Shift Up has shifted things dramatically from 2024’s action-adventure game Stellar Blade, offering up a body horror bonanza in the newly announced sequel, Stellar Blade: Blood Rain. The sequel is currently early in development, but if the trailer is any indication, players will be in for plenty of body horror.
Continuing the story from the original Stellar Blade, Blood Rain will star a new protagonist named Eve. Earth has been abandoned, and what is left of humanity has fled to a Colony in outer space.
Shift Up had mentioned during a Q&A following its latest earnings presentation last month that development on Blood Rain (which was still unannounced at the time) was progressing smoothly, and was on track to meet their targeted quality standards.
Shift Up stated that with this new title it would be transitioning to a first-party service model, effectively moving away from the restrictions the game experienced with original publisher Sony, which had the game under an exclusivity agreement for the PlayStation 5. “This will allow us to lead marketing strategies that fully reflect the distinctive identity of the Stellar Blade IP, and we expect to communicate the unique appeal of its universe to players more directly and effectively.”
Whether this means that Xbox Players will finally be able to play the original game (or its sequel) is still not clear. Meanwhile, Stellar Blade is reportedly being ported to the Nintendo Switch 2, but no official confirmation has been made.