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Run — Monstrum Has Taken Physical Form In Our World

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It happened about a month later than originally planned, but there is finally a physical edition of SOEDESCO’s survival horror game Monstrum. This is not a limited-time release that you have to purchase right away, but the game is critically praised enough that you might want to.

The premise of Monstrum is that you’re stuck on a cargo ship, along with one other passenger…a bloodthirsty monster! Imagine an enemy as unstoppable as Nemesis, as cunning as the Xenomorph from Alien Isolation, and as lethal as a Master Tonberry (hey, they’re just as scary). That’s the creature you’re dealing with in Monstrum…it pursues you relentlessly, and you can’t kill it. You can only slow it down and get it off your trail for a while.

Worse yet, if the monster gets you, that’s it. It’s permadeath — you have to start the whole game over. And the fact that the layout of the ship is different every time means it won’t be any easier on the second go! Even the monster is randomized — you won’t know what to truly expect from it, only that it has to be avoided.

● Survive a changing environment and monster with each new game
● Use whatever you can find to outwit the monsters and escape the ship
● Hide, distract, and run, but be careful not to fall into the numerous traps
● Death is permanent. Try to stay alive or you’ll have to start all over again

Monstrum was published digitally on Playstation 4, Nintendo Switch and XBox One last May.

Fans created a 3rd person mod for Resident evil 7! You can finally see Ethan!!

Fans created a 3rd person mod for Resident evil 7! You can finally see Ethan!!

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If you ask most hardcore Resident evil fans, what is their least favorite game? Most of the time, they will Answer Resident evil 6! because it doesn’t feel like a Resident Evil game. Capcom themselves admitted the game is action-packed instead of Survival horror because they want to get the Call of Duty fanbase. The game sold well, but it got critically destroyed by critics and fans alike. This result leads to the creation of Resident Evil 7. Mainstays like Chris Redfield, Jill Valentine, Claire Redfield, Leon Kennedy, and Ada Wong are just way too experienced and capable. They are too badass to make you feel fear.

So in Resident Evil 7, the veterans are set aside for a Newcomer Ethan Winters. He is a regular guy who is looking for his missing wife, Mia. The game took inspiration from the P.T, the demo of the canceled Silent hill title, and the rest is history. Zombies got replaced by the Molded, Fungus infected human controlled by a bioweapon in the guise of a Little girl named Evie. The game also made you encounter the Baker family. A Louisianian redneck family who use to be good people but turned into abominations with heel factors.

Most people loved Resident Evil 7, but most of them are casuals who never played the past titles. For one reason! This game uses a first-person camera!

Ethan has a full character model with a face. That model got only used for cutscenes. We never get to see his face unless you extract the character models of the game.

Ethan's character model

Capcom decided to hide Ethan’s Handsome face because they want the player to self-insert themselves into the game and think they are Ethan. This decision made Ethan unrelatable for some fans compared to someone like Claire or Leon. The game is also in the first person because the creators want you to feel immersed in the atmosphere to feel more scared.

Some fans also don’t like the first-person camera because it gives them motion sickness.

Re7 and both Resident evil 2/3 remakes use the RE engine. That makes it possible to turn the game into an over the shoulder 3rd person shooter.

There was an attempt before to make a mod to turn the game 3rd person but Ethan’s character model have no head. This headless Ethan mod was 3 years ago.

Now you can enjoy Resident evil 7 in over the shoulders 3rd person camera because someone made a mod

It is still not fully complete because there will be segments where you will not play as Ethan. There will be moments where you will play as other characters and those characters don’t have full playable models yet. There is also the DLC starring Chris Redfield and it was not yet modded yet.

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Transient Arrives On Steam October 28

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Publisher Iceberg Interactive and developer Stormling Studios have announced that Transient, their 3D first-person horror adventure game, will be available on Steam starting October 28th.

It’s the apocalypse, a setting video game players should be very very familiar with by now. You are Randolph Carter, member of the notorious hacker-for-hire group ODIN. The surviving humans have all taken refuge in Domed City Providence, a protected and fortified community…but through his activities, Randolph has discovered something terrifying. This place might not be as safe as everyone thinks….

· H.P. Lovecraft meets Cyberpunk. Delve deep into an obscure dystopian world and hold firm to your consciousness while you explore enigmatic networks where change is permanent but reality is only temporary.
· To find out what is going on, traverse between real and artificially created worlds
· Ominous but lush graphics created with Unreal Engine 4
· Secrets and easter eggs
· A haunting and atmospheric soundtrack.

The new gameplay trailer from Stormling is posted below. Transient will be released for PC on October 28.

In a distant, post-apocalyptic future, what remains of the population of mankind lives in an enclosed citadel called Domed City Providence, created to survive the harsh outside environment. In this, mankind’s final refuge, Randolph Carter, a member of a notorious hacker-for-hire group called ODIN, accidentally stumbles across the terrifying truth, a truth that might tear apart his own sanity and lead him to question his very existence.

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Blind Comes To DVD And Digital November 11

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Watch out — Uncork’d Entertainment is releasing the slasher thriller Blind on DVD and VOD formats next month.

Faye is a former actress who lives in a glamorous mansion — if only she could see it. Her big roles stopped coming in when botched laser surgery caused her to lose her sight. Ever since then she’s lived a secluded life with her only companion being her personal trainer. And THAT guy doesn’t have the ability to speak, so it’s complicated.

One day a delivery man comes to her door with a package, and immediately freaks out when he recognizes Faye. He’s so starstruck he won’t leave her alone. He goes far enough to take pictures of her through the picture window — right before he’s strangled from behind by the ACTUAL killer of this movie (weird that they put this twist in the trailer, but there it is).

Faye is actually being stalked by Pretty Boy, a killer who wears a mask and outfit that makes him look like an 80s Ken doll. And Pretty Boy didn’t appreciate the competition! What will Faye do about Pretty Boy if she can’t even see him coming?

Blind stars Sarah French (Art of the Dead), Jed Rowen (Halloween Pussy Trap Kill! Kill!), Tyler Gallant (#FollowMe), Ben Kaplan (“Alex and the Single Girls”), Caroline Williams (Ten Minutes to Midnight, Texas Chain Saw Massacre Part 2), Thomas Haley (Lilith), Sheri Davis (Hair of the Dog), Jessica Galetti (Crazy Rich Asians), Michael St. Michaels (Freshwater), and Kevin Cooper. It was directed by Marcel Walz, and it’ll arrive on DVD and digital November 11.

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They Reach Reaches Toward DVD And Digital November 3

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Uncork’d Entertainment is preparing the spooky tale They Reach for a post-Halloween release in early November.

It’s the late 70s, and a young science geek stumbles upon an old reel-to-reel tape player (in a location neither the description nor the trailer specify). We don’t know where she got it, but the first time she turns it on, it plays monster growls — and bleeds! She probably shouldn’t touch the Play button ever again, but she and her friends can’t resist.

Now the demonic creature brought forth by the tape player is skukling around her small-town community, looking for souls to devour. The beast is quite messy about it too, making large CRUNCH noises every time it takes a victim. It may be easy to find, but how will they defeat it?

They Reach stars Mary Madaline Roe, Morgan Chandler, Eden Campbell, Kyan Zielinski, Elizabeth Rhoades, Ash Calder, Frederick Floyd, Kara Puerschner, and Adrienne Jordan. It was written and directed by Sylas Dall, and it’ll creep onto DVD and VOD formats November 3.

It’s 1979, and a 13-year-old science nerd stumbles upon a possessed tape player and accidentally unleashes a demonic entity. She recruits her two best friends to fight the beast before it devours more souls in the small town of Clarkston. Mary Madaline Roe, Morgan Chandler, Eden Campbell, Kyan Zielinski, Elizabeth Rhoades, Ash Calder, Frederick Floyd, Kara Puerschner, and Adrienne Jordan star in a Sylas Dall film.

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Playhouse Arrives On Digital November 17

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After a screening at London’s Frightfest last August, North American distributor Devilworks has picked up the supernatural horror film Playhouse for distribution. It’ll be arriving on VOD formats next month.

A famous horror writer is looking for inspiration to craft his new play. But there doesn’t seem to be much of that around, so he moves into an ancient abandoned castle and drags along his teenage daughter. Sucks to be her. He finds the inspiration he was looking for, or rather, it finds them. If they can escape the horror they wandered into, the writer should have plenty to draw on for his play. Next time, though, may I suggest renting a scary movie?

Playhouse stars William Holstead (Shudder Original ‘Christmas Presence’) Grace Courtney, James Rottger (BBCs ‘The Break’) and Helen Mackay (BBC’s ‘The Miracle Maker’). It was produced and directed by brothers Fionn and Toby Watts, and it’s coming to digital platforms November 17.

As Frightfest comes to a close, World sales agent and North American distributor Devilworks has picked up Supernatural chiller entry Playhouse for North America and Canada. The film centres around a notorious horror writer, who moves into an ancient castle with his teenage daughter, to work on his next play; only to face terrifying consequences when his daughter falls prey to a Supernatural evil lurking within the castle walls.

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TinyBuild’s Holiday 2020 Release Schedule

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Seattle-based indie games publisher tinyBuild has a lot planned for this holiday season, and it starts later this month with the release of two games back-to-back. There’ll be new DLC for some of their games, while other games will be making their debuts on new hardware, such as….

HELLO PUPPETS! This VR-based spinoff from the developers of Hello Neighbor has you facing off in the dark against a nightmare of evil dolls. You’ll be able to play it on Steam VR October 22, with releases on HTC Vive and Valve Index coming soon.

Happy’s Humble Burger Farm is an extended and polished version of a free itch,io game called Happy’s Humble Burger Barn. A jumpscare-fest not unlike the previous game, it enters Steam Early Access October 29.

How about some frights of a different kind…like trying to manage a startup company? The business sim Startup Panic will launch December 3 on iOS, Android and the Epic Games Store. For those who want to dip their toes in management, it’s cheaper than a real start-up, and preorders are open today.

In news that has no trailer…tinyBuild’s Graveyard Keeper will be getting some new DLC this Halloween, which adds an estimated twelve hours of gameplay and a few new mysteries. A Halloween-themed alpha build of Hello Neighbor 2 will be made available for free on the official website for the game (www.helloneighbor2.com). And finally, tinyBuild says they have “big news” ahead for their upcoming project Cartel Tycoon. They’ll reveal what that means October 29.

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KOKO-DI KOKO-DA Opening In The US After Delay

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The bizarre and trippy Swedish horror flick KOKO-DI KOKO-DA was meant to open in selected theaters late last March, but instead it became one of the first foreign horror films to be displaced by the pandemic. It’s been a few months since then, but the film has at last been rescheduled, and will have a virtual theater release.

Elin, Tobias and their daughter like to go out camping every summer. Or rather, they did until…the incident. The child vanished during their last trip, never to be seen again…and weirdly, it had something to do with a man in a strawboater hat singing “Koko-Di, Koko-Da.” Also, possibly, a dead pig was involved.

Three years later, the grief-stricken Elin and Tobias work up the nerve to go camping again, just like they used to. And….not only are they back at the same campsite, their daughter is alive and well. They’re now caught in a time loop along with her, and the circumstances are so bizarre that any way out is lost on them.

KOKO-DI KOKO-DA stars Peter Belli, Leif Edlund, Ylva Gallon, Katarina Jackobson, and Brandy Litmanen. It was directed by Johannes Nyholm (THE GIANT), and it will open November 6 in virtual theaters in Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Cleveland and other major cities. If you’d rather see it on VOD, it’ll premiere there a month later on December 8.

Elin and Tobias are a happily married couple who regularly vacation with their young daughter. The family is on a dreamy holiday when an innocuous case of food poisoning derails their plans and forever alters the course of their lives. Three years later, the once loving couple is on the road again to go camping, looking for one last chance to go back to the way things used to be. But what once was is lost, and our characters instead find themselves having to relive the same nightmarish events, as that day and the horrors it brings repeat themselves infinitely. Together, they must overcome their trauma, reconcile with their past and fight for their lives. Over, and over, and over again.

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Welcome To The Circle Heads To Digital And Disc October 27

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It was nearly a year ago that we first heard about Welcome To The Circle, a Canadian horror film that was originally announced for US distribution through Devilworks. Something must have fallen through, because the film did not see Stateside release in 2019 and it’s now under the arm of Artsploitation Films.

This tale begins the way a lot of these begin: two innocent people wandering deep into the secluded woods where nobody will find them. There, they run into a cult who seeks to brainwash the young girl and turn her into one of them. Now trapped in the compound, it won’t be as easy to get out as it was to get in.

Welcome to the Circle stars Heather Doerksen (Pacific Rim), Matthew MacCaull (Tomorrowland, Star Trek Beyond) and Taylor Dianne Robinson (Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn). It was written and directed by David Fowler (writer of ‘Born in China and Penguins documentaries).

Devilworks was not able to provide a release date, but Artsploitation will follow through: we’re finally getting Welcome To The Circle on October 27, in all the formats: DVD, Blu-Ray and VOD.

A camping misadventure forces a young girl and her father into the realm of a madman worshiping cult known as The Circle. As the pair become trapped in The Circle’s increasingly frightening sphere of indoctrination, a case-hardened professional cult deprogrammer and his two clients attempt to kidnap/reclaim one of group’s members. Grizzly rituals are soon revealed to be part of a terrifying, surreal, alternate reality that has been constructed by the cult’s mysterious, isolated leader. Escape is the only objective, but all of them are trapped in The Circle.

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The Devil To Pay Opening In Selected Theaters

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Uncork’d Entertainment and Dark Star Pictures are releasing their latest thriller, The Devil To Pay, in selected theaters (drive-in and virtual) starting October 9.

Lemon is a poor farmer making a scant living in an isolated Appalachian community. Her family owes a debt to a neighbor, and they’ve decided to collect a little sooner than usual — by threatening everyone’s life. They’ve already taken her husband, and she and her son could be next unless they can fight back.

The Devil To Pay stars Danielle Deadwyler, Catherine Dyer, Jayson Warner Smith, Brad Carter, Luce Rains, Adam Boyer, Charles Black, Parisa Johnston, Tim Habeger, and Ezra Haslam. It was directed by Ruckus Skye and Lane Skye, and it will open in theaters two days from now, October 9. The movie is already available to watch on demand, released yesterday on VOD platforms.

After the disappearance of her husband, Lemon, a struggling farmer in an isolated Appalachian community, must repay her husband’s debt to the oldest family on the mountain and their murderous biscuit-making matriarch in order to save her young son’s life. Armed with only her wits and tenacity, Lemon must unravel the mysteries her husband left behind or lose everything she’s ever loved.

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Yikes, The New Trailer For The Witches Is Here

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It’s one of the most terrifying, traumatic children’s movies of all time, and soon there will be two versions of it. A remake of The Witches has been in production for some time and will be scaring a new generation on HBO Max this Halloween.

The simple premise is that witches are everywhere, they hate children and actively work to destroy them through sadistic means, usually involving cruel spells that doom them. Our unfortunate main character has the bad luck of running into a witch convention, and wanders away as a mouse. He must now somehow stop the witches from fulfilling their anti-kid eradication plan while trapped in his rodent form.

Most adaptions of Roald Dahl novels tend to soften some of his more extreme edges, a fact that annoyed him to no end. The 1990 Witches is the only Dahl movie to date that sticks to the merciless tone of the original, except for a tacked-on ending where the mouse is turned back into a boy by a “good witch” out of nowhere. The only improvement Zemeckis could really add to the original would be to use the bittersweet book ending…guess we’ll see if he does.

We do know that Anne Hathaway, the new Grand High Witch, will have to work very hard to top the scene-stealing Anjelica Houston in the same role. The Witches was also the final movie to feature the work of Jim Henson for its effects. You don’t top Henson, you can only try to measure up.

Beware….The Witches are out there, and they’re coming back on HBO Max October 22.

Noise In The Middle To Be Heard This Fall

Noise In The Middle To Be Heard This Fall

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Terror Films has announced the arrival of their latest thriller, Noise In The Middle, to be released later this month exclusively on the premium AVOD horror channel Kings of Horror.

When this one starts, its central characters Richard and Emmie are already pretty bad off…the mother of the family, Sara, has just died, and Emmie is severely autistic and can’t really verbalize her grief. Fortunately, one of the last things Sara did before passing was arrange for Emmie to receive an experimental treatment. UNfortunately, the house where that treatment is being conducted happens to be haunted.

The paranormal activity in the house disturbs Emmie so much that her own latent psychic powers become active (guess what, she can do that) and who should appear before them but…Sara. Is it really Sara’s ghost, though, or something evil pretending to be her? Given their run of luck lately, we’d place our bets on “evil impersonator.”

Noise In The Middle stars John Mese (Night of the Scarecrow), Tara Buck (True Blood), Tom Konkle (Hornet), Juliette Jeffers (Lemon), Jim Holmes (How to Be a Vampire) and features Faye Hostetter as Emmie. It was written by Marcus McCollum and Glen Kannon, and produced by McCollum and Mark Conley.

Look for Noise In The Middle on Kings of Horror starting Thursday, October 29, It’ll remain there for six weeks until it becomes widely available on digital platforms starting December 11.

After the sudden death of his wife Sara, Richard, a grieving and emotionally ill-equipped father, is left on his own to care for his severely, non-verbal autistic daughter Emmie. Before her death Sara had arranged for Emmy to partake in an experimental therapy and rented a house near the facility where the treatments would take place. Little does Richard know the house has a haunted history. As the spirits in the house grow restless,  so does the noise in Emmie’s head, awakening her psychic abilities along with Richard’s personal demons. When visions of his dead wife begin to appear, Richard is convinced she has returned to help him. But is the spirit really his wife or something more sinister sent to take them both?

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