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Trapped in another house Vertical Reach and publisher Armor Games Studios have announced that their puzzle-focused retro horror title, The Tartarus Key, is chambered for a May 31, 2023 release. Putting you in the shoes of the hapless Alex Young, The Tartarus Key takes place in a bizarre mansion where doors are locked with all manner of puzzles. Lifting the aesthetics of the PS1, it promises a horror experience without the use of jump-scares. That’s a fairly common goal for horror games. Hopefully, they can pull off the…

If you thought “fake news” was a problem during the 2016 and 2020 elections, get ready. You haven’t seen anything yet, thanks to the generative AI era that we’re in now and the Wild West of content creation looming on the horizon as ChatGPT and other burgeoning alteranatives quickly render obsolete an already half-dead old maxim. You know, the one about how “seeing is believing.” For now, we’re still in the early days wherein much of the news coverage of what generative AI is now capable of is still focused on…

This pick and mix of short horror films by different directors is a decidedly mixed bag, with a couple of flavoursome, sugar-rush-inducing treats – but many more stale, unchewable duds. The framing device, directed by Carlos Goitia, has DJ Candy (Paula Brasca, offering a reasonable anchoring performance while really rocking a dark lipstick) on the night shift, taking calls from listeners recounting their own scary stories. In between these mini chapters, resourceful Candy copes with a creepy caller named Jack (as in Jack…

Image via StudioCanal No matter how much the horror movies of today have diverted from the quintessential tropes of the past by altering the manner of addressing disturbing themes, jump scares will always reign as a fear-inducing element of the genre. After all, who wouldn’t steer their eyes away from the screen with utter rapidity when larger-than-iconic villains such as Ghostface, Leatherface, or Michael Myers emerge from the darkest corners of the room to mete out the most gruesome death to their victims?…

Image via F/M Entertainment Acknowledging the horror-Western genre marriage is sort of like eating a kiwi fruit with the skin on it. It feels funny on the tongue at first, but makes a lot of sense if you really think about it. Indeed, for a genre that builds so many of its tensions on isolation and malice, where better to exercise such devices than the relatively barren, unforgiving lands of the Old American West? For a fair shake of filmmakers, the answer was “absolutely nowhere else,” and they’ve gone on to…

via Lucasfilm Some toys shouldn’t be made. But unfortunately, someone from Lucasarts saw this one Star Wars merchandise and thought “this won’t scare children.” Sadly, one of these toys was found, years after its initial release, and has unleashed enough nightmare fuel to scar the internet of their search for nostalgia. Reddit user u/BryanwithaYnotanI shared a couple of images on r/StarWars, which featured Jar Jar Binks toy. And if hearing the words “a Jar Jar toy” isn’t horrifying enough, wait till you see what…

My beloved monster and me Meg’s Monster, a narrative-focused JRPG with art inspired by Mother 3, has launched today. Meg’s Monster is developed by Odencat Inc., who has previously graced us with Bear’s Restaurant and Fishing Paradiso. You play as Roy, the eponymous monster. He’s an indestructible pile of beef, but the real challenge comes from protecting the also eponymous Meg. She has a tendency to throw tantrums of apocalyptic proportions, so it’s in everybody’s best interest that she does not get hurt. There’s an…

Courtesy of Netflix © 2022. Netflix knows its target audience, and while we might be months away from the “official” start of the spooky season, it is giving us ghosts and haunts galore with a new film that’s already toping the charts: We Have A Ghost. Starring Anthony Mackie, David Harbour, Jennifer Coolidge, and Jahi Di’Allo Winston, the movie has a feel-good element while navigating a spooky adventure. The idea of having a ghostly pal inhabit your house sounds frightening, right? Of course, it does, but what…

Best known for his acclaimed creator-owned series Harrow County, writer Cullen Bunn has made a name for himself in the horror genre. So it won’t come as a surprise that Bunn is teaming up with Basketful of Heads artist Leomacs and colorist Jason Wordie for a spooky series called Ghostlore from BOOM! Studios. Along with the core art team of Leomacs and Wordie, each issue will feature short stories by guest artists, beginning with Brian Hurtt, who previously collaborated with Bunn on Manor Black. Here’s how the publisher…

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