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Game Review: ‘Silver Chains’ is Immersive, Creepy First-Person Horror

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“Madness is out to get you” says the trailer forĀ Silver Chains, a new first-person horror game from game developers at Cracked Head Games and published by Headup available on PC from Steam today, and honestly they aren’t wrong.

As the game opens, a man named Peter has just run his car into a tree. As he stumbles from the wreckage, he sees an old house nearby. It looks abandoned save for one light glowing in a window upstairs. Hurt and alone, he begins to walk to the house in hopes of finding help.

Peter collapses unconscious at the back of the house, but wakes to find himself inside, and that’s where his real nightmare begins.

On the surface,Ā Silver Chains is your basic solve the mystery of the haunted house type game. Your objective is to explore the three floors of the house, piecing together the story of its former inhabitants and how you, as Peter, fit into its history.

Along the way are a host of puzzles to solve, rooms to explore, and I cannot express to you enough how important it is to pay attention to every detail you see because even the most minute detail can be important later in the game.

Then there are the ghosts themselves. Yes, this house is haunted by more than its history.

Most of the spirits you will come in contact with while playingĀ Silver Chains are harmless enough. They appear just long enough to scare the hell out of you before disappearing in a cloud of dark smoke.

Others, however, are vicious and they can and will kill you unless you can successfully hide in time to avoid their detection. Quick decisions are key in these situations so give yourself a break if you die a couple of times, but be prepared. The auto-save points in the game are spaced out in places so you might find yourself “solving” portions of puzzles you’ve already completed in order to get back to where you left off.

As in any good haunted house game, film, or story, the environment itself is its own character and the house inĀ Silver Chains is no different. Each of its three floors is beautifully rendered and textured, and filled with paintings, photographs and sculptures.

The lighting is gorgeous, though you might have to play with your brightness settings a couple of times to get them set exactly the way you need them.

Likewise, the score for the game is lush and atmospheric adding an essential layer of suspense to Peter’s investigation of the house.

Silver Chains is a relatively short game–you can easily play through it in a few hours–but it is filled with challenging puzzles, genuinely scary moments, and an intricate and sad story that will keep you on the edge of your seat from the moment Peter wakes up inside the haunted mansion.

Check out the trailer below, and downloadĀ Silver Chains from Steam today!

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’28 Years Later’ Trilogy Taking Shape With Serious Star Power

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Danny Boyle is revisiting his 28 Days Later universe with three new films. He will direct the first, 28 Years Later, with two more to follow. Deadline is reporting that sources say Jodie Comer,Ā Aaron Taylor-Johnson,Ā andĀ Ralph Fiennes have been cast for the first entry, a sequel to the original. Details are being kept under wraps so we don’t know how or if the first original sequel 28 Weeks Later fits into the project.

Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Ralph Fiennes

Boyle will direct the first movie but it’s unclear which role he will take on in the subsequent films. What is known is Candyman (2021) director Nia DaCosta is scheduled to direct the second film in this trilogy and that the third will be filmed immediately afterward. Whether DaCosta will direct both is still unclear.

Alex Garland is writing the scripts. Garland is having a successful time at the box office right now. He wrote and directed the current action/thriller Civil War which was just knocked out of the theatrical top spot by Radio Silence’s Abigail.

There is no word yet on when, or where, 28 Years Later will start production.

28 Days Later

The original film followed Jim (Cillian Murphy) who wakes from a coma to find that London is currently dealing with a zombie outbreak.

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Watch ‘The Burning’ At The Location Where It Was Filmed

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Fangoria is reporting that fans of the 1981 slasher The Burning will be able to have a screening of the film at the location where it was filmed. The movie is set at Camp Blackfoot which is actually the Stonehaven Nature Preserve in Ransomville, New York.

This ticketed event will take place on August 3. Guests will be able to take a tour of the grounds as well as enjoy some campfire snacks along with the screening of The Burning.

The Burning

The film came out in the early ’80s when teen slashers were being churned out in magnum force. Thanks to Sean S. Cunningham’s Friday the 13th, filmmakers wanted to get in on the low-budget, high-profit movie market and a casket load of these types of films were produced, some better than others.

The Burning is one of the good ones, mostly because of the special effects from Tom Savini who had just come off of his groundbreaking work on Dawn of the Dead and Friday the 13th. He declined to do the sequel because of its illogical premise and instead signed on to do this movie. Also, a young Jason Alexander who would later go on to play George in Seinfeld is a featured player.

Because of its practical gore, The Burning had to be heavily edited before it received an R-rating. The MPAA was under the thumb of protest groups and political bigwigs to censor violent films at the time because slashers were just so graphic and detailed in their gore.

Tickets are $50, and if you want a special t-shirt, that will cost you another $25, You can get all the information by visiting the On Set Cinema webpage.

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‘Longlegs’ Creepy “Part 2” Teaser Appears on Instagram

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Neon Films released an Insta-teaser for their horror film Longlegs today. Titled Dirty: Part 2, the clip only furthers the mystery of what we are in for when this movie is finally released on July 12.

The official logline is: FBI Agent Lee Harker is assigned to an unsolved serial killer case that takes unexpected turns, revealing evidence of the occult. Harker discovers a personal connection to the killer and must stop him before he strikes again.

Directed by former actor Oz Perkins who also gave us The Blackcoat’s Daughter and Gretel & Hansel, Longlegs is already creating buzz with its moody images and cryptic hints. The film is rated R for bloody violence, and disturbing images.

Longlegs stars Nicolas Cage, Maika Monroe, and Alicia Witt.

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