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‘Carrion’ Casts You As The Monster; The Results Are a Killer Good Time

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Carrion’s reverse horror approach is a really cool one to take. It places you in the tentacled killer form of a monster, and allows you to go from area to area unleashing horrific hell. Phobia Games Studio and Devolver Digital are the perfect pairing for such an affair, and for what is a mostly a killer good time as a whole.

Carrion begins with a monster escaping from its enclosure within an underground lab. Immediately, you (as the monster) begin satisfyingly grabbing, ripping apart and eating any humans in your wake. Each human morsel gives the monster a bit of growth in size. The larger you become the more you are able to accomplish and the more areas you are able to explore.

In that way the gameplay is satisfying and simple. Move your monster around the lab and destroy, eat, kill and grow.

Along the way you pick up mutations that allow you to throw webbing, attack with bladed tentacles and even take control of humans just to name a few. Each new ability will have you looking back through previously explored areas in order to reach parts of the level previously impenetrable.

Carrion also challenges you by making the size of your carnivorous monster part of what you have to factor in to advance to other parts of the levels. This means if you are too enormous, you might have to lose some of your biomass in order to sneak through a wall vent or vice versa.

Movement is extremely satisfying in Carrion. Tentacles move you from place to place, giving your control of the monster an almost weightlessness to it. This allows for traversing that quickly becomes the feeling of being all powerful.

Carrion is completely killer.

Sadly, encounters with later armed humans becomes a little bit more difficult. In these moments, you don’t feel wholly responsible for your enemies demise. Too many thrashing tentacles and chaos erupts at times, making it hard to know exactly what you are doing or even exactly what direction you were attacking.

There is something really great about being the monster for once. After finishing countless horror games in which I’m being hunted. It’s really cool to be able to flip that around be the one terrorizing the other half.

Carrion has a great set of puzzles throughout the laboratory. These are keep things interesting between the slaughtering of humans. The developers did a nice job of making those puzzle solves feel both organic and entirely rewarding.

The game also packs an unexpected amount of story for what it appears to be on the surface. Some of the final moments of the game are akin to Inside and Limbo in the best of ways. Striking and alluring, ultimately these bits of narrative are what ends up staying with you after completing the game.

Carrion is completely killer. It creates a mix of The Blob and The Thing and plays off of big moments we know from some our favorite films in a variety of rad ways. Becoming the monstrous, antagonist should be a blueprint for games moving forward. The team behind Carrion, has ingeniously cracked the entire damn code and its a must play, especially for horror fans.

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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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Exclusive Sneak Peek: Eli Roth and Crypt TV’s VR Series ‘The Faceless Lady’ Episode Five

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Eli Roth (Cabin Fever) and Crypt TV are knocking it out of the park with their new VR show, The Faceless Lady. For those unaware, this is the first fully scripted VR horror show on the market.

Even for masters of horror like Eli Roth and Crypt TV, this is a monumental undertaking. However, if I trust anyone to change the way that we experience horror, it would be these two legends.

The Faceless Lady

Ripped from the pages of Irish folklore, The Faceless Lady tells the story of a tragic spirit cursed to wander the halls of her castle for all of eternity. However, when three young couples are invited to the castle for a series of games, their fates may soon change.

So far, the story has provided horror fans with a gripping game of life or death that doesn’t look as if it will slow down in episode five. Luckily, we have an exclusive clip that may be able to satiate your appetites until the new premiere.

Airing on 4/25 at 5pmPT/8pmET, episode five follows our final three contestants in this wicked game. As the stakes are raised ever higher, will Ella be able to fully awaken her connection with Lady Margaret?

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The newest episode can be found on Meta Quest TV. If you haven’t already, follow this link to subscribe to the series. Make sure to check out the new clip below.

Eli Roth Present’s THE FACELESS LADY S1E5 Clip: THE DUEL – YouTube

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