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Horror is in your face with Xbox One and Oculus Rift

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Good news for Xbox and PC fans! Microsoft and Oculus Rift have partnered. Next year Oculus Rift units will begin shipping with an Xbox One controller packaged with it and come with the capability of streaming Xbox One games.

Oculus Rift has been in the development stage for it seems like forever and a half. I got to try one out a couple of years ago at Austin’s SXSW. The experience was everything that I hoped virtual reality would be.

It was plain awesome. I wanted one right away. I was taken back to when I was a kid and really bad movies like “Lawnmower Man,” “Virtuosity,” and “Johnny Nemonic” made VR technology seem like it was right around the corner and having a unit would be as coveted as a hoverboard.

Well fast-foward a few decades and we are here!

The possibilities are pretty open. It is total immersion into games and movies and really brings about a whole new entertainment medium as a whole. It’s really fucking exciting.

Being that we are all horror fans here, of course the first thing we started thinking about was horror games and what they would be like on the Oculus Rift. There are a few companies already working with Microsoft to develop some games and Most likely we will be seeing a lot of those titles reveled at this years E3.

In the mean time we started thinking about what already existing games we would like to see ported over to Oculus Rift. We came up with a short list of games that will reduce us to shivering jelly once we are fully plugged into a VR experience.

Outlast

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One of the scariest games I have ever played in my life, if not THE scariest. This game was one I played on the hardest setting and in total darkness. It was one of the only games I ever played that I wanted to walk away from. Staying involved was an exercise in courage and willpower. This game in VR might push the limits of sanity. I can already see the white streaks of Scooby Doo’s shocked hair on all gamers who involve themselves in that experience.

F.E.A.R

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While it wasn’t one of the best games, it was full of some well thought out unexpected jump scares. This was one game that made me drop my controller in fright.

Resident Evil 4

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Any “Resident Evil” would be awesome to see. But the fourth installment of the series was arguably the scariest and best of the series. I would love to immerse myself further into this world with the help of the Oculus.

Alien Isolation

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This game had the same kind of scares as “Outlast” which is to say that the whole fucking game is terrifying. There is no breaks there are no moments of peace or time to get a beer or soda from the fridge it is a rapid and constant punch in the face.

DOOM

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Recently there has been some glances at the next DOOM installment. I would be happy with any VR experience in this world. I think it would be cool (and also possible aneurism inducing) to be able to play the first “DOOM” in that way. Graphics are cool and all but there is also a lot to be said about nostalgia, especially if that nostalgia is trapped to your head and beamed into your eye holes.

Silent Hills

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Yep, I said it. I haven’t given up hope on “Silent Hills” still being a thing. Maybe they are waiting to announce something at E3 or maybe visionary Guillermo Del Toro wants to bring it into full virtual reality and the technology wasn’t there yet. That is all speculation but it makes me feel better and a little more hopeful. If not, it would be cool if we could at least get a VR version of the old games from the series.

Call of Duty: Zombies

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This game is hard as nails and verges on impossible especially in later hoards. Seeing something like this would be awesome. I can just imagine planking up windows and taking down zombies down-scope right before being attacked by a zombie I didn’t see in the corner; all in full Oculus Rift VR action.

What games would you guys like to see? Let us know in the comments below.

 

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‘Evil Dead’ Film Franchise Getting TWO New Installments

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It was a risk for Fede Alvarez to reboot Sam Raimi’s horror classic The Evil Dead in 2013, but that risk paid off and so did its spiritual sequel Evil Dead Rise in 2023. Now Deadline is reporting that the series is getting, not one, but two fresh entries.

We already knew about the Sébastien Vaniček upcoming film that delves into the Deadite universe and should be a proper sequel to the latest film, but we are broadsided that Francis Galluppi and Ghost House Pictures are doing a one-off project set in Raimi’s universe based off of an idea that Galluppi pitched to Raimi himself. That concept is being kept under wraps.

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“Francis Galluppi is a storyteller who knows when to keep us waiting in simmering tension and when to hit us with explosive violence,” Raimi told Deadline. “He is a director that shows uncommon control in his feature debut.”

That feature is titled The Last Stop In Yuma County which will release theatrically in the United States on May 4. It follows a traveling salesman, “stranded at a rural Arizona rest stop,” and “is thrust into a dire hostage situation by the arrival of two bank robbers with no qualms about using cruelty-or cold, hard steel-to protect their bloodstained fortune.”

Galluppi is an award-winning sci-fi/horror shorts director whose acclaimed works include High Desert Hell and The Gemini Project. You can view the full edit of High Desert Hell and the teaser for Gemini below:

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‘Invisible Man 2’ Is “Closer Than Its Ever Been” to Happening

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Elisabeth Moss in a very well-thought-out statement said in an interview for Happy Sad Confused that even though there have been some logistical issues for doing Invisible Man 2 there is hope on the horizon.

Podcast host Josh Horowitz asked about the follow-up and if Moss and director Leigh Whannell were any closer to cracking a solution to getting it made. “We are closer than we have ever been to cracking it,” said Moss with a huge grin. You can see her reaction at the 35:52 mark in the below video.

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Whannell is currently in New Zealand filming another monster movie for Universal, Wolf Man, which might be the spark that ignites Universal’s troubled Dark Universe concept which hasn’t gained any momentum since Tom Cruise’s failed attempt at resurrecting The Mummy.

Also, in the podcast video, Moss says she is not in the Wolf Man film so any speculation that it’s a crossover project is left in the air.

Meanwhile, Universal Studios is in the middle of constructing a year-round haunt house in Las Vegas which will showcase some of their classic cinematic monsters. Depending on attendance, this could be the boost the studio needs to get audiences interested in their creature IPs once more and to get more films made based on them.

The Las Vegas project is set to open in 2025, coinciding with their new proper theme park in Orlando called Epic Universe.

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Jake Gyllenhaal’s Thriller ‘Presumed Innocent’ Series Gets Early Release Date

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Jake Gyllenhaal’s limited series Presumed Innocent is dropping on AppleTV+ on June 12 instead of June 14 as originally planned. The star, whose Road House reboot has brought mixed reviews on Amazon Prime, is embracing the small screen for the first time since his appearance on Homicide: Life on the Street in 1994.

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Presumed Innocent is being produced by David E. Kelley, J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot, and Warner Bros. It is an adaptation of Scott Turow’s 1990 film in which Harrison Ford plays a lawyer doing double duty as an investigator looking for the murderer of his colleague.

These types of sexy thrillers were popular in the ’90s and usually contained twist endings. Here’s the trailer for the original:

According to Deadline, Presumed Innocent doesn’t stray far from the source material: “…the Presumed Innocent series will explore obsession, sex, politics and the power and limits of love as the accused fights to hold his family and marriage together.”

Up next for Gyllenhaal is the Guy Ritchie action movie titled In the Grey scheduled for release in January 2025.

Presumed Innocent is an eight-episode limited series set to stream on AppleTV+ starting June 12.

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