Horror video games are a big business, annually selling bajillions of dollars worth of interactive scares and some even spawning equally as successful horror/sci-fi movie franchises, like Resident Evil, Silent Hill, Doom, House of the Dead, Alone in the Dark and Bridget Jones’s Diary.
Horror or not, If you’re a gamer, the Horror Games Awards 2023, airing this September exclusively through IGN’s™ YouTube™ and Twitch™ channels. Here’s the pant-kicker: winning titles are decided by fan voting, meaning you. Not me, though; I can’t afford video games AND beer, so I had to draw a line.
Here’s what’s going down: “Gaming has a history of celebrating its own, but award shows often pit horror offerings against triple-A mainstream titles with broader appeal. The recently announced Horror Games Awards, scheduled for September 7 (with Fear Fest on September 6), finally sees the devs and pubs behind titles like Amnesia: The Bunker, Dead Island 2 and the remakes of Dead Space and Resident Evil 4 take center stage with an event of their very own. Fan voting is currently open and runs through August 3rd.” (Click here)
So while you go rock the vote and go drink a beers, here are a few upcoming horror/sci-fi movies that may or may not be better as a video game…
TRANSMISSION / Release pending 2023 (VOD)
“While channel surfing on TV late one night it becomes clear that different stories on different channels are all connected, parts of the same story, a story that must never be told, containing footage that must never be seen.”
That pretty much describes everything on TV these days
DON’T MAKE A SOUND / Release pending 2023 (VOD)
“Two sisters traveling cross country are terrorized by a masked killer who films his victims.”
Wow — what a killer (no pun intended) plot! Why didn’t anyone else think to do that? I bet this goes on to make one hundred dollars!
CREEPING DEATH / Release pending 2023/2024 (VOD)
“While trying to enjoy a peaceful Halloween with his mother, Tim is paid a visit by his rambunctious, up-for-anything friends. After reluctantly letting them inside the house he becomes intertwined with the circumstances of their Halloween prankings. One that turns out has broken a sacred tradition kept between humans and otherworldly deities known as the Aos Si.”
Halloween prankings. Pffft! In my day we used to call it wanton vandalism, which was often rewarded with the glory of candy.
THE GLENARMA TAPES / Release pending 2023/2024 (VOD)
“In spring 2020, five art students and two lecturers went missing in a remote forest in Ireland. What happened to them has remained unknown — until now. Their last movements are pieced together from footage recovered from a police operation almost two years later, where it becomes clear that what started out as an innocent prank became a horrific fight for survival in the cold darkness of Glenarma Forest.”
I looked up that place. It’s actually called Glenarm and is one of the least known of the nine glens of Antrim. The forest is small, but has a wide variety of tree species growing under excellent conditions of soil and climate. And from what I hear it’s also an excellent place to freeze to death in the cold darkness.
Drinkin' & Drive-in 