I'm front loading a lot of my posts this week as next weekend is my birthday weekend where I don't intend to be doing anything blog related. Starting with some good old VR horror.
As far as I'm concerned, horror is the very best thing you can be doing when wearing a VR headset, I've had some scary experiences such as Resident Evil 7: Biohazard and Paranormal Activity: The Lost Soul and so I'm always happy to champion those types of experiences. United Games' Fractured Sanity is coming soon to Steam and Oculus App Lab, the press release describes it as a 'heart-wrenching VR survival horror experience'. It at least has a good choice of location, taking place as it does in an asylum with a shady history. All mechanics and puzzles are 'realistic and interactive', with the story revolving around you trying to find out the hidden truth around the asylum, and how you got to be there.
A Night of the Undead is out now on Blu-ray from VIPCO and Bayview Entertainment, from directors Jake C. Young and Kenny Scott Guffey. The synopsis states there was a zombie outbreak in 1968 but was later dismissed as a hoax. Now in modern day, a group of podcasters have headed to the farmhouse where it was said to have occured, on the anniversary of the apparent outbreak, where things most likely become far more real than they ever expected.
Finally, some brief stats from JustWatch UK's top 10 lists for January. Unsurprisingly, considering all the great press, the TV show adaptation of zombie video game The Last of Us is in the number one spot. I really need to get around to watching that! (update, have seen the first episode, wasn't bad). In the top 10 film charts, number one sees The Menu, apparently a black comedy horror, I can't say I have ever heard of it. Parallel universe movie Everything Everywhere All At Once is at number two, and Jordan Peele's sci-fi horror Nope is in tenth place.
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