I feel as if there is a singularity coming between movies and video-games -- so far movies based on video-games are generally terrible, with a couple of moderate exceptions. But games have managed to become so cinematic over the past few years that... well I'm not really the expert on this since my "gaming" knowledge ended circa the Wii, and all I ever played was Mario Kart anyway. (God I love Mario Kart though.) So I didn't even know that Exit 8 -- a forthcoming horror movie from Japan that I have already seen and will have stuff to say about closer to its April 10th release -- was based on a video-game when I saw it. Now that I know that though it makes perfect sense, and without being too revealing regarding my feelings on the film... well the movie's good. Okay? It's definitely one of the few the proud the great video-game movies. And I know that A24's upcoming horror flick Backrooms (see more here) is based on a series of YouTube shorts and not a game but these properties feel very similar -- hence what I was getting at with the "singularity" comment. The people making the movies of the future will generally be people familiar with video-games, and these aesthetics are going to merge in ways that are hopefully fascinating like Exit 8 and Backrooms, are, and less like the shoot-em-up movies (think the Resident Evil or the Doom movies) that we have been getting for years and don't really work as either. Okay I wasn't planning on that diatribe -- point being we just got the Exit 8 poster as seen up top and it rules. Love it. Will buy a copy when I can buy a copy. And here's the trailer. You should seek this movie out!
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THat looks fun, thanks for posting
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