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Here's the Live Action Teaser for Shinji Mikami's The Evil Within

Step 1: Raid an old horror movie costume/prop warehouse. Step 2: Drench everything in fake blood. Step 3: Add tentacles liberally.

Apr. 22 2013

Posted by: Alex

In This Episode:

The Evil Within

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Static from old records, black and white photos of sad looking children, glimpses of boogeymen and gratuitous smash cuts don't automatically make for good horror. Someone show me a survival horror game that can tell a story on the same level as American Horror Story and I'll show you the future of this genre.

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Soo, soo ready for this =)

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I was not aware that Shinji Mikami was making a Silent Hill game.

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I, uh...
I dtill don't know what the game's about. I mean it'll probably be cool and scary. But if you asked to give you more details, I wouldn't know what to say.

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The live action trailer looks genuinely terrifying, if the final product is anything like this I'll have tears of joy (fear). Horror games this gen have been absolutely terrible, as they have been trying to appeal to the mainstream and forgetting what the genre 'horror' is. I'm hoping this brings it back to when horror games were actually horrifying and not just a third / first person shooter in disguise.

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This looks like it could be Silent Hill's creepy uncle. You know, the one who likes to stroke his hair. No, not that hair.

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i love twisted horror shit, and this teaser is some of the more twisted shit i've seen in years. sign me up.

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TENTACLES>>>>>

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i need to see this movie!

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People are so hard to please these days. It's Shinji Mikami, clearly aiming to make an actual HORROR game again.. Plus the trailer actually has real physical special effects and no CG that I can see, old school style.
Everything about this screams being in the spirit of old-school horror games and films, and that makes me totally down with it, even though this trailer tells me pretty much nothing about the game.
Consider me interested!

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So that's what a barb wire factory looks like!

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Some of that was pretty sweet, I love fucked up mutant ass looking monsters.

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Excellent. The more that these enemies look/feel like The Thing, the better.

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  • Pyramid head analog? Check.
  • Creepy girl from The Ring with extra arms? Check.
  • Guy with glass embedded in skin à la Pinhead? Check.

At the very least, I respect the sources this is ripping from.

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its safe to say this will be a combination of survival and horror

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the master of unlocking headsafes

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Ah good old fashioned prosthetic Horror none of this CG bollox

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Plot Twist: this entire game is actually an ad for V8 juice.

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This is a great tour of his office can't wait to see the game.

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I'm not confident this is the guy who is going to "save" survival horror. Keep in mind it was a lot of the concepts that evolved from his games that apparently "ruined" the genre to begin with.

Before I get stabbed with all of your pitchforks, I'm not knocking his games. I've enjoyed several of them. In fact the only game he's been involved with, of the few I've played, that I would consider disappointing is Shadows of the Damned. But you're deluding yourself if you don't think games like Resident Evil 4 birthed the way for the modern survival horror game. Dead Space would not exist if Resident Evil 4 weren't there first.

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JULIA
Who's there?

On the far side of the room, a movement in the shadows.

JULIA almost retreats, but something keeps her staring
into the murk, as SOMETHING - the remnants of a human
form made of twisted, blistered strands of flesh,
raises its head. It's squatting against the wall,
unable to lift itself into a standing position. Its
eyes, however, have life in them: and hunger. This,
though he's unrecognizable, is FRANK.

FRANK
(a pained whisper)
Julia.

JULIA
Oh my God.

FRANK
Don't look at me.

JULIA
Who are you?

FRANK
I said: don't look.

She looks away.

Help me.

JULIA
Tell me who you are.

FRANK
Frank.

JULIA's face registers horror and disbelief.

JULIA
No. God no.

FRANK
Believe me. It's me. It's
really me.

JULIA
What happened to you?

FRANK
His blood ... on the floor ...
It brought me back.

JULIA
Back from where?

FRANK
Just help, will you? Please God,
help me...

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Pyramidcubehead there looks vaguely familiar.

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Looks kinda boring to me.

I love quirky japanese games but i'm not a fan of Shinji Mikami. I love many games he worked on but i always feel like it's his team that's genius and not SM himself. That's just the impression that I get. I'm not sold on him. Platinumgames and Suda anytime, Shijni meh.

@cale said:

This just makes me wonder what Swery would do if he was in Mikami's position, having all the resources a company like Bethesda can provide. I'm sure we would not be left indifferent.

YES!!

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@barrock said:

@malkavianjd said:

Man, Bethesda publishing? All care for this game went out the window in 5 seconds.

They also published Dishonored which was great.

I'm guessing they were referring to the way Bethesda tends to fuck their customers in some regions like Eastern Europe.

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This looks awesome. Exactly the kind of thing I like to play.

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Mikami horror? Sign me up.

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@nickux said:

I love Shinji Mikami's games, more than I could probably relate in this comment, but this trailer feels really dumb. Without gameplay it's hard for me to get excited for it as a game. Based on his previous work, I have no doubt it will be great but this trailer looks like a low-budget horror torture movie. I understand it's being used more to convey the tone and what their goals are in terms of style, horror, etc. but I'm never much for live-action trailers for a game.

1) It's supposed to be dumb...?

2) Trailers without gameplay are also supposed to be dumb.

I understand your feels about this, but I've kind of made my peace with live action trailers. All I know is they'll show gameplay eventually, and I'll judge it then. But yeah, it's kind of lame - I don't know what other medium has commercials that don't show off that medium (although TV commercials for books are effing hilarious).

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Well alright.

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Needs more tentacles.

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You're supposed to leave step 3 out, the joke is ruined now!

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Well this will haunt my dreams from now on thanks GB lol

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You make it sound so easy, Alex.

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Step 4: Cut a hole in the box.

Step 5: Put your dick in the box.

Maybe Mikami feels the world is now ready for his live-action cutscenes, RE1-style.

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It's maybe not the greatest trailer, but the promise of a new survival horror game from Mikami gives you hope for an otherwise dying genre.

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Man, Bethesda publishing? All care for this game went out the window in 5 seconds.

They also published Dishonored which was great.

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Gross

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Wow, the graphics look great.

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Looks creepy as hell. I'm not great at enduring Horror games, unless they give you plenty of ways to savagely brutalise the enemies (a la Dead Space), instead of having to run away from monsters (e.g., Amnesia), but it's hard to tell from this unrevealing, albeit awesome-looking, trailer.

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I am a tentacle fan!

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Tentacles, you say?

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Dang son!

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My body is ready

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I really like what they've done with this. Its got a very undeground 70s horror movie sorta look to it, spliced with some Clive Bark-ian and a bit of Lovecraft-ian for good measure. Kinda goofy in parts, but if this trailer's tone will be in anyway indicative of the full game, then it's clear that Mikami's at least trying to create a genuinely unnerving horror game.

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Looks cool, I'm in.

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I expected Patrick to be on top of this, not Alex. ;P

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@meatsim said:

It's Pyramid Head's 2nd cousin once removed Safe Head.

No, no, no!. Safe Head is Superhead's far more responsible and less promiscuous sister

@geirr said:

So he replaced Pyramid Head's pyramid with a safe and give him a big hammer. Brilliant!

It just looked like a smaller version of monster from RE5... with a safe on its head

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Man, Bethesda publishing? All care for this game went out the window in 5 seconds.