There's Going To Be An Antichrist Videogame For Some Reason
Remember Antichrist? Lars Von Trier's genital mutilation rom com? It's basically 500 Days of Summer, but with hyper-violent bourgeois malaise. Probably. I haven't seen it. But I feel really comfortable even without having actually seen the movie to think that maybe it doesn't need a videogame. Who cares what I think?! Not Videogame Town, that's for sure. From /Film:
Eden, as the game will be called, will be a first-person thriller/adventure game that invites players to confront their fears. Willem Dafoe will reportedly reprise his role in voice-over, though the game will not replicate the film, picking up afterward instead. (Not having seen Antichrist, I can't surmise what that means for Dafoe's performance.) Iversen says the experience will be "strong and very personal," "controversial" and that it "...must be your own personal hell - a bit like a nightmare version of 'Myst'."
Adds Vulture:
According to one source, the game will include "dead babies, psychological terror, mutilated genitals, and ultra fear." And if that didn't all sound ambitious enough, it will apparently "download grotesque news from the Web," manipulating game play based on real-time, real-world events.
Hahah. What? Obviously, "ultra fear" is the worst fear. But what is this "download grotesque news from the Web" nonsense? That is dumb. Unless Antichrist is about a married couple of grotesque newshounds, who go up to their cabin in the woods to take advantage of a highspeed internet connection to just download all of the grotesque news so quickly. I haven't seen it. It might be about that. (It's not about that.)
Posted by Gabe at 1:00 PM in Bad Idea Jeans, Video Games
Tags: Antichrist | Lars Von Trier | Willem Dafoe
"It's basically 500 Days of Summer, but with hyper-violent bourgeois malaise."
So it has a super cool indie soundtrack and will feature an obnoxiously large ad on videogum?
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Seriously. I just tried to open a new tab on Firefox, and a POP-UP AD for that fucking movie showed up. Whatever Fox Searchlight Pictures paid for that amount of exposure, it's just making me hate the movie more.
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You should install the Firefox add-on AdBlock Plus. It will remove all the annoying ad content from web pages. I didn't know what the uproar about Zooey Deschanel/500 Days of Summer was until I happened to open up Videogum in Safari.
AdBlock Plus occasionally interferes with playing embedded videos, but you can disable it at will.
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What's "500 Days of Summer"?
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I am actually really proud of you guys for getting the sponsorship! One gets worried when there are only in-house ads and Buzz Media stars laying off editorial. (Too insidery? Yeah, I read PaidContent. So what.)
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Now I just want to play Myst. Let me search my Foot Locker for my Game FAQ/Walkthrough. Thanks, Gabe.
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Finally! a game that plays into my sense of ultra fear (and mutilated genitals).
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Nice product placement. Now let's get in our Toyota Highlanders and go to Whole Foods where we'll pick up some groceries to store in our Gladd family of products which we can cook later for the challenge on some top of the line GE appliances.
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This game might be Skynets mother.
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Have you guys heard about (500) Days of Summer?
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I hope they bring it to the Wii so I can interactively crush Willem Defoe's testicles and jerk him off until he ejaculates blood.
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Woah, that was too much to read at like 10:30 am...thanks for raping my mind.
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They had me at "nightmare version of Myst." Then lost me at genital mutilation.
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I thought URU Live was the nightmare version of Myst.
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this is a silly idea, but Antichrist is an amazing movie. seriously, see it.
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