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Vampire Crawlers Review - Pixel-Perfect Pandemonium

Vampire Crawlers Review - Pixel-Perfect Pandemonium https://ift.tt/AsXSgEH "Okay, just one more run." This is the phrase I've muttered at midnight--and then again at 2 AM--every day since diving into Vampire Crawlers . There are nights when it feels like it'd take an army to pull me from the clutches of its pixelated chaos. This deckbuilding spin-off to indie roguelike Vampire Survivors is every bit as gripping as that original outing, bringing both familiarity and freshness wrapped up into a first-person dungeon-crawling adventure. I love that Vampire Crawlers maintains an undying commitment to the tone, characters, and retro visuals of its predecessor. It's evident even from the initial cutscene, which shows a returning character fending off hordes of attackers in the Mad Forest from Survivors' isometric view before transitioning to a first-person view of the area. Without using a single word, it proudly declares that a new perspective doesn't change t...
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Hulu's Hellraiser Review -- Our Hearts Are Hellbound At Long Last


Hulu's Hellraiser Review -- Our Hearts Are Hellbound At Long Last https://ift.tt/n8xGeOv

There have been whispers of a Hellraiser "reboot" for over a decade, with the project entering and exciting various stages of development, changing hands between production companies, writers, directors--you name it. It seemed strangely appropriate, if disappointing, that a franchise founded on the idea of being trapped in a nightmarish liminal reality would find itself in production hell for so long. But now, thankfully, the puzzle has been solved at long last and the Hellraiser reboot is finally here with director David Bruckner (The Night House) at the helm and Hulu acting as distributor. And better yet--it turns out that it actually was worth the wait, however hellish the road to this point may have seemed.

It wouldn't be completely accurate to call new Hellraiser a proper reboot--it doesn't attempt to retread any of the ground covered in either the original Clive Barker novella, The Hellbound Heart, or the original movie from 1986. The characters--barring one or two familiar-ish Cenobites--are brand-new, the story is brand-new, and the mythology of the world has been changed to benefit them. It's as much a "reboot" as any of the franchise's other installments (there are 10 of them--11 now, counting this one) that tossed out new characters and ideas without so much as a backwards glance to the story put forth across 1, 2 (and 6, kind of, if you want to get technical).

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