Not exact matches
They are cut off and
alone,
in a
house that begins literally to be
haunted.
So, it's me
alone, when I'm
in the
house because my family is
in Westchester... and there are stories that this
house is
haunted.
Borrowing the structure of a typical
haunted house, but ditching the blood, guts and psychotic clowns with chainsaws,
ALONE explores the deepest regions of the bizarre, and places you as a participant
in your own nightmare.»
Putting down your money for
Alone in the Dark: Illumination will net you limited - edition character and weapon skins and a 10 % discount, and there's a 15 % discount for pre-ordering
Haunted House: Cryptic Graves.
Atari is bringing back classic horror franchises
Alone in the Dark and
Haunted House later this year, and the publisher has just opened up pre-orders for both titles.
Max, a former jazz pianist who never quite made it, sits
alone in a
house haunted by memories, mostly of his wife Eva (the great Claire Bloom) who has just died.
Some of the most
haunting scenes
in Preminger films are those
in which dialogue ceases, multivoicedness dies down, and a character is left to confront his or her own enigma
in silence: e.g., McPherson
in Laura's apartment; Dan (Dana Andrews) with the milk bottle
in Daisy Kenyon; Diana (Jean Simmons) waiting for Frank (Robert Mitchum)
in the empty
house in Angel Face; the brief solitudes of Cécile (Jean Seberg)
in Bonjour Tristesse (1958); Brig (Don Murray) returning to his office to commit suicide
in Advise and Consent; Fermoyle
in his room
in Vienna
in The Cardinal; Henry (Michael Caine)
alone in his
house in Hurry Sundown.
With the recent announcements of new
Haunted House and
Alone in the Dark titles from Atari, as they give the IPs a good dusting, it's no surprise they're looking to shake cobwebs from others.
Other series followed suit: 1992's «
Alone in the Dark» was a low - key
haunted house mystery inspired by Edgar Allen Poe's short story «The Fall of the House of Usher.&r
house mystery inspired by Edgar Allen Poe's short story «The Fall of the
House of Usher.&r
House of Usher.»
Atari has announced it will be releasing two «re-imagined» horror titles based on the
Haunted House and
Alone in the Dark games, this fall.
Just this year, Atari has released several modern interperations of classic games, including
Haunted House,
Alone in the Dark and RollerCoaster Tycoon.
The setting
alone makes Detention more interesting than the seven trillion horror games set
in a
haunted house released over the past few years (looking at you, Layers of Fear).
Representing the ugly side of horror games is Aliens: Colonial Marines, Dino Crisis 3, and Atari's pitiful attempts to make
Alone in the Dark and
Haunted House relevant again.