![]() And once again, this movie doesn’t fuck around. Now, Rugna brings his latest vision of terror to the screen with When Evil Lurks. Rugna told a striking story about evil that existed in parallel dimensions. Terrified opened at Fantastic Fest and it managed to scare the pants off of everyone who watched it. From the title you could guess that this picture didn’t mess around. Conversely, this would make a perfect summer movie.Ī few years back director Damián Rugna brought us Terrified. Maybe an early “first horror movie of the year” January-wide-release schema would work here as well as it did for M3GAN. Let us know what you think of this upcoming film that hasn’t gotten a release date yet. In fact, Night Swim is based on one he did of the same name back in 2014. Perhaps Wan can’t save DC, but he can stay somewhat in his lane and give us an effective underwater cursed object movie. Let’s also remember that Wan has been working on his underwater opus Aquaman 2 so he may have taken some of the skills he learned from that film and applied them here to help out director Bryce McGuire. Before we get too cynical, let’s remember that WanBlum also did their take on a sentient doll movie, and that did pretty well. That concept may sound trite, but have you ever been swimming in a pool at night with the lights off? It can be both exhilarating and terrifying.Īll the elements are here for a cursed object movie, from graveled disembodied voices to grabby invisible hands, what we have here, is a haunted house movie but this time, it’s a pool. The Wan/Blumhouse machine continues to roll out some interesting titles, this time it’s Night Swim, about an evil swimming pool. Layers of Fear 2 is out now on PC, PS4 and Xbox One. The sound design really swirls, lives and breathes around you in those moments and is incredibly intensified through the use of a good pair of headphones.īinaurals really are the gravy of horror and Layers of Fear 2piles it on thick, placing you in tense spot where a simple wine bottle rolling across the floor paired with the right audio cue and a stinging controller vibration is enough to make you jump right out of your seat. I couldn’t agree more with this suggestion, to the point of it almost being a necessity. ![]() Right from the beginning, the game advises using headphones. Since so much of the game (especially at its beginning) is less things you can see and more things you can hear, the use of binaural artistry goes to work immediately. Layers of Fear 2 creates some rather effective jump scares out of auditory beats alone. Masters of the jump scare of found ways to use these tones against us and to ultimately scare the shit out of us. Some folks use these tones to help them sleep or to relax, but we aren’t here to talk about that stuff. Each control everything from sleep, relaxation, high level cognition and peak awareness. These waves include delta, theta, alpha, beta and gamma. The approach also leads to the mystically terrifying world of binaural frequencies.īinaural’s have a wide range of uses, and can literally control aspects of mood when played at varying frequencies. This even extended to using analogue cassette tapes and a variety of hand crafted sounds. Sound Designer, Brunon Lubas incorporated a ton of low-fi tech to achieve the creepy whirlwind that paints the walls of Layers of Fear 2. ![]() Add that to some terrifying shit befalling a unsuspecting couple, and you had fried horror gold. Unknown to most, the film was using actual tones to affect mood and heart rate. Instead, you get these tense scenes with that harrowing hum. It was a brilliant and groundbreaking, not necessarily because these methods hadn’t been used before, but because Paranormal Activity is devoid of a musical score. If you go back and watch, you will notice a strange low frequency hum that plays whenever the entity begins terrorizing the unfortunate couple. Most notably, 2007’s Paranormal Activity raised the bar by subtlety sprinkling in pulse raising binaural elements to great affect. This sort of auditory alchemy has been used in a variety of ways over the years. Layers of Fear 2 follows extremely method actor tasked by a complete auteur director to research, and to find, his character aboard a gigantic ocean liner. That very artful use of layers of sounds and paint flicks of frequency are exactly what is behind the most impressive and terrifying bits of Gun Media’s Layers of Fear 2. Binaural frequencies are sometimes the marrow of what makes you spill your popcorn at the cinema.
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