Up next isThe Devil In Me, inspired by the infamous Chicago serial killer H. H. Holmes.
It’s a serial killer slasher in a weirdo hotel, and it has a true crime element.
If you’ve not heard of H. H. Holmes in specific you’ve probably heard of him by proxy.
That guy who had a special hotel in Chicago for murdering people?
That’s your boy Henry Howard.
“He’s an incredible character,” says Heaton.
“I mean, obviously, he’s aterriblecharacter, but he’s very compelling.”
“Our game is mostly set in the modern day, about a killer that’s inspired by Holmes.
So that allows us to take what we want,” explains Heaton.
His hotel seems to have been pretty normal.
Some of the 27 people he confessed to killing were verifiably still alive.
Heaton says, citing the over the top speech Holmes gave at his trial, and the elaborate confession.
But a lot of the mythmaking was done by the press.
“They call [his hotel] the Murder Castle.
They drew maps of it and they really made it into something amazing.
So the line between reality and myth and fiction is very blurry with H. H. Holmes.
That’s not bad for us.”
It looks like a great haunted house atmosphere, in other words.
The film crew are a small workplace crew.
There are people that like each other and work together and and support each other.
And these tensions are bubbling against the backdrop of being trapped and pursued by a serial killer.
In a first for a Dark Pictures game, each character also has a tool that can be helpful.
Those aren’t the only changes, either.
And, in a move that many will be excited about, your characters can run!
“It’s nice to be able to take exploration at your own pace.
“And it’s also of course, drawing on the Saw franchise.
Not especially bloody, perhaps, but pretty horrible.
“There were a couple of deaths where some of the actors went, ‘Oh myGod!
Who thought this up?’…
And slowly everyone would look at me.
They are really horrible.”
He says 2018’s The Perfection, a psychological thriller.
The plot has integrated twists and turns, it’s very satisfying.
And it’s got one of the most horrible sequences that I can remember in a horror film.”
Enter the murder hotel, if you dare, in November.
