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First ‘Deal With the Devil’ Trailer is Hiding Something

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There’s a secret hiding inside this moody debut trailer for the upcoming psychological horror game Deal With the Devil. The sly devils at Round Table Games clearly know their audience, they’ve even made a puzzle out of the game’s marketing with some sort of “key” that’s been hidden across the five trailers they have planned for it.

I’ve looked around, and after spending way too much time sifting through the footage frame-by-frame, I’ve found more than a dozen key-like candidates — more on those later — and one enormously creepy hug.

But first, a recap. For the unfamiliar, Deal With the Devil is a Unreal 4-powered first-person horror game set in the 1920s that follows a woman named Amelia Woods, who “walks hand-in-hand with the player as they determine whether they choose to walk the path of enlightenment, or follow a slippery slope into the realms of madness as the anti-hero of the piece.”

Now about that key. The problem I ran into when I was trying to dissect this trailer is it has too many possibilities. It looks like it was made by the Illuminati’s marketing department, with its great many symbols, strange images, and brief flashes of text. We also only have 1/5 of the footage, so we could potentially be missing four minutes of fairly important footage.

Below you’ll find a few interesting things I found, starting with a screen I took of the opening poem.

Soon you will be gone and I will pass beyond your grave.
I will tiptoe through the tulips that the other lovers gave.
I shall smile and say adieu as I pass beyond your bones,
and turn around and spit upon your sacrilegious headstone.

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Eventually, the text burns out, but not before obscuring most of the text, leaving a lone ‘ass’.

How am I doing so far?

I also found this, the world’s most one-sided hug.

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That right there is the troll meme made flesh. Something sinister is afoot, y’all.

How about a hidden request to “come find me”? That’s something, probably. No? Well, shit.

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Okay, how about this. I’ve captured it with crystal clarity so one of you can have a go at it. All I ask is that you quickly stop translating it if your efforts cause the earth to tremble beneath you. If that happens, then this is definitely some kind of demon-summoning incantation meant not for mortal tongue.

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If this string of numbers (41.7151377, 44.827096) are coordinates, they point to a spot next to a cemetery in Tbilisi, Georgia.

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And finally, a mildly unsettling letter.

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That’s some of what I found. Maybe you’ll have better luck.

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Gamer, writer, terrible dancer, longtime toast enthusiast. Legend has it Adam was born with a controller in one hand and the Kraken's left eye in the other. Legends are often wrong.

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‘Alien Hunt’ – It’s an ‘Alien’ and ‘Predator’ Mockbuster Rolled into One! [Trailer]

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While you wait for Alien: Romulus, the folks over at Devilworks have cooked up their own slice of “mockbuster” fun with Alien Hunt, and we’re debuting the trailer here on BD this morning.

This brand-new sci-fi horror from director Aaron Mirtes (The Bigfoot Trap, Painted in Blood) is set for its US premiere on May 14, and you can find it on digital thanks to Devilworks.

You can exclusively watch the official trailer for Alien Hunt below, which looks to combine elements of Alien and Predator. This particular “mockbuster” has very little interest in hiding its inspirations, with the alien designs plucked straight out of H.R. Giger’s beautiful brain. Hey, if you’re going to pull from other movies, might as well take from the all-time greats!

In Alien Hunt, “On a hunting trip in the wilderness, a group of siblings discovers an abandoned military outpost on their land, but is it what it seems?

“Their trip takes a sinister turn when they find themselves facing off against a relentless army of extra-terrestrial beings. Suddenly, the hunters become the hunted.

“The formidable squad of alien soldiers will stop at nothing to wipe out the enemy and in an all-out, brutal battle for survival, it’s kill or be killed in Alien Hunt.”

Barron Boedecker (Escape Pod, The Bigfoot Trap), Brent Bentley (The Perfect In-Laws, Haunt Season), Deiondre Teagle (The Visitor, Painted in Blood, Death Ranch), Chelsey Fuller (The Bigfoot Trap, The Silent Natural), Jesse Santoyo (A Nashville Country Christmas, Potter’s Ground), and Adam Pietripaoli (The Bigfoot Trap, The OctoGames) star.

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