A Red Dead Redemption 2 fan has dug deep into the game's audio files and discovered a blooper that gives us a rare peek behind the Rockstar curtain.
15.03.2024 - 10:17 / gamesradar.com / Ralph Ineson
Since the first trailer for upcoming horror prequel The First Omen landed online, genre fans have been speculating as to what the trippy-looking movie will actually be about.
Directed by Arkasha Stevenson, the movie follows a young woman (Nell Tiger Free) as she travels from the US to Rome to start a new life of religious servitude. Once there, though, she finds herself wrestling with a darkness so great it causes her to question her faith.
"To control those who don't believe, create something to fear," the teaser's tagline reads, as a series of clips suggest that Ralph Ineson, Sonia Braga, and Bill Nighy's clergy are hellbent on committing the ultimate sin: orchestrating the birth of the Antichrist. While there's next to no dialogue in the clip, which makes it hard to know for sure, it appears as if the ungodly trio are inducing possessions and welcoming babies, an act that looks set to bring about children much like The Omen's wicked Damien Thorn. (Did we mention it's a precursor to Richard Donner's chilling classic?)
Free, however, has yet to see an hypothesis online that proves accurate. "I have a tendency to trawl YouTube comments when it's four in the morning and I can't go to sleep," she tells SFX magazine in the new issue, which features Star Trek: Discovery season 5 on the cover. "I'm enjoying looking at everybody's theories [about the trailer] because everybody's wrong, baby!" We should expect the unexpected, then? She nods, amused. "Everybody is wrong! I hope we scare the shit out of people."
Not a subscriber to SFX? Then head on over here to get the latest issues sent directly to your home/device!
Elsewhere in the chat, Free, who is perhaps best known for playing unhinged nanny Leanne in the M. Night Shyamalan-produced Apple TV Plus series Servant, said that she can't wait for those who have little hope in the continuation to be proven wrong when they see what Stevenson and co. have conjured up.
"Let's call a spade a spade here: the bar for these kinds of prequels and sequels and remakes, especially with these iconic horror franchises, is not particularly high," she says. "I think expectations might be low. It will be satisfying to show what we’ve made because I don't think that it's what people are going to be expecting, whatsoever."
The First Omen releases on April 5. The above is just a snippet from our interview, available in the latest issue of SFX magazine, which features Star Trek: Discovery season 5 on the cover and is available on newsstands from Wednesday, March 20.
For even more from SFX, sign up to our newsletter, which delivers all the latest exclusives straight to your inbox.
A Red Dead Redemption 2 fan has dug deep into the game's audio files and discovered a blooper that gives us a rare peek behind the Rockstar curtain.
Bill Nighy has played a lot of different types of characters over the course of his career, from rock star and a vampire, to a humanoid squid and a radio producer. With The First Omen, he gets to add 'priest' to that list, and what a priest his character is...
Microsoft has officially revealed the latest Xbox Series X/S controller colour.
The First Omen may be set in 1971 but director Arkasha Stevenson was hellbent on the horror movie not having "period attitudes", say its stars Bill Nighy and Nell Tiger Free.
Sega Of America employees have become the first a major US video games studio to ratify a union contract. The contract covers guarantees minimum yearly pay increases for around 150 staff through 2026.
Two years and a month after Horizon Forbidden West launched on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 consoles, PC gamers can finally step into the vast and gorgeous post-apocalyptic Western USA created by Guerrilla Games.
Greetings, Polygon readers! Each week, we round up the most notable new releases to streaming and VOD, highlighting the biggest and best new movies for you to watch at home.
The surprisingly well-received TV adaptation of Twisted Metal has only been (officially) watchable in the USA for about eight months. That's changing from today, though, as the action comedy is now available to stream in the UK.
It looks as if PSN is down across several regions at least, and is quite possibly a global problem. It's highly unusual and rare to see such outages, so here's what we know so far about when it started, what it's affecting, and if there's any sign of a recovery at the moment.
The Twisted Metal TV show is finally available for viewing in the UK.
Rockstar Games has issued a fresh update for Red Dead Redemption 2 — the game's first meaningful patch in 18 months. But, to the disappointment of fans, there's sadly no new content and no sign of any visual upgrades for players on newer console hardware.
Apex Legends' developers have deployed the "first of a layered series of updates" designed to protect players from hacks after two professional players fell victim to foul play mid-tournament over the past weekend.