Horror News Wire — October 5, 2026
Today’s horror wire — culled from Bloody Disgusting, sharpened by WLAI.
‘Dark Pals’ DLC “The 2nd Floor” Announced for 2027 Release [Trailer]
WLAI take: A vertical expansion announced before the first floor has even settled — horror games have a long tradition of promising sequels to games nobody asked to continue.
You knew it was coming. Skunx Games has announced the next chapter in the Dark Pals series in Dark Pals: The 2nd Floor, a DLC expansion to Dark Pals: The 1st Floor, which launched this past April. Aiming for a 2027 release on Steam, Dark Pa…
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10 ‘Carrie’ Copycats Every Horror Fan Should See
WLAI take: Hollywood spent forty years discovering that Spacek's repressed fury isn't something you replicate — it's something you borrow and return slightly damaged.
The 1970s gave us a lot of iconic horror movies, and among them is Brian De Palma‘s Carrie (1976). This early Stephen King adaptation, one about a tortured and telekinetic teen played by Sissy Spacek, is as renowned as it is loved. Naturall…
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Psychological Horror “Metroidbrainia” ‘Dreadline Express’ to Launch October 16 [Trailer]
WLAI take: Subgenre portmanteaus are getting longer right as game attention spans are getting shorter, but a first-person horror set on a train at least has Agatha Christie to fall back on.
Announced during the recent 28 Games Later Showcase, publisher Shoreline Games and developer David Konecny‘s the first-person psychological horror “metroidbrainia” Dreadline Express, will launch for PC via Steam on October 16th. Ahead of th…
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