While that could be called "elevated horror" by those who like the term, The Devil in Me is-like all of The Dark Pictures-a more traditional blood harvest, and it works because Supermassive understands that. Who will survive and what will be left of them?Įach game in the series has put a familiar face in its small cast, and for The Devil in Me, it's Jessie Buckley, fresh off the polarizing Alex Garland body-horror film, Men. As it turns out, the curator of the grounds is less than well-hinged himself-who could've guessed?-and what unfolds from there is roughly five or so hours of quality slasher material.
To their excitement, they're invited to a scale replica of the killer's ghastly hotel that doubles as something of a museum where they're promised footage and exclusive background information. After a short flashback, the game jumps to the present day and follows an indie film crew making a documentary about Holmes. Holmes, sometimes dubbed "America's first serial killer." Holmes' "murder castle" was in fact a hotel that he had outfitted to operate as more of a maze of horrific contraptions that could make Jigsaw's works look like Mouse Trap. The Devil in Me takes us to Chicago, first at the turn of the 1900s to introduce-or, for horror fanatics, more likely remind us of-H.H.
The Devil in Me is Supermassive's latest slasher, and it outshines its predecessors-with a more cohesive plot, best-in-series characters, and a bit of clever gamification injected into the cinematic experience.
Results have been mixed across the four released games, but on a steady upward trajectory that does not falter with the latest effort. When The Dark Pictures Anthology was revealed, its promise was immediately obvious: Take the team that gave us the excellent Until Dawn and have it tackle new horror subgenres at a clip of about once per year.
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