This Week in Dead Meat | June 8th

What’s Going On In The World

1. Mike Flanagan’s Carrie Series Cast is Revealed: The Carrie series continues to chug along, and we’ve got some horror icons joining the cast, including Amber Midthunder and Matthew Lillard.

2. Phasmophobia Film in the Works: Blumhouse is continuing to get into the video game adaptation game with an adaptation of the popular indie ghost hunting game Phasmophobia.

3. Octavia Spencer Will Return for More MA in Blumhouse Sequel: Don’t worry, we won’t be MA-less for the MA sequel, with Oscar Winner Octavia Spencer returning in the titular role.

Trailers

• Black Phone 2: With a bit of Nightmare on Elm Street Vibes, a bit of Friday the 13th vibes, and a whole lot of vibes all its own - the Grabber returns and it looks like it’s going way bigger after the first movie’s fairly contained setting.

• Alien: Earth: After a lot of speculation about how exactly Noah Hawley’s Alien series would work, the show’s first trailer gives us a lot of answers on what exactly we’re getting ourselves into. If you wanna go in blind, avoid watching this.

• ICK: From its soundtrack to its aesthetic to it starring Brandon Routh, ICK seems like a movie straight out of 2009. Whether that will make for a fun ride or a dud? Only time will tell, but early reviews seem positive.

Summer Games Fest Horror Highlights

E3 is dead and in its place Summer Games Fest has risen to take its place, with a bunch of horror games shown off that have caught our interest.

• End of Abyss: Cold horror fans rejoice, End of Abyss is a top down survival horror game from ex-Little Nightmare developers that sees you exploring some kind of underground facility.

• ILL Trailer: A first person horror game with a strong horror filmmaking pedigree - ILL’s developers (a team split across Canada and Armenia) have credits working on V/H/S/Beyond, Longlegs, and IT: Welcome to Derry and with some of the monster design going on in this trailer: it shows.

• Resident Evil Requiem: And of course we have the big guns, the first look at the next mainline Resident Evil game plus a release date announcement: February 27th, 2026.

Announcements

Announced Videos

• June 13th: Stepfather II (1989) KILL COUNT

• June 18th: Hot Saw Summer | Dead Meat Podcast

• June 19th: The Blackening (2022) KILL COUNT

• June 27th: Jurassic World Dominion (2022) KILL COUNT

Live Events

Want to see James Chelsea, Zoran, and more of the Dead Meat Team? Good news, they’ll be places! Here are some of the live events they’ll be attending this year.

• Vidcon - Anaheim, California on June 20th.

• Flashback Weekend - Chicago, Illinois on August 1st-3rd

• For The Love of Horror - Manchester, United Kingdom on October 18th-19th

New Merch

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Latest Videos

Zoran played his first public Game Livestream this week with The Midnight Walk, a gorgeous indie horror game designed in the style of stopmotion animation.

Then on Patreon, Zoran livestreamed episode 3 of The Walking Dead: A Telltale Series