I just want to preface this by saying that I've never watched this movie, and I won't. I've also never had an IMDb account or made a review before until now, because that's how much I'm nauseated by this. You can call me a purist or snob all you want, that's fine. But....BUT....This is going on a long list of Video Game-to-Film movies that are bad. I'm tired of people basing their movies off of previous existing content, completely changing the story, and then expecting people to like it.
TLDR: The movie plot is nothing like the game series it's based on, and the games' story is WAY BETTER. Just imagine the way Avatar The Last Airbender fans cringed when they thought of the movie based on the series, and that's how this would make any DreadOut fan feel.
DreadOut is one of my favorite horror game series I've played (yes I'm well aware of the existence of Silent Hill games, Resident Evil, and whatnot). Let it be known that I'm about to spoil the plot for the series for anyone who cares, but it's important to my point I'm making. It's a great story about a class of students who are tricked into traveling to this cursed town (almost like it's trapped in a pocket dimension belonging to the dead), where the teacher secretly made a pact with nyi blorong (snake demon lady, look it up on the internet) to sacrifice the students so she can become a god and she already has crazy ghost/demon summoning powers. In the first game, all the students except for Linda get abducted by malevolent spirits (a beautiful showcase of various scary spooks from indonesian/malaysian/thai culture), and either get killed or possessed. Linda, in a game style similar to fatal frame, has to use her wits and eventual discovered exorcising powers and cell phone to escape. In the end of game 1, she does escape the school but you're left with many questions about what happens afterwards.
In DreadOut Keepers of the Dark is not really a full sequel, but gives some interesting background information about Lady Siska (the teacher/antagonist) and Linda's connection while delivering more scary spook bosses. It shows Linda still trying to escape from the evil magic from game 1, and if you beat the final boss you find out how she finally does rather than the cliffhanger ending from game 1.
In DreadOut 2, we find out that after Linda escaped the cursed town, she returned to her normal life and attempted to go back to school. But she found that she continued to be haunted by horrifying visions and having to fight off malevolent spirits/demons, as well as anyone else around her becoming possessed or attacked. She becomes a feared/hated pariah as the people around her blame her for the disappearance of her classmates (assuming she killed them, including the "missing" teacher). While Linda struggles to maintain her sanity and just trying to survive, through a series of events (once again connected to Siska) she discovers some dark secrets about her past, her childhood, and the truth about her exorcising gifts and destiny. Without going into the WHOLE spiel of that, basically she once again has to fight a whole showcase of cool spooks again, kicks some serious butt, and hunts down Siska to avenge her classmates and stop her evil plans once and for all. She slaps Siska back to last week, and even though she will never fully be free from being haunted by spirits, she can finally find peace knowing her friends souls are free and she's not being hunted by a crazy witch lady.
NOW THEN, doesn't this sound WAY MORE AWESOME than a stupid plot about teenagers wanting to get popular on the internet, and break into an apartment to do so?
TLDR: The movie plot is nothing like the game series it's based on, and the games' story is WAY BETTER. Just imagine the way Avatar The Last Airbender fans cringed when they thought of the movie based on the series, and that's how this would make any DreadOut fan feel.
DreadOut is one of my favorite horror game series I've played (yes I'm well aware of the existence of Silent Hill games, Resident Evil, and whatnot). Let it be known that I'm about to spoil the plot for the series for anyone who cares, but it's important to my point I'm making. It's a great story about a class of students who are tricked into traveling to this cursed town (almost like it's trapped in a pocket dimension belonging to the dead), where the teacher secretly made a pact with nyi blorong (snake demon lady, look it up on the internet) to sacrifice the students so she can become a god and she already has crazy ghost/demon summoning powers. In the first game, all the students except for Linda get abducted by malevolent spirits (a beautiful showcase of various scary spooks from indonesian/malaysian/thai culture), and either get killed or possessed. Linda, in a game style similar to fatal frame, has to use her wits and eventual discovered exorcising powers and cell phone to escape. In the end of game 1, she does escape the school but you're left with many questions about what happens afterwards.
In DreadOut Keepers of the Dark is not really a full sequel, but gives some interesting background information about Lady Siska (the teacher/antagonist) and Linda's connection while delivering more scary spook bosses. It shows Linda still trying to escape from the evil magic from game 1, and if you beat the final boss you find out how she finally does rather than the cliffhanger ending from game 1.
In DreadOut 2, we find out that after Linda escaped the cursed town, she returned to her normal life and attempted to go back to school. But she found that she continued to be haunted by horrifying visions and having to fight off malevolent spirits/demons, as well as anyone else around her becoming possessed or attacked. She becomes a feared/hated pariah as the people around her blame her for the disappearance of her classmates (assuming she killed them, including the "missing" teacher). While Linda struggles to maintain her sanity and just trying to survive, through a series of events (once again connected to Siska) she discovers some dark secrets about her past, her childhood, and the truth about her exorcising gifts and destiny. Without going into the WHOLE spiel of that, basically she once again has to fight a whole showcase of cool spooks again, kicks some serious butt, and hunts down Siska to avenge her classmates and stop her evil plans once and for all. She slaps Siska back to last week, and even though she will never fully be free from being haunted by spirits, she can finally find peace knowing her friends souls are free and she's not being hunted by a crazy witch lady.
NOW THEN, doesn't this sound WAY MORE AWESOME than a stupid plot about teenagers wanting to get popular on the internet, and break into an apartment to do so?