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Killing Floor’s Freak Friendly Summer Extravaganza Opens June 30th
Cooperative PC shooter Killing Floor is getting another seasonal update just in time to celebrate Summer. Why I ask, would you go out in the sun where you could so easily get cancer, or go swimming where your chances of drowning nearly double when you could instead sit inside playing video games? When indoors your chances of being raped, murdered, or catching an incurable case of herpes are cut by almost 200%! And all that info is based off an article I just read on the Internet titled Killing Floor’s Freak Friendly Summer Extravaganza Opens June 30th, so you know it’s true.
Killing Floor’s next free update, the Summer Sideshow event, will run from June 30th to July 22nd and will bring with it a brand spanking new map called the Abusement Park. This freaky funfair is infested with all sorts of creepy creatures, including the Two-Headed Girl, Bearded Lady, and the Fleshclown (incidentally, that last one is also the name of my [CENSORED]). There are also a handful of new Steampunk character skins, and if you’re able to get 10 of the 13 new achievements you’ll unlock a special Steampunk Mr. Foster.
“She’s mine, and I’m hers.”
The prison movie is a cornerstone of the cinematic landscape. Often adjacent to horror, there’s something inherently horrific about a building full of “convicts” jockeying for power. Criminal masterminds and the wrongfully convicted alike become pawns in a dehumanizing system and struggle to stay alive in the restrictive environment. Claire Denis pushes this genre to its outer limits with sci-fi and horror elements comparing incarceration to the prison of the human body. Her 2018 film High Life follows a group of prisoners turned astronauts who struggle to retain their humanity after the world has cast them out.
When we first meet Monte (Robert Pattinson), he’s raising a toddler on an isolated space station in the galaxy’s outer reaches. His daughter Willow was conceived through assault by fellow inmate Dr. Dibs (Juliette Binoche) as a part of her mission to reproduce in space. As Denis unpacks the story of this troubled crew, they slowly realize they have been discarded and forgotten. Some find freedom to enact their violent agendas while others try to retain a semblance of normalcy in the extreme environment. Essentially guinea pigs, Monte and his crewmates hurtle through space and grope for a reason to keep existing.
The Lady Killers continue Killer Moms Month with Claire Denis’ beautifully complex film. Co-hosts Jenn Adams, Mae Shults, Rocco T. Thompson, and Sammie Kuykendall chart the mysteries of the cosmos in their quest to understand the glacial plot. They’ll chat about screaming babies, space gardens, black holes and spaghetti along with heavier themes like reproduction and bodily autonomy. Why is Dr. Dibbs so obsessed with pregnancy? Why doesn’t Monte partake of the sex box? Does Mia Goth actually have a big booty and what really happened on that spaceship filled with dogs? They’ll approach the black hole and try to withstand spaghettification while zeroing in on the unpleasant themes of this exceptional film.
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