Behavior Interactive, the Canadian studio responsible for Dead by Daylight, anticipated at the end of last year that the title would have more surprising collaborations in the future. No sooner said than done. The company has just revealed with the teaser trailer inserted under this paragraph that Nicolas Cage will be a character in the asymmetric horror game; They will give more details on July 5.
“It’s the performance of a lifetime,” the studio says in the video’s YouTube description. Nicolas Cage, recognized for roles such as Leaving Las Vegas and Adaptation. The orchid thief is a veteran and prolific actor who has participated both in critical successes and in films that did not even make it to the big screen, as well as in adaptations of multiple sagas.
Cage’s presence in Dead by Daylight is due to all this, and also to his extensive career in horror productions, good or bad, classic or recent, such as Vampire Kisses, Mandy, Color Out of Space, Willy’s Wonderland and Wicker Man. The actor has become a benchmark, almost a meme, in genre cinema.
From homage to home of the slasher monsters
Behavior Interactive’s asymmetric horror game began in 2016 as an adaptation to the slasher controls, from movies like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Scream. But it has ended up becoming a title with characters from all those sagas. In fact, when entering their official website, they present themselves as “the only game where the best horror sagas collide.”
Thus, although it has its own universe with developed characters and monsters (especially in blog articles), the list of monsters from other sagas is extensive: Michael Myers (Halloween), Freddy Kreuger (A Nightmare on Elm Street), Amanda Young (Saw ), Pyramid Head (Silent Hill), Nemesis (Resident Evil), Sadako (The Ring)…
That’s why I wasn’t too surprised when this March the production companies Atomic Monster (James Wan) and Blumhouse (Jason Blum) announced that Dead by Daylight will have its own movie.
