The Quarry, the latest release from horror game studio Supermassive Games, opens with a truck driving along a winding forest road in the dead of night. Between overhead shots of the vehicle's headlights cutting through its inky surroundings, the camera cuts to speed along the edge of the woods, fast and low to the ground, from the perspective of some presumably supernatural hunter. This shot replicates the famous 'shaky cam' effect employed in Sam Raimi's Evil Dead films, mimicking the point of view of the movie's demon as it scans the woodlands for victims to terrorize and possess. Later in The Quarry, a character's hand will be severed above the wrist with a chainsaw that has 'Groovy' written on one edge. Horrible secrets lie beneath creaky wooden trapdoors. Ted Raimi shows up as a character. Supermassive is pretty clearly a fan of Raimi's work. In a timely coincidence, Evil Dead: The Game'a release that, as its name implies, provides the latest Kandarian dagger stab at a playable...
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