‘Game Over’ Closes Dead Northern With a Killer Video Game

A supposedly lethal video game, an unexplained death and a demon waiting behind the screen will close out Dead Northern Horror Film Festival this month as Carlos Marín’s Game Over receives its UK premiere in York.

The Mexican horror feature screens at City Screen Picturehouse on Sunday 27 September, taking the festival into its final slot with a story built around one of horror’s most enduring modern anxieties: what happens when an urban legend turns out to be real.

Game Over follows Rebeca, a young woman investigating the mysterious death of her sister. Her search for answers leads her towards an unlicensed video game surrounded by an increasingly disturbing myth, with players said to die after attempting it. Determined to discover what really happened, Rebeca decides to play the game herself and is forced into a confrontation with the entity at its centre.

Marín makes his feature debut with the film and co-wrote the screenplay alongside Sofia Katya Narro. The cast includes Samantha Acuña, Carla Adell and Costanza Andrade, with Juan Pablo de Santiago and Jatzke Fainsod also among the performers attached to the project.

The film was produced by Guadalajara-based Pulsar Films, the company founded in 2020 by Albert Pons and Luis Bohigas. Development was supported through FILMA Jalisco alongside private investment, with the production conceived as a calling card for the company’s ambitions within genre cinema.

From its earliest stages, the project was built around internet horror folklore and the idea of creepypasta bleeding into the real world. An earlier version of the story centred on an eighties game called Goggi The Guest, whose fatal reputation draws a group of characters into a search that develops into something closer to a road movie, combining suspense, gore and monster horror.

The production also put considerable emphasis on the creature itself. Pons has previously said that one of the most demanding aspects of the six-week shoot was creating a monster that could stand up to international genre competition. The film was shot using an ARRI Alexa 35 with Zeiss Prime lenses, while makeup effects were supervised and designed by Gabriel Solana.

For Dead Northern, Game Over provides a suitably high-concept finish to a weekend already spanning folk horror, found footage, creature features and independent British genre work.

Game Over receives its UK premiere as the closing film of Dead Northern Horror Film Festival at City Screen Picturehouse, York, on Sunday 27 September 2026 at 9.15pm.

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Game Over trailer