The Man
Search results
People also ask
Who is the director of the quarry?
Who are the developers of the quarry 2022 video game?
Is the quarry a horror movie?
Is 'the quarry' too much horror?
Is 'the quarry' a good horror game?
When does 'the quarry' come out?
The Quarry is a 2022 interactive drama horror game developed by Supermassive Games and published by 2K. Players assume control of nine teenage counselors who must survive their last night at Hackett's Quarry summer camp amongst supernatural creatures and violent locals.
The Quarry (Video Game 2022) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
- Overview
- A passion for horror
- A darker picture
- The power of friendship
- Star-studded slasher
- Rocky road
- Get daily insight, inspiration and deals in your inbox
News
By Rhys Wood
last updated 13 June 2022
Horror comes home
(Image credit: 2K)
“I've watched a lot of horror. I mean, a lot of horror,” The Quarry’s creative director Will Byles says. “Probably way too much, and I have done since I was a kid. My sister used to make me watch horror films with her [laughs].”
“So basically it's a playable teen horror,” Byles says, giving me The Quarry’s elevator pitch. “It's a traditional teen horror, in fact actually quite an archetypal or cliched teen horror. Everyone can live, everyone can die, as you play them through the game. If you die, you stay dead. You don't get better.”
The double meaning of the title also hints at what you’re getting into. “The quarry itself is a place called Hackett's Quarry,” he states, “and it's a really evocative place to set a horror. Quarry also means 'the hunted' or that which is hunted, is the prey, so once the game gets going, you realize they are also the quarry.”
Supermassive Games might be best known for Until Dawn, but it’s also behind The Dark Pictures anthology – one-shot stories exploring different horror subgenres.
Oddly, these dives down different avenues of the horrific impacted The Quarry’s development in a more technical way than you might expect. “We've been making The Dark Pictures for a number of years since Until Dawn,” Byles explains, “And with Until Dawn we had to write in Excel sheets because there wasn't the software to do it.
Almost as far back as the first slasher movies, teens have been put in the role of the hunted. Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Black Christmas, and Halloween, all see young people being hunted down and murdered by some cold, adult figure. There’s something about this stage, no longer child, not yet adult, that makes teenagers an excellent lens to explore bigger themes, in the case of The Quarry, Supermassive wanted a story that delves into the tests of friendships.
The Quarry “is really scary,” Byles says, “but it's also got a degree of lightness to it. More than anything it’s about relationships. It's about how those things work under pressure.”
Byles is excited to examine how we play roles with our friends and what there is underneath all that. “There's a thing where people start off with this kind of facade of the thing that they portray and they retract outwards,” Byles explains.
“That's the persona they give, but if you start to knock away at it, with fear, danger, injury, and potentially death, all of those [acts] start to fall away and then a true person comes out. So I really wanted to look at what the truth is in people as much as possible.”
It’s in the demonstration of those facades slipping where The Quarry’s cast shine. As Byles hints, each of The Quarry’s main characters appear shallow at first introduction, as if they’re putting on a facade.
Jacob, for example, starts out as the archetypal jock. Confident, bullish and a little crass. As the threats ramp up, though, Jacob is shown to actually be quite emotionally intelligent, and clearly cares about the friends he’s surrounded himself with.
“I'm always amazed at how lovely they are,” Byles says, talking about working with the likes of David Arquette, Brenda Song, Lance Henriksen and Justice Smith. “You hear stories about actors being prima donnas but they were just super lovely.”
In a sign that games like Until Dawn and The Dark Pictures anthology are finding a wide audience, a number of the cast came to Supermassive, not the other way around. “A bunch of them were actually asking to be in the games, and they're obsessed,” Byles reveals. “Miles Robbins, who plays Dylan, is absolutely obsessed with Until Dawn. Siobhan Williams, who plays Laura, says everybody in that kind of age group really gets it, because they've seen stuff like it and they play stuff like it, and they're part of that.
“Zach Tinker plays Jacob. He's kind of the ‘douche’ character. The jock. He was so energetic, super energetic, and he wanted to do all of his own stunts. And so we let him!
“There's a bit where he's been chased by a monster and he's running around, skidding around, and [he] fell on the floor. Anyway, he walked off a little bit quietly, and it turns out he’d literally broken his thumb. But, bless him, he just carried on.”
As is the case with many AAA games released over the last couple of years, development of The Quarry certainly wasn’t without its challenges. “The hard thing I think, really, was Covid. It was really difficult to get out into America,” Byles says. “We had to do an awful lot of work with the American Embassy to get out there because no one from Europe was allowed in America at all.
“The Screen Actors Guild of America are super strict about [this], and this was all pre-vaccine. So everyone was tested every day. I had to wear three masks on set. I had to wear a cloth mask, an N95 mask and a shield every time I went near an actor. So I couldn’t breathe [laughs].”
Get the hottest deals available in your inbox plus news, reviews, opinion, analysis and more from the TechRadar team.
Contact me with news and offers from other Future brandsReceive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors
- Rhys Wood
- Abigail Blyg – Voiced by Ariel Winter. Abigail is a shy and occasionally awkward camp counselor who seemingly aspires to be an artist. Though reserved, she is generally well-respected and loved by her friends.
- Bobby Hackett – Voiced by Ethan Suplee. Bobby Hackett is a large and powerful man who lives in the woods with the rest of his family. Though he doesn’t seem particularly vindictive, he is clearly dangerous, especially when one of his brothers is telling him what to do.
- Chris Hackett – Voiced by David Arquette. Chris is the owner and operator of Hackett’s Quarry summer camp. He’s pretty intense about everyone having the proper summer camp experience, but most of the counselors see him as someone to look up to.
- Constance Hackett – Voiced by Lin Shaye. The matron of the Hackett family also plays a motherly role to the various camp counselors. However, many of the counselors suspect there is a darker side to her often gentle ways.
Sep 2, 2022 · The director of Supermassive Games’ latest interactive narrative-driven horror title The Quarry and 2015’s Until Dawn has already started sharing details on his next title.
- Francis Kenna
Jun 12, 2022 · 'The Quarry' and 'Until Dawn' director Will Byles, of Supermassive Games, talks about playing within the horror genre.
The Quarry: Directed by Will Byles. With Siobhan Williams, Skyler Gisondo, Ted Raimi, Grace Zabriskie. When the sun goes down on the last night of summer camp, nine teenage counselors are plunged into an unpredictable night of horror.
