One of Dead by Daylight’s greatest strengths as a collaborative IP is its ability to marry original content with licensed content, inviting fans from every nook and cranny of horror. This has led to fantastic crossovers for killer and survivor characters such as Saw’s Pig or Stranger Things’ Steve Harrington, while it has also been wonderful for inventive cosmetics like Blight’s William Birkin skin inspired by the Resident Evil 2 remake. In this regard, Dead by Daylight has earned itself an unending longevity so long as it can obtain IP licenses for collaboration.
This premise seems to have recently opened itself up tenfold with the news that Atomic Monster Productions and Blumhouse are producing a Dead by Daylight movie. Dead by Daylight has infinite cinematic potential with its original content alone, and that only goes further if Blumhouse and Atomic Monster are able to integrate horror licenses into it. This will be fantastic for Dead by Daylight’s longevity regardless and expose it to an even larger audience, but Behaviour Interactive should also take this as an opportunity to produce collaborative cosmetics from inspired Blumhouse horror movies.
The Purge as a Legion Skin
Having a skin inspired by The Purge seems simple enough as cosmetic for Legion, since they're already wearing casual attire and expressive face masks. Legion wields a knife and sprints at survivors, which is also essentially as close as it gets to a killer from one of the early installments of The Purge, particularly the ones who appear at the Sandin residence in the original movie.
However, Dead by Daylight could use this as an opportunity to include Legion skins that reflect any of The Purge’s five entries, if not its two-season television series or upcoming sixth entry. The Purge’s protagonists who flee from otherwise ordinary citizens are less interesting or aesthetically remarkable, though Dead by Daylight could include survivor skins from the franchise as well.
The Invisible Man as a Wraith Skin
The Invisible Man’s premise is great because it balances a tightrope of wondering whether protagonist Cecilia Kass is imagining that her ex-boyfriend has made himself invisible and is stalking her, or if she is actually correct in her assumption. The latter proves to be true as her psychotic, wealthy ex has devised a suit that can render itself completely transparent using optics engineering. Dead by Daylight fans already know that this character and his black optics suit would be a fantastic skin for Dead by Daylight killer Wraith, who rings a bell to become invisible himself.
M3GAN as a Twins Skin
M3GAN’s premise will not be wholly unfamiliar to horror fans who know Chucky from Child’s Play, but it manages to pave out an original story that feels confidently more modern than recent attempts at a Child’s Play reboot. M3GAN is instead oriented toward a young female demographic, and the titular doll is much more acrobatic and gymnastic due to being played by an actual girl.
There is currently only one killer character in Dead by Daylight who would be close enough to this doll in terms of physicality, and that is the Twins’ Victor Deshayes. Unfortunately, the Twins is already such a niche character where Victor detaches from his conjoined twin, Charlotte, and there would be no substitution available for Charlotte in a M3GAN skin. However, if Blumhouse’s collaboration with Dead by Daylight was to introduce new characters, M3GAN herself could be an exciting new killer.
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