On Saturday, Niantic and The Pokémon Company held the finale for Pokémon Go’s huge Go Fest 2022 occasion, which spanned three months and culminated in gamers having access to the cell recreation’s Ultra Beasts. In the lead as much as the finale, the oldsters behind Pokémon Go began hyping the occasion up with a sequence of horror-tinged, discovered footage-style shorts that includes these Ultra Beasts. While there’s solely about 90 seconds of footage in complete, the shorts make a compelling argument for a Cloverfield-style Pokémon horror sequence or movie — as a result of who wouldn’t be terrified to see a hive of Buzzwole rising from Seattle’s Space Needle?

For Pokémon followers who haven’t seen the shorts but, they’re extraordinarily properly carried out. One reveals the Ultra Beast Nihilego quietly chilling at nighttime in a Tokyo underpass, with a later video revealing a large swarm of Nihilego taking to the skies. Footage from a Berlin visitors digicam reveals the Ultra Beast Pheromosa sprinting by the streets, practically invisible to the human eye. The finest — and most terrifying — footage reveals a Xurkitree draining the electrical energy from a Japanese workplace constructing, and attacking a person filming its feast.

Will The Pokémon Company ever make a feature-length model of those terrifying Pokémon tales? Unlikely. The firm appears content material with family-friendly Detective Pikachu-style fare with the property, and it’s laborious to fault it for that. But hopefully we’ll get one thing extra substantial in his vein sooner or later, even when just for subsequent 12 months’s Go Fest occasion. Pokémon Go nonetheless has loads of Ultra Beasts so as to add, in any case, together with probably the most terrifying certainly one of all: Blacephalon.