Funko Games announced Rear Window, a new board game based on Alfred Hitchcock’s classic thriller, for release in summer 2022.
This new board game brings the suspense and paranoia of Hitchcock’s masterpiece to the tabletop. Rear Window is an Academy Award-winning 1954 American thriller, directed by Hitchcock, that was based on Cornell Woolrich’s 1942 short story “It Had to Be Murder.” The film is about a photographer, played by Jimmy Stewart, who uses a wheelchair and looks out into a courtyard from his Manhattan apartment to get a sense of what the neighbors are doing. Soon, his paranoia manages to wrap him and his socialite girlfriend, played by Grace Kelly, up into a plot for murder involving Lars Thorwald (Perry Mason’s Raymond Burr).
In the board game, players follow along with the general essence of the movie by observing strange clues and patterns of things going on in the apartments across the courtyard. They will attempt to detect a murder in the midst of all of the parties, bickering, and other events occurring. This is a cooperative game that features all of the suspense and tension of the film.
Rear Window is for three to five players, ages 13 and up, and will retail for $34.99.
Funko Games also recently announced E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial: Light Years From Home Game, a new board game (see “‘E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial’“).
Source: ICv2
