Tag Archives: video games

New millennium horrorthon

Posted on July 21, 2015 by Daniel

Fiction and video game adaptations, slashers, witches, zombies…here’s a mish-mosh of crap from the first decade of the 2000s. RIDING THE BULLET (2004) Based on a Stephen King novella, Riding the Bullet will really only work for you if you … Continue reading →

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Dead Rising – Jesse Metcalfe looks tasty….

Posted on March 30, 2015 by Daniel

Adorable Jesse Metcalfe, zombies, and one of my favorite video game franchises? You sucked me in, Crackle! Dead Rising: Watchtower is a Crackle original. If you don’t know what Crackle is, it’s a free streaming service with a catch. Commercials. … Continue reading →

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The Last of Us isn’t your standard survival horror game

Posted on March 16, 2015 by Daniel

In The Last of Us, you’re a man (who looks exactly like Dylan McDermott with a beard) on a mission to protect a girl (who looks and sounds exactly like Ellen Page) during the zombie apocalypse. And therefore, it’s much … Continue reading →

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Trash time! Which ones are worth a watch?

Posted on March 11, 2015 by Daniel

Killer nun. Killer kids. Video game turned CGI movie. Ghosts in an apartment. Religious possession. Mothman in a mirror. And… a killer vase on a plane? I’ve assembled my own little version of one of those 8-pack DVDs you can … Continue reading →

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Bite Me – the perfect zombedy series for zombie geeks!

Posted on March 7, 2014 by Daniel

Bite Me is like Shaun of the Dead meets The Big Bang Theory. It’s a webseries, but if you watch the episodes straight through, it feels just like a movie. I checked out season 1 (about 40 minutes) and season … Continue reading →

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Zombie horses and mutant sea monsters!

Posted on January 8, 2014 by Daniel

It’s amazing how many zombie video games there are. Even when video game companies want to cash in by just tossing zombies into popular series that have nothing to do with horror, I totally get sucked in. That’s why I … Continue reading →

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Mindless zombie shooting video game set in the Yakuza universe

Posted on December 30, 2013 by Daniel

I know absolutely nothing about the Yakuza video game franchise, but once they put zombies in the mix, I was so there. Hell, I didn’t even care about the storyline while playing Yakuza: Dead Souls. And you really don’t have … Continue reading →

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The high point in the Alone in the Dark video game series

Posted on November 25, 2013 by Daniel

So this is how it goes. Infogrames created a groundbreaking 3D survival horror game in 1992, about a couple of people stuck in a mansion full of monsters. While Infogrames went on to create 2 sequels that made the game … Continue reading →

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Saw and Saw II: the torture porn of survival horror video games

Posted on November 4, 2013 by Daniel

I’ve always been a fan of a good spanking, but I must be more hardcore than I realized to take the punishment the Saw video games administer. Why would I have expected anything less from games based on a movie … Continue reading →

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Fatal Frame 4: the most Asian horror installment yet

Posted on August 18, 2013 by Daniel

For reasons no one knows (that could only be idiotic reasons), Nintendo refused to release Fatal Frame 4: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse in the U.S. So in order to play it, I had to import the game from Japan … Continue reading →

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