noiseredux Presents THE MONTH OF HORROR (2015) (remake)

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OH! A recommendation: For those who haven't played Cthulhu Saves The World, you should fix that. A super short, super charming 16-bit style RPG based on Lovecraft's mythos.

On a related note, those of you who have not played Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth (PC/Xbox) should do so. It is an incredibly intense first-person adventure/shooter/stealth/survival horror game, and I loved it. (It is even better if you read H.P. Lovecraft's Shadow over Innsmouth first, since the game is full of references to it.)

[Luke]

@luke, great picks!

Thanks Tekt. I forgot to add the House of the Dead collection for the Wii.

Would love to add RE4 for the wii to the list, but too much time would invested in it. Same with D2.

No goals on my end, I'm only looking forward to playing some horror themed games.

[Ack]

OH! A recommendation: For those who haven't played Cthulhu Saves The World, you should fix that. A super short, super charming 16-bit style RPG based on Lovecraft's mythos.

On a related note, those of you who have not played Call od Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth (PC/Xbox) should do so. It is an incredibly intense first-person adventure/shooter/stealth/survival horror game, and I loved it. (It is even better if you read H.P. Lovecraft's Shadow over Innsmouth first, since the game is full of references to it.)

Alternatively, you could also all check out Call of Cthulhu: Shadow of the Comet if you prefer your horror in point-and-click format.

Also, I just picked up a PS2. Thinking about Silent Hill, Haunting Ground, or Fatal Frame.

My suggestion would be Silent Hill 2 or 3 before the others if you haven't played them yet. If Haunting Ground appeals to you, there is also Clocktower 3, though it is significantly campier.

I always hear people praise Costume Quest - but aside from who made it, I know nothing about it. Is it an Android game?

There is a version of it that was released for Android, as well as PSN, Xbox Live, iOS, OS X, Linux, and Windows. It's an RPG based around Halloween, with kids donning costumes that effect their behavior in combat based on their perceptions of themselves in those costumes. Basically if you have a kid dressed as a knight, then she's wearing a badass suit of armor in combat. That kind of thing.

And Luke, I wish I could play my copy of D2, but for some reason it always freezes right after the video when you defeat the first boss. I don't know if it is my copy of the game or my Dreamcast that is the problem.

[Stark]

So maybe it should be Cthulu all the time and do all three of those!

[noiseredux]

So maybe it should be Cthulu all the time and do all three of those!

and watch Dagon (Shadow Over Innsmouth) and Call Of Cthulhu.

[TEKTORO]

Okay list compiled bunch of fun ones too (sarcasm).

What October games should I play, I probably can squeeze 10-15 of these in (or try to marathon them all). Are some stretching it too far and don't belong on this list let me know, also doesn't matter if I beat them before or not. Hate to just throw a list up and that's it, but I think it would be fun if you guys can have some input because I'm so indecisive and knowing me I'll probably jump around too much getting nothing done so this way if you suggest it I have more a reason to finish it. I can post some cool screenshots as well.

NES:
Castlevania & Simons Quest
Festers Quest
Immortal
Monster Party

Panasonic 3DO:
Alone in the Dark 1 & 2
Casper
Corpse Killer
"D"
Doom
Escape From Monster Manor
Hell: A Cyberpunk Thriller
Killing Time
Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes
Night Trap

PS Vita/PS TV:
Army Corps of Hell
Castlevania Dracula X Chronicles/ Symphony of the Night
Dead Head Fred
Deception IV: Blood Ties
Dino Crisis 1,2
Echo Night
Home-Unique Horror Adventure
Lone Survivor DC
Obscure Aftermath
Persona 2 Eternal Punishment
Persona 4 Golden
Shadow Tower
Silent Hill Book of Memories
Tokyo Twilight Ghost Hunters
Ultimate Ghost N Goblins
Virtues Last Reward

Original Xbox:
Manhunt
Stubbs the Zombie Rebel without a pulse

Xbox 360: (Arcade, Indies)
Alan Wake
Aliens Colonial Marines
Alone in the Dark (5?)
ApocZ
Area 51 Blacksite
Bioshock 1,2
BloodRayne: Betrayal
Breath of Death VII
Brutal Legend
BulletWitch
Catherine
Castlevania Lords of Shadows 1,2
Costume Quest
Cthulhu Saves the World
Darkness
Dark Sector
Dantes Inferno
Dead Island GOTY, Riptide & Escape Dead Island
Deadly Premonition
Dead Rising 1,2
Dead Space 1,2,3
Decap Attack via Sonic UGC
Doom BFG
F.E.A.R 1,2,3 & Lost Files
Hellboy The Science of Evil
I Maed a Gam3 W1th Z0mb1es!!!1
Killer is Dead
Left 4 Dead 1,2
Lollipop Chainsaw
Monster Madness Battle for Suburbia
Never Dead
Operation Darkness
Red Dead Redemption Undead Nightmare
Resident Evil 5,6, Revelations, Operation Raccoon City
Saw 1,2
Shadows of the Damned
Silent Hill Downpour
Silent Hill Homecoming
Splatterhouse (new one plus has 1,2,3)
Vampire Rage
Walking Dead Survival Instinct
Zombie Apocalypse
Zombie Shotgun Massacre 1,2

[noiseredux]

awesome list! I'm not sure how I forgot to mention Castlevanias, but yeah I'll boot up 1, 2, or 3 I'm sure. And maybe fire up Night Trap. Maybe one of the Bloodrayne games. Which reminds me, I was considering checking out the Blair Witch games too. Hmm.

Tekky, have you played Symphony Of The Night? You have, right? Cuz if not you're missing one of the best things ever in life... ever.

[mjmjr25]

Is dsh doing a game thread too or is everything going to be compiled in this thread.

Also, cool banner in the OP. Awesome that menothgrafx got double billing.

[Ack]

Popcorn

This is a slasher film...but it contains elements of a supernatural horror as well as tongue-in-cheek self-reflection that was pretty popular in 1990s horror movies. Here a film class hosts a cheesy horror movie marathon in an old theater, but there is a killer walking among them, one who wants payback over a mishap that happened fifteen years before during a very avant-garde film performance in which a Charles Mansion-esque cult leader who liked making shitty wannabe Warhol movies tried to kill his wife and daughter on stage right before the theater burned down. But all is not what it appears to be.

Unfortunately for Popcorn, it approaches meta but then never crosses the line into actually owning up to it. Sure, it's full of references to horror films from the 1950s and '60s, but it never examines the slasher tropes that it adheres to in the same way beyond the silliness of the lead villain(who is wonderfully playful and an absolute blast to watch). It's not a bad movie, but unfortunately it never gets to where it could have been a great movie either. And yet, I still really enjoyed watching it. Not just because of how it loves the old William Castle-style B-movies that I enjoyed watching as a kid, but because it also understands how much I like to laugh at them too. And then it adds a great villain who keeps me laughing.

...hmm. You know what? That might be where Popcorn really succeeds. It has me laughing at the old and remembering what I love about it and then goes on and has me laugh at what was the "new" trend too, as if to say that all of these kinds of horror movies are ok to mock but also to enjoy. The slasher had to follow the others, but it's all ultimately the same kind of thing, and all ultimately just as enjoyable.

I look forward to the start of the real marathon.

[noiseredux]

Popcorn was one I always wanted to see as a kid. That poster art is just amazing. And then when I finally saw it in my 20's I was like, "oh yeah. It's kind of good." It is fun, though. But yeah never really hits its mark. It's not bad, but not great. It's something to watch but not really recommend to anyone haha.