Sam Raimi burst on the scene with Bruce Campbell in this snappy horror that trims all the fat and cuts to chase with the urgency of a pencil to the ankle. Evil Dead has a group of friends plan to have some fun in an old cabin that happens to have a book bound with… Read more »
George Romero, Dario Argento, and Tom Savini team up to make this zombie classic that is a sequel to a previous Scare-a-Day entry Night of the Living Dead. As far as zombie apocalypse plans go, heading to an abandoned shopping mall is not too shabby. You’ve got food, clothes, shelter and supplies. What could go… Read more »
Left 4 Dead and its sequel Left 4 Dead 2 gets you and 3 of your friends to venture out in various zombie infested areas with an assortment of firearms and melee weapons. Sounds simple enough, but when you consider the variety of zombies (I fear the witch and you should too) and the staggering… Read more »
There’s no escaping Night of the Living Dead‘s ghouls roaming the countryside. Not that you’ll have to run very fast or anything. These poor shambling living-deads will eventually make their way to you, unlike their track star modern incarnations who can sprint Usain Bolt style. Nope, these zombies will give you some time to sit… Read more »
Everyone loves and knows Resident Evil, but what sets this one apart from the others is its weird episodic format. Before each chapter, you are treated to a “Previously on Resident Evil….REVELATIONS.” The story falls inline with the others. Crazy Umbrella corp doing things they probably shouldn’t have been doing and you’re stuck cleaning up… Read more »
The Alien series, or as I like to call it,The Adventures of Fuzzy the Xenomorph, has been approached differently in each of its films with a varying degree of success. The first film, simply titled Alien, is an atmospheric smoldering film directed by Ridley Scott. Although I’m sure Bilbo Baggins, aka Ian Holm, begs to… Read more »
Gloom is a special game that caters to a special kind of folk. You see, players control a family of weirdos, and I mean that in the Addams Family and The Munsters sense of the word. However, the goal of the game is to make horrible things happen to members of your family while opposing… Read more »
Zombies are very much overdone, but when something gets it right, it’s downright satisfying. Each decision you make opens and closes a full tree of effects. The ripples of your decisions are immediately felt by the members in your party. It’s all real heavy stuff, but I swear it’s fun! Telltale Games have made their… Read more »
Camp Crystal Lake. It sounds like a pleasant enough place. Clear waters. Fresh nature air. A nice campfire with some s’mores and ghost stories. But if you’re a camp counselor, please, for the love of all things, keep an eye on the flailing kid in the water who clearly can’t swim. His mom is going… Read more »
“You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension: a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You’re moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You’ve just crossed over into… the Twilight Zone.” The Twilight Zone is creator Rod Serling’s… Read more »
