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But when the series shifted its focus from suspense to all-out combat against dark forces, it foundered. Lovecraft it was based upon, Alone in the Dark generated suspense from the gradual immersion of its hero into a disturbing world of eldritch mystery just below the surface of everyday reality. To me the original survival horror game was Alone in the Dark, released in 1992. But even Dead Space 2 does not appear as photorealistic as film. The one that probably stands the greatest chance of making you nauseous these days is Dead Space 2, which features “human (and once-human) offal as an acceptable form of set decoration,” as I put it earlier. With advances in graphics, games are catching up in the gross-out department. The gross-out quotient is maximized when it looks like real people are suffering, and live-action film simply looks more realistic than any game.īut have no fear (as it were). With their masterly makeup, their real human actors and their special effects, the top torture-porn films, like those in the “Saw” series, depict mutilation, dismemberment, beheadings and the complete violation of the human body with a fidelity unmatched by the goriest video games. When it comes to visual disgust, there is no question that horror movies completely out-GOQ video games.

Horror has not been as important to the video game industry as a reliable moneymaker as it has been for Hollywood in recent decades, yet if anything, the scariest games have become at least as terrifying as the likes of “Paranormal Activity 3,” the new hit horror film.

It also features this deliciously obvious bon mot: “Man, these birds are really angry!”īut scary entertainment is rarely so tame. “Birds of Anger” basically mashes up Angry Birds (which has now been downloaded more than 400 million times) with Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds,” to both disturbing and comic effect. The G4 network recently released short original horror films based on three innocuous video games, Angry Birds, Duck Hunt and Mario Kart. The gross-out quotient, or GOQ (pronounced “gawk”), involves blood and organs but can also include zombies and other general putridity. is the knowledge that something horrible and disturbing is about to happen. The creeping dread factor - let’s call it C.D.F. Dread is primarily psychological gross-outs are mostly visual. The two major elements of modern horror entertainment seem to be the creeping dread factor and the gross-out quotient. But I can certainly appreciate the craft and talent involved in making commercial entertainment out of fear. So as Halloween approaches, I’ll confess that I’ve never particularly enjoyed being scared.

The film’s images of dogs bursting into pustulant monsters was quite another. The formless, imaginary grue was one thing. The depiction of an Antarctic base falling victim to a doppelgänger didn’t just scare me.

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(Activision committed a kindness by including the full original Zork as a hidden Easter egg in the top-selling game of 2010, Call of Duty: Black Ops.)Īround the same time I was dying to grues, the summer of 1982, my older stepbrother somehow sneaked me into my first horror movie, John Carpenter’s “Thing” starring Kurt Russell. A minute later I was dead, having “walked into the slavering fangs of a lurking grue,” as the game so eloquently put it. But if you’re 9, and your concept of a video game has mostly entailed Pong, Pac-Man and Space Invaders, this is serious stuff. Of course Zork isn’t particularly frightening.