Did you like that? Watch This: Four Horror Movies For Horror Game Fans

A few weeks ago, we posted a detailed roundup of the horror games we think you should be playing this Halloween season. But without any trick or treating this year, you will have a lot of extra time on your hands to freak out. Lucky for you Game informer is always here to help. Instead of suggesting horror video games for you to play, this time we are here to discuss some horror movies that we think you should watch if you like things that play at night.

Did you like Friday the 13th: The Game? check Outdoor camp

It would be too easy to recommend a Friday the 13th movie here. Instead, you should see the criminally undervalued Outdoor camp. Released in 1983 by director Robert Hiltzik, Outdoor camp tells the story of Angela Baker and her stay at Camp Arawak. Angela doesn’t quite fit in and is often bullied by older kids at camp, or worse, tries to get taken advantage of by the adults running the camp. Remarkably, however, all of these people die in very, very horrible ways.

Of many ways, Outdoor camp It’s your ordinary slasher movie. A lot of kids get in trouble, die horribly, and it’s all pretty cheesy and misinterpreted. And you could discuss some of the content in Outdoor camp hasn’t aged gracefully for 2020 sensitivities (maybe refer to Does the dog die? before looking). On the other hand, there is the ambition of Outdoor camp that distinguishes it from other slashers. Dating in 1983, during the deluge of slashers trying to cash in on the 1978 hit Hallowe’en, Outdoor camp try to tell a story about being trapped in your own body and feeling uncomfortable in your own skin. As Bartłomiej Paszylk wrote, is an “exceptionally bad movie but a very good slasher.” In recent years, the film has gained a huge following and has even received critical re-evaluation.

Yes or no Outdoor camp all of that is up to the viewer, but it’s an admirable attempt to do something smarter with a rather boring genre. Interestingly, Hiltzik has only made two films: Sleepaway Camp and the one from 2008. Return to Sleepaway Camp, one of the many films in the series. Hiltzik, who is a New York City attorney these days, was allegedly unaware that the film had a following until he was approached to record a comment on it in 2000.

The hook of Outdoor camp, and what his fans always mention, is his shocking ending. And for good reason. It is tremendously shocking. I won’t spoil it here, but the sound has only bothered me since I first saw the movie. Count me among the biggest fans of this exceptionally bad but very good slasher movie.

Did you like Outlast? check Noroi: the curse

A dime a dozen and even overpriced, found imaging media is everywhere these days. It’s relatively inexpensive to produce, easy to fill with frights, and easy to fit bodies onto seats. But there are some standouts, like the godfathers of the genre, The Blair Witch Project and Cannibal holocaust. There’s also Noroi: the curse, which came out in 2005, two years before the first Paranormal activity opened the genre wide.

This once-hard-to-find horror movie outside of Japan is less of a found-footage movie and more of a scrapbook of different events strung together to tell a kind of cohesive plot. Using “real” found footage and that from news broadcasts, live shows, and old documentary footage, Mud tells the story of Masafumi Kobayashi, a paranormal investigator who has since disappeared after his house caught fire, as he investigates the paranormal events in Tokyo and how they are connected. Everything is going very bad for Kobayashi.

Mud it is never overtly scary. Believe in your story enough to allow fear to bubble through your viewer, creeping and building a slow burn before your final climax. He’s also not afraid of being gloomy. The movie never lets go of you, never gives you a moment of brevity, it always keeps you under the surface with it. If you’re not tired of found-footage movies, give this one a try. It’s a genuinely unique take on the genre and it has some really haunting moments that will stick with you.

Did you like PT? check The exorcist III

We couldn’t make this list without including PT, the “playable teaser” for Hideo Kojima’s now-canceled Silent Hills game. In fact, it is against the law of the players. But it gives us a chance to talk about The exorcist III, the best Exorcist movie you’ve never seen.

What unites PT and The exorcist III together (aside from both having some possession) is the lingering sense of dread in each. During the hour or two that you play PT, you are always on the edge. From the first seconds of The exorcist III, there will be a feeling of anxiety in the pit of your stomach, which will slowly increase as things get worse and worse. It is easily one of the most tense movies ever made.

Taking place 15 years after Regan MacNeil’s exorcism in The Exorcist, and ignoring the events of Exorcist II: The Heretic, The exorcist III follows Lieutenant William F. Kinderman, the Dennings investigator in the first film, as he attempts to solve a series of murders in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington DC, the setting of the original film. While the fingerprints suggest that these murders were perpetrated by different people, the murder method used matches the murders of The Gemini Killer, Kinderman discovers. The only problem is, The Gemini Killer was executed 15 years ago. Or maybe it wasn’t, as it was revealed that a patient in the psychiatric ward of the hospital in which the film is set was largely found catatonic and amnesiac 15 years ago, until one day he woke up saying he was The Killer. of Gemini.

It is no the most coherent plot, and the way the movie heats up in relation to the events of the original Exorcist movies are largely unnecessary. However, once the movie starts, it never stops. Only the second (and last) film directed by William Peter Blatty, who wrote The Exorcist novel script adapted to the cinema, The exorcist III It is a master class in restraint and suspension. Murders or violence are rarely shown on screen, only given brief glimpses of the aftermath and detailed descriptions of the characters, such as a body expertly drained of blood or a corpse filled with rosaries. There’s also the best jump scare ever shot in this movie. I won’t say anything else that it’s horrible.

Inevitably, The exorcist III will live forever in the shadow of The Exorcist. And for what it’s worth, I think it has merit. The Exorcist It is one of the best movies ever made, let alone one of the best horror movies ever made. But don’t sleep on this sequel! It’s readily available on streaming services and shows a writer-turned-director at the top of his game.

Did you like The Last of Us Part 2? check Lady revenge

Okay, technically not a horror movie, but bear with me. Like The Last of Us Part 2 (which you could argue is technically not a horror game either), Lady revenge, as the name implies, it is all about revenge. And more than that, it’s about the void of revenge and the lengths we are willing to go to to exact that revenge.

The final part of the “Revenge Trilogy” by South Korean director Park Chan-wook, preceded by Sympathy for Lord revenge, starring Parasites Park Dong-jin, and renowned critics Older boy, Lady revenge tells the story of Lee Geum-ja as she gets out of prison after being convicted of the kidnapping and murder of a six-year-old boy 13 years earlier (you may want to see Does the dog die? before seeing this one too). We learned that Dong-jin became a sensation in South Korea at one point due to the young age at which he admitted to committing his crime, but he has also become a beacon of the effectiveness of prison reform. Worth noting Lady revenge it’s full of twists and turns and nothing is what it seems at first.

Outside the prison, Dong-jin goes to work on her meticulously crafted plan for revenge and the murder of the man who landed her in prison. I will stop before saying anything more about the plot of the movie, but once you discover the true nature of what is happening in Lady revengeWhat it lacks in traditional scares it makes up for in the true horror of human nature.

For me, Lady revenge It is the most outstanding film of the Vengeance trilogy, although it is worth seeing all of them. It’s a beautiful movie, and perhaps Park Chan-wook’s most visually stunning film until his 2016 psychosexual drama. The maid. He is also not afraid to deeply examine human flaws, taking a close look at anger, betrayal, and what we are willing to do to feel justified in our actions.