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Samhain said:
I'm sure there are much better zombie shows, but I wouldn't know because I don't think zombies are all that interesting. Black Summer (RIP) was pretty good. Apparently it was a spinoff of another zombie show, but I had no idea when I watched it.
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It's a prequel to the schlocktastic Z Nation, an action/horror/comedy series that decides to cut out most of the talky drama of The Walking Dead and focus on zombie killing and having fun. YMMV, but I genuinely love the show. When you have no budget, it helps to have clever scripts and to spend your money where it matters: great-looking zombie makeup and gore.

Black Summer was fantastic, but obviously it's a very different tone and vibe. I watched it on a whim before I tried Z Nation and was throughly impressed. I am unhappy to hear we won't get more.
 
Doctor of Autism said:
Honestly this is why I dropped the show around season 6, like while I heard the hype for Negan, it wasn't enough to really keep me invested when the show is the same formula

Group finds new area -> Stay at new area -> Infighting -> Bad guy from area or different place starts feuding with them -> They fight -> Walkers take over the area -> Go back to step 1

I don't care if the show changed it up after Season 6 but the fact I heard it is still continuing makes me feel like I dodged a nuke.
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there was a midget with a backpack full of missiles at least
 
I'm in a Splatterhouse mood and don't know where to post this so fuck it. I just wanted to point out that the composer for Splatterhouse 3 was very clearly inspired by the soundtrack to Fulci's House by the Cemetery:



You can practically overlay them and it's like the Splatterhouse theme is a 16-bit remake.
 
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It is the legendary chupacabra that truly blows sucks goats

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BrunoMattei said:
I'm in a Splatterhouse mood and don't know where to post this so fuck it. I just wanted to point out that the composer for Splatterhouse 3 was very clearly inspired by the sountrack to Fulci's House by the Cemetery:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=JrgG-gn288E
https://youtube.com/watch?v=dC01gS5dkmk
You can practically overlay them and it's like the Splatterhouse theme is a 16-bit remake.
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I feel silly for not noticing before. Half the fun of the OG Splatterhouse games was finding all the little Easter Eggs from horror movies.


Calandrino said:
It is the legendary chupacabra that truly blows sucks goats

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I know of only one movie based on the Chupacabra, and it's bad and stupid as Hell.
You could count Species as one too. ;)
 
Vampirella said:
I feel silly for not noticing before. Half the fun of the OG Splatterhouse games was finding all the little Easter Eggs from horror movies.
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It was also one of if not the first game to reference Saturn Devouring his Children like every indie horror game does nowadays.

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There's some dislike for 3 but I chalk that up to the difficulty being very high, enemies being made to be deliberately annoying with keep away tactics, and the sadly lacking amount of weapons.

I love the cut scenes too and it's a great solution in lieu of the technology not being able to play live action shit.

 
BrunoMattei said:
There's some dislike for 3 but I chalk that up to the difficulty being very high, enemies being made to be deliberately annoying with keep away tactics, and the sadly lacking amount of weapons.
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I mostly stick to the Japanese version. The gameplay changes to the western version were not for the better.
 
Calandrino said:
I mostly stick to the Japanese version. The gameplay changes to the western version were not for the better.
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Jap version is easier but the gameplay changes are interesting. Now to really nerd out: there's a special Mortal Kombat-style special move you can pull off but ONLY in the North American version. Hit toward, away, (pause for about half a second) and then attack. It's finnicky but once you get the input down the game becomes a lot easier. Then, when you're in Hulk mode, the input changes to: toward, away, toward, and then pause and attack and you do that gut/tentacle attack. I like the idea behind that because you risk leaving yourself open in order to do the move and save time to get the good ending.

In the Jap version, the input is simply Attack + Jump like any other beat 'em up at the time. But, the animation for the spin kick is different and the attack does less damage. But when you're in Hulk mode the move does the same busted amount of damage it does in the NA version but it drains energy.

The timer is also more lenient, enemies do less damage, and because of the relaxed time limit the bonus levels are far easier to get to. The bonus stage is dependent on time and if you beat the boss with 2 minutes left you automatically go to that level.
 
BullfrogBill said:
@Internet War Criminal mentioned This is the End and Tucker and Dale being decent horror comedies but those are really just full on comedy movies with no real horror. House of 1000 Corpses reminds me a lot of Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 which is one of my all time favorite movies and it's the best example of a true horror comedy that I can think of, a movie that is funny but also has serious horror elements as well.
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The way I see it, you have comedies with horror elements (This is the End, Tucker and Dale, Shawn of the Dead, etc…) then you have horror with comedic elements (TMC 2, Evil Dead, Cabin Fever, etc…) but both kind of fit under the horror umbrella imo.
 
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