Titles, taglines, subtitles and miscellany - Nuts and bolts

Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life and Sparklehorse - It's a Wonderful Life

If it was Christmas, I'd mention a certain James Stewart film of same name.

Oops. Just did.

Awaydays and Villagers - [Awayland]

Call of Duty: Black Ops and Legacy: Black Ops

The Police - Ghost in the Machine and Ghost in the Shell

Ash Borer - Cold of Ages and Serenity - War of Ages

Rock of Ages

Diamonds are Forever

Film and Siberia 2018 (tagline)

Fear begins (taglines)

The 13th Warrior and Hannibal Rising

The Fan
Fear strikes

Not half, but full circle.

The Ring Two
Fear comes full circle

"O"
Everything comes full circle

Saw VI
The game comes full circle

Return from Witch Mountain¹ and TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain

¹Sequel to Escape to Witch Mountain (1975), not to be confused with 1995 remake.

Race to Witch Mountain remade Escape in 2009.

China Girl (Oz: The Great and Powerful), China Moon and Chinatown²

Before David Bowie's album Let's Dance, China Girl first appeared on Iggy Pop's The Idiot.

²Also an unrelated album (and song) by Thin Lizzy.

Double Impact and Final Fight: Double Impact

Even though subject matter is the same - this is still reasonably odd.

Providing you ignore 'They live within', tagline of Alien Encounter is a combination of The Fourth Kind's title and tagline's climax.

The fourth kind is abduction.

Hmmm.

Hard to Kill and Easy Money II: Hard to Kill

Hard to Die

8 is a magic number.

Ripley 8 (Alien Resurrection)

Alien 8

Jennifer 8

Sense 8

Super 8

Vigilante 8

Elliott Smith - Figure 8

Ocean's 8

Southpaw and Spacepaw

Presenting a useless piece of trivia.

Gordon R. Dickson's book is seen in 2014 horror Housebound.

The Irritating Maze and Irritating Stick

Another eyebrow raiser.

You're looking at Amiga game Alert X.
Said craft is described as being a Special Weapons Interdiction Vehicle.

So basically SWIV then.

Universally accepted as the spiritual successor to Silkworm, SWIV is also short for 'Silkworm IV', even though there were never any official sequels.

I know there's no law against having another interdiction thingy, but even so.

During intro of SNES port Super SWIV (Firepower 2000 in North America), jeep or chopper emerges from mothership Special Weapons IV.

Whatever.

Boss battle theme (also used throughout entire final stage) rips off The Terminator, when Reese and female solider encounter a HK tank.

They had some balls, right?

Technically inferior, but this is also true for Mega SWIV.

Viewtiful Joe: Double Trouble! and Sonic the Hedgehog: Triple Trouble

Thanatos

Endless Ocean: Blue World (Wii)

Resident Evil: Outbreak (PS2)

Leander (Amiga)

Miscellany

Released for Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and C64, Thanatos was a scrolling shmup.

Secret of Mana (SNES)
Elinee mentions Thanatos in dialogue.

GBC Color exclusive Aliens: Thanatos Encounter was distinctly drab.

High Voltage

AC/DC and 1985 arcade

Crank 2: High Voltage

In the Book of Genesis, Adam munching on forbidden fruit caused the destruction of the Garden of Eden.

Okay, here's more.

Forbidden - Forbidden Evil

Forbidden Forest

Forbidden Ground

Forbidden Kingdom

Yu-Gi-Oh!: Forbidden Memories

Forbidden Planet

HK: Forbidden Super Hero

Forbidden World

Simulation, platform and racing are examples of video game genres.

Films and music can 'unofficially' become so.

Iggy Pop - Beat Em Up

Pandemic
First. Person. Shooter.
I guess this is modern warfare is a tacky ref to Call of Duty.

Another film shot entirely from a certain perspective is Hardcore Henry.

Level Up
Ubiquitous mechanic in old-school RPGs.

As a side note, RPG aka Real Playing Game is a Rutger Hauer thriller.

Shoot 'Em Up

Third Person

Order of the Garter is a chivalry honour founded by Edward III.

The second episode of Assassin's Creed Odyssey: Legacy of the First Blade adds five new worshippers, collectively known as Order of the Storm.

Phila the Tempest, Megakreon the Unbreakable, Nestor the Formidable, Augos the All-Seeing and Sophos the Broker.

Oh yeah.

Dungeons & Dragons: Order of the Griffon

Here's a bunch of random brilliance.

BDX³ (Escape Plan) and BMX

³Stands for Bedwater Prison.

Less said about sequel the better.

DMX and LBX: Little Battlers Experience

Music and Lyrics is a film starring Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore.

Words and Music are albums from Saint Etienne and Aqualung.

Zack and Miri make a Porno and Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure

You are not welcome here (District 9) and You're not welcome here (Madison County)

Tuff E Nuff (Dead Dance in Japan) and Tough Enough

Awesome.

Batman Returns
Gentlemen, start your screaming.

Daytona USA
Gentlemen, start your engines.

Spider-Man: Maximum Carnage⁴ and Flatout: Ultimate Carnage

⁴Video game was called Spider-Man and Venom: Maximum Carnage.

Total Carnage and Rampage: Total Destruction

The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction

Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home, Orca: The Journey Home and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

 E-1000 (P47 Aces) and T-1000 (Terminator 2: Judgment Day)

Chopper

Classic bike and film

Chop (the black Rottweiler in Grand Theft Auto V) and Bell X1 - Chop Chop

Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop

When a person says 'chop chop', it means get your ass in gear.

A chop shop is where stolen cars are disassembled and sold on for parts.

Oh yeah.

Chop Top (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2)

The fight has evolved (Arrowhead) and The hunt has evolved (The Predator) 

Born to Dance and Lana Del Ray - Born to Die

Born to Fight and Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run

Born to Kill

Film, Private Joker's helmet (Full Metal Jacket) and Channel 4 drama

Contract to Kill and Driven to Kill

Hired to Kill, Hunt to Kill and Fit to Kill

Play to Kill and Kreator - Pleasure to Kill

Dressed to Kill

Kiss and film

Taglines

400_Days
Time to kill

Robot World
Built to kill

Riot
Caged to kill

Apollo Brown - The Easy Truth, Golden Earring - The Naked Truth and The Ugly Truth

The Awful Truth

Anarchy Reigns and Nuclear Death Terror - Chaos Reigns

Call me a scatter brain, but what did the fox say in Lars von Trier's Antichrist?

Chaos reigns!

That's it.

The battle for Earth begins (Mankind's Last Stand) and The battle for eternity begins (Gods of Egypt)

The final hunt begins (Blade: Trinity), The invasion begins (Dominion) and The ultimate battle begins (Resident Evil: Retribution)

Daybreakers
The battle for blood begins

The battle for paradise has begun (Star Trek: Insurrection), The battle for the moon has begun (Darkside) and The battle for Earth has begun (Somnus)

The age of machine has begun (Cyborg X) and The fight for eternity has begun (The 5th Wave)

The nightmare has only just begun (Halloween II 1981) and The panic has just begun (Bells)

The nightmare has begun (Just Before Dawn), The end has begun (Beyond) and The war has begun (Age of the Dead)

Three - The End Is Begun

Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams and The Terminator: Dawn of Fate

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow

Rhapsody - Dawn of Victory and Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War

Final Fantasy I & II: Dawn of Souls

Earth is the just the beginning (Alien Convergence) and The heist was just the beginning (The Vault)

Resident Evil 2 (2019) teaser
Survival is only the beginning

Back to the Future Part II
Getting back was only the beginning

F is for Family and H is for Hawk

D is for Dangerous is a track by Arctic Monkeys.

Each short in horror anthology The ABCs of Death (and its sequel), kicks off with 'A is for...', but third 2.5 only uses words beginning with M.

Getting rid of 'is'.

F for Fake and V for Vendetta

Z for Zachariah

Film and book

Boris Vallejo

Seed of Chucky and Seed of Destruction (Hellboy comic)

Seeds of Yesterday and Seeds of Deception

Seeds of Destruction and Turok 2: Seeds of Evil

Lost in Time

Bugs Bunny and Waxwork II

Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time

Final part of original live action trilogy Turtles III had halfshells vist feudal Japan, but piece of shit was completely unrelated to said arcade.

First tagged with III was NES exclusive The Manhattan Project, followed by Game Boy effort Radical Rescue.

How far would you go?

A Second Chance and Beyond Justice

Adding meat to bones.

A Hologram for the King
How far will you go to find yourself?

Continuum
How far would you go to change the past?

Felony
How far would you go to conceal the truth? 

The Talented Mr Ripley
How far would you go to become someone else.

Secret in Their Eyes
How far would you go to avenge your daughter's murder?

Death Wish 2018
How far would you go to protect your family

At Any Price
How far will you go to chase a dream?

Yashin - We Created A Monster and They created a monster (Splice)

We are going to eat you! (Zombie) and We are going to flush you! (Zombie Ass: Toilet of the Dead

If he wins, you die. (The Midnight Man) and If you look you die (Selfie from Hell)

Movie franchises can start at The Beginning.

Examples include:

Exorcist⁵, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2006 prequel to 2003 remake) and Ong Bak.

⁵In 2005, an alternative prequel titled Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist was released.

Some assigned number (and numeral).

Missing in Action 2 and Psycho IV.

I'd never forgive myself if I didn't include video game Populous: The Beginning.

Several other variations exist, but we must move on.

The end begins (taglines)

Batman: Arkham Knight (teaser), Terminator: Salvation and Left Behind

Terminus
The end begins here

The beginning of the end (taglines)

Messengers 2: The Scarecrow, The Rift and Left Behind

Ju-On: The Beginning of the End rebooted series and The Beginning of the End is a track by Nine Inch Nails.

The Black Eyed Peas

The Beginning

The E.N.D. (The Energy Never Dies)

"Beginning of the End"

Beginning of the End is a track by Status Quo and End of the Beginning are tracks by 30 Seconds to Mars and Black Sabbath.

Leatherface
Witness the beginning of your end

Final: The Rapture
The end is the beginning

The Ending of the Beginning is the title of a dramatic piece of music in Resident Evil Code: Veronica and The Smashing Pumpkins brought The End Is the Beginning Is the End.

Entering the world of Mudvayne.

The Beginning of All Things to End

The End of All Things to Come

(Wipes brow).

Let the hunt begin

Escape and Zombie Hunters

Extending shit.

Let the insanity begin (Madhouse 2004) and Let the killing begin... (Grim Weekend)

Let the manhunt begin (The Breed 2006) and Let the slay ride begin (Black Christmas⁶)

⁶When compared to Bob Clark's seminal original - complete bollocks.

Let the slaughter begin

Violent Shit: The Movie and Humans vs Zombies

Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood and Wolfenstein: The Old Blood

Mudvayne - The New Game and Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures

Gremlins 2: The New Batch, Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus and Premier Manager 2: The New Season

The New Order

Scanners II and Wolfenstein

Can you feel it?

(What?)

The Power of course.

Now you come to mention it.

Retired darts legend Phil 'The Power' Taylor.

In forgotten puzzler The Power, emoticon Max must collect hearts in such a way that he eventually meets up with Mini.
Problems start once hero moves, as he cannot stop until brick wall is hit, so route for each maze must be carefully planned, or true love won't conquer all.

The Power and the Glory

Gentle Giant and book⁷

⁷Adapted for the screen in 1961 and completely unrelated to 1933 film of same name.

The Rescue

1988 film and John Everett Millais painting

Ikari III and Rambo III (C64)⁸

⁸Curiously, the only home computer version to display 'fake' subtitle.

Free Willy 3 and Frogger's Adventure

Albums with people in title include:

The Limiñanas - Shadow People
Richard Ashcroft - These People
You Me At Six - Night People
Martyn - Ghost People

Similarly, Pulp's Common People instantly springs to mind.

Ruthless People, Funny People and Ordinary People are all films.

And.

Mars People (as seen in Neo Geo Battle Coliseum)
Alien invaders debuted in Metal Slug 2.

Candy People (Adventure Time)
Candy Kingdom citizens are very gullible and explode when they're frightened.

Bart People is the final story in Bart Simpson's Treehouse of Horror #1.

To finish off.

Don't Let Him In and Don't let them in (Intruders tagline)

But Admission's tagline suggests to:

Let someone in

Let Me In is surprisingly a good remake of Let the Right One In.

Trophies in Until Dawn largely ref horror movies.

For some reason, Let eM In and You Let the Wrong One In! seem relevant.

(Ahem).

Now check this out.

Resident Evil 2 (2019)
When Claire accesses the Interrogation Room, Let Me Out is written on one-way mirror.

Yeah, I'm brilliant.