Nukes and Knives™

Tuesday, 5 May 2026

'Probably' everything that Resident Evil Requiem ripped off - File 1

The latest mainline entry wasn't perfect, but still a hugely enjoyable experience.

https://nukesandknives.blogspot.com/2026/03/resident-evil-requiem_2.html

But as expected, Capcom couldn't fucking help themselves.

The Last of Us (2013)

Blister Head vs Clicker

Blister Borne vs Bloater

Talk about taking the Cordyceps.

Alien: Isolation (2014)

The Girl stalks Grace, just like the xenomorph terrorises Amanda.

When damaged and/or attacked, respective monsters retreat into the ceiling.

Now that's hilarious.

The Evil Within (2014)

Survival horror was developed by Tango Gameworks and directed by Shinji Mikami, who I bet wasn't consulted.

Grace Ashcroft is sent to the Wrenwood Hotel to report on the latest T-virus related death, while Sebastian Castellanos arrives at Beacon Mental Hospital to investigate a murder scene.

But that's only the beginning.

Victor chokeholding Grace vs Ruvik drugging Sebastian

Both find themselves hanging upside down and after freeing themselves, flee The Girl and Sadist.

In no particular order.

Meat grinder

Wrecked train

Jesus Christ.

Grace and Seb slide into a vat of blood.

Topping the lot though.

The Girl attacks Grace in a lift, but after she escapes, hag beast apparently plummets to her doom, with hand severed in the process.

Seb has a similar experience, lwith Laura 'leaving' her arm behind as a parting gift.

Just... brilliant.

Alice universe

Undoubtedly the most famous set piece in Paul W. S. Anderson's original 2002 film was the lazer room trap, and Capcom included a version in RE 4 (2005) and Ada's campaign Separate Ways in the 2023 remake.

Shit also appeared in The Umbrella Chronciles (2007) and RE 6 (2012).

For reasons beyond my comprehension, RE 3 (2020) stole a bevvy of scenes from Alexander Witt's 2004 sequel RE: Apocalypse, which was largely based on RE 3: Nemesis (1999).

All that and more can be viewed here:

https://nukesandknives.blogspot.com/2024/05/probably-everything-that-resident-evil.html

Anyway, to business.

When Leon arrives in the ruins of Raccoon City, we can read a newspaper.

The Raccoon City Times
September 30, 1998
End of the world!
EVACUATE IMMEDIATELY

Nameplate is identical to 2002 film.

Headline and introductory paragraph references Day of the Dead (1985) and censored intro in RE (1996) respectively.

The Dead Walk! and Horror in Raccoon! More Victims Dead.

As a fun fact, a file in OG entitled Scrapbook contains the following:

RACCOON TIMES MAY 27, 1998

ANIMAL ATTACK? WOMAN MUTILATED

Article reports at around 10pm on May 20, the body of an unidentified 20-year-old woman was found on by a passer-by on the left bank of Marble River in the Cider District of Raccoon City.

For the record, this (or equivalent) doesn't appear in 2002 remake.

RE: Retribution (2012)

Emily is a clone of Grace.

Or shall we just call her...

Becky is a clone, but not of any established character.

Implanted with false memories, she serves as the 'daughter' of Suburban Alice and Todd (a clone of Carlos Oliveira).

Emily is blind and Becky is deaf btw.

Hmmm.

Before escaping Rhodes Hill, we're forced to carry Emily, easily comparable to Alice rescuing Becky.

Both pay tribute to Ripley and Newt in Aliens (1986).

"Close your eyes baby."

And.

RE: Degeneration (2008)
Claire Redfield earlier protected made-for-film character Rani Chawla from a zombie outbreak at Harvardville Airport.

Irritating flashback sequence at the orphanage (set in February 1990), has Chloe (Series 70) evading murderous Series 60 clones.

This slide found in the underground lab is immediately comparable to Alice clones awaking from suspended animation.

During the post-credits scene (only available in the canon ending), Grace tells Leon she's adopted Emily.

Guess what?

The real Alice 'emotionally' adopts Becky.

RE: The Final Chapter (2016)

Leon rides a Kawasaki KLR650, while Alice returns to Raccoon City on a BMW S 1000 XR.

Garmr vs Cerberus

Note how flesh and bone is exposed.

And the deal breaker.

Crater

(Ahem).

Believe it or not, the best is still to come.

Monday, 4 May 2026

Hokum - The scoop and digest

Supernatural horror is written and directed by Damian McCarthy.

Adam Scott - Ohm Bauman

Peter Coonan - Mal

David Wilmot - Jerry

Florence Ordesh - Fiona

Will O'Connell - Alby

Summary

Just before Halloween, writer Ohm Bauman (whose struggling to complete his Conquistador trilogy), travels from Washington to the Bilberry Woods Hotel in Ireland to scatter his parents ashes as they honeymooned there.

While doing the deed in the woods, Ohm meets a man called Jerry who regularly consumes milk laced with magic mushrooms.

He's a prick to everybody else, but Ohm warms to bartender Fiona, revealing his mother was shot dead and father drank himself to death.

She tells him about the honeymoon suite, said to be supposedly haunted by a witch.

After humiliating bellhop Alby and his dreams of being a writer, Fiona finds Ohm has hung himself, but rescues him.

Days after recovering in hospital, he returns to the hotel and informed by desk clerk Mal that Fiona went missing during the Halloween party, with Jerry being the prime suspect.

Suffice to say, the suite is reopened.

Where memories are made

Atmospheric yes, but calling this scary is ironically like the meaning of title - nonsense.

Suite is blatantly The Shining's Room 217/237, but no naked bathtub lady here.

Ohm's mom (Mallory Adams), who Ohm accidentally killed, and the witch (Sioux Carroll), serving as a metaphor for guilt, employ devastatingly dull jump scares, which we've seen a billion times before.

Of course spirits are part of narrative, but having already murdered Fiona, Mal is the main villain.

As the hotel burns, witch drags Mal into the underworld as Ohm makes peace with his mother's ghost, escaping both the basement and suite.

Back at the hospital, Alby admits to spiking Ohm's whisky with Jerry's hallucinogenic concoction and although shocked, Ohm promises to read Alby's manuscript and gives his Conquistador book a more hopeful ending.

Tuesday, 28 April 2026

Daymare: 1998 - Beyond the Horror - Part 4

After three epic slices, the best is saved until last (which perhaps takes Italian developer's admiration too far).

Miscellany

Go Ballistic Feb. 9th vs Ashley Graham - RE 4 (2005)

Luis Sera: [eyeing up Ashley's figure] "Well, I see that the President's equipped his daughter with ballistics too."

H.A.D.E.S. office vs S.T.A.R.S. office - RE 2 (2019)

Joe Dutch vs Unnamed guy in Room 001 - RE (2002)

And.

RE: Dead Aim (2003)
P.T. ended it all in Room 201 on the Spencer Rain.

Spencer Crackhorn

The name of Keen Sight's founder is an amalgam of Oswell Spencer and Martin Crackhorn.

An email from j.phelps to alma.genner begins with Dearest Alma, which is virtually identical to the start of Researcher's Will - My dear Alma,

City pamphlet is an advertising guide from Neil Carson, describing stunning scenery in Redcrest Mountains and the annual Apple Blossom fair, a tradition that Keen Sight has been celebrating every summer for over 80 years.

File ends with:

Please enjoy your stay in my lovely city.

Thank you.

Neil Carson,

Keen Sight Mayor

RE 2 - N64

Random as fuck, but similarly titled EX file Raccoon City Pamphlet is written in the same manner, with ending verbatim.

Please enjoy your stay in my lovely city. Thank you.

Michael Warren

Raccoon City Mayor

City Guide in RE 3: Nemesis mixes shit up and focuses more on the man himself.

Fun fact.

Devlin Harris is the Mayor in S.D. Perry's novelisations.

Now for the mainline PS1 trilogy.

Survivor is technically canon, but shitty spin-off is ignored anyway.

RE (1996)

Daymare vs Biohazard (JP)

InvaderStation (an obvious parody of PlayStation) is identical to font used in North American/European cover art.

Love this one.

12061996

PC port was initially released in Japan on December 6 1996.

Burton's Construction vs Barry Burton

Okay then.

V-Jolt is the key

When created, chemical is used to instantly weaken Plant 42.

RE 2 (1998)

Letter to Doug

According to its author (Annette, a nod to Annette Birkin), her husband Doug MacReady, a sewage worker, is a fucking loser, and even threatens to cheat on him with the plumber.

What a bitch.

She also hopes a giant crocodile will take a piece of his fat ass.

Monster was actually an alligator, but whatever.

A. Wong