The Essential Selection - Chapter Six

Pazuzu

The Exorcist

The power of Christ compels me to show you more.

The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

The Devil's Candy

Wishmaster

Godzilla: King of the Monsters

Nurses

Fanny - Guilty Gear Petit

Morrigan - Super Gem Fighter Mini Mix

Freckly Fiona - Deadly Premonition

Joker - The Dark Knight

Alex Price - An American Werewolf in London

Mildred Ratched - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Tatiana - The Evil Within

Silent Hill's Lisa Garland is based on Amy Keating (The Exorcist III).

Albums

Blink-182 - Enema of the State

The Treatment - This Might Hurt

Burlap sacks

Alfredo - Cruel Peter

Biggy Man - Splatterhouse (1988)

Dr. Decker - Nightbreed

Harlan Hatcher - In the Shadows

Martin Bristol - Malevolence

Sam - Trick 'r Treat

Scarecrow - The Dark Knight

The Masked Man - The Strangers

The Hunter - Little Nightmares II vs Jess - Triangle

Dr. Salvador in Resident Evil 4 is a wicked mash up of Jason Vorhees - Friday the 13th Part II and Leatherface - The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.

Oh yeah.

The Phantom Killer - The Town That Dreaded Sundown¹ (1976)

¹2014 film of same name was a metafictional sequel.

Trees

Tree of Woe² - Conan the Barbarian (1982)

²Altered scene is adapted from Robert E. Howard's 1934 story A Witch Shall Be Born.

Mokujin - Tekken 3

Tree Warden - Rick and Morty (S9, E7), Mortgully: The Last Rickforest

Puppet - Tobal 2

Apostle D'Apcher - Chronicles of the Wolf

Evil Tree - Battle Princess Madelyn

Curse-rotted Greatwood - Dark Souls 3

Dragon Saber

Evil Dead II

Golem Wood - Midnight Wanderers

Grandmother Willow - Pocahontas (1995)

Great Tree - Flashback 2

Human Face Tree - Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (Saturn only)

Pollen

Poltergeist (1982)

Reborn Treant - Wuchang: Fallen Feathers

The King of Dragons

The Monster - A Monster Calls

Treebeard - The Lord of the Rings trilogy

Twinkle Tale - Mega Drive (Japanese only)

Whroon, Conjurer of the Forest - Deathsmiles

Living Forest - Mortal Kombat II (1993)

X-ray

The first film to visually break bones was 1974 Sonny Chiba classic The Street Fighter. 

However.

Trope was probably popularised by Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (1991). 

More. More. More.

Mortal Kombat (2011)

Renfield

Resident Evil: Retribution

Romeo Must Die

Tekken's Nina Williams in: Death by Degrees

Zombie Army - Killcam example

Turning shit up to eleven.

Fight Club (2004)

Terrible video game completely missed the point of David Fincher's adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's 1996 novel, but relevant for obvious reasons.

Guns Akimbo (2019)

Rather ironically, action comedy concerns Skizm, an underground fight club that streams death matches.

Final Fight Revenge (1999)

Bizarre tournament fighter inspired Shinji Mikami to create God Hand in 2006.

Anyway, here's El Gado's super move.

Shit was apparently copied by Hanzo in Samurai Shodown V Special (2004).

Nintendo

The video game company nobody's ever heard of takes centre stage.

Guest characters

Donkey Kong - Pixels

Link - SoulCalibur II (Gamecube only)

Bowser - Wreck-It Ralph

Parodies

Adventure Time - Guardians of Sunshine

Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
"Hey, you forgot the Power Glove."

The Amazing World of Gumball - The Console
Inverted Paradox (piss take of Final Fantasy VII) was released for the Gamechild.

Luigi's Mansion
Game Boy Horror accesses map.

The Simpsons

Million Dollar Maybe
Lisa grabs a Funtendo Zii.

Not It
Homer and his Power Glove.

Presenting what are presumably happy accidents.

Chrono Trigger

Secret of Mana

Hmmm.

The Wizard (1989)

Todd Holland's directorial debut featured extensive product placement and introduced Super Mario Bros. 3 to North America.

You want more?

Okay.

Arcades

Popeye - Necromancer

Mario Bros. - Over the Top

Games

Knight Moves
Erica smashes Super Mario 3 on a computer, rather than a NES.

Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
This is clearly Gyromite, but R.O.B. is shy.

Miscellany

Ghostbusters II
The gang use a NES Advantage joystick to control the Statue of Liberty.

Power Glove

With only two official compatible games (Super Glove Ball and Bad Street Brawler), steaming pile of shit was doomed from the beginning and hardly ever fucking worked.

Unsurprisingly, junk has become a curious piece of history.

8-bit Christmas

Kung Fury

Sliver

Super Scope

Once calibrated (by placing signal box on top of TV and shooting on-screen 'bullseye'), wireless bazooka required six AA batteries, and boy did bastard drain them quick.

Max Reload and the Nether Blasters (2020) features both cult accessories.

I'd be a right Koopa if I I forgot this.

Super Mario Bros. (1993)
Bazooka was modified and repainted as a 'Devo' Gun.

Back to the Future Part II (1989)

Jaws and Burger Time can be seen in an antique shop window.

Marty approaches a made-for-film arcade version of Wild Gunman, and proves to video game boys John Thornton and Elijah Wood that he's a 'crack shot at this'.

But as every butthead knows, using your hands is like a baby's toy.

Until next time.