Daymare: 1998 - Beyond the Horror - Part 4

After three epic slices, the best is saved until last (and borderline obsessive).

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

D&D Gun Shop vs Gun Shop Kendo
 

R.P.D. (Rapid Post Delivery) vs R.P.D. (Raccoon Police Department)

Kinda cute I suppose.

This too shall pass is an adage of Persian origin about impermanence.

Guess what?

As a special bonus.

Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City

RE 3: Nemesis (1999)

Finally, time to go overboard.

Aoyama Corp. Japan

Kazuhiro Aoyama was game's director and helped develop Daymare in its very early stages.

Grady's Inn

Books

D&D Gun Shop vs Eagle's Pet Shop

Black Jack Pub vs Bar Jack

Chalk tracks

Paracelsus Sword¹ vs "Rail Cannon"

¹As mentioned by Technology Division Colonel Franklin Hart in Classified Photo File.

Heart-Avir

Drug is their version of Aqua Cure, Safsprin or Adravil.

The end.

(Thank Christ).

Prequel Daymare: 1994 Sandcastle was released in 2023.

I might take a look.

Normal (2026) - The scoop and digest

Ben Wheatley's action thriller (unrelated to 2007 film of same name), is written by John Wick creator Derek Kolstad.

Bob Odenkirk - Sheriff Ulysses Richardson

Henry Winkler - Mayor Kibner

Lena Headey - Moira

Billy MacLellan - Deputy Mike Nelson

Reena Jolly - Lori

Ryan Allen - Deputy Blaine Anderson

Brendan Fletcher - Keith

Peter Shinkoda - Joe

Jess McLeod - Alex

Summary

Disgraced Yakuza member Joe is sent to Normal, Minnesota, to redeem himself.

Three weeks later, Ulysses arrives in sleepy town as interim sheriff, following the death of his predecessor.

During a bank robbery, Ulysses enters to negotiate with Lori and Keith, but in doing so, his deputies unload, revealing the corrupt Mayor Kibner is working with the Yakuza.

Rather than arresting them, he allies himself, uncovering a huge criminal operation.

Taking the Yakuza's heavy artillery from the bank's vault, shit is about to get noisy. 

Good people. Small problems.

While story is shallow and script corny, action in 'Fargo meets Hot Fuzz' is its saving grace.

Returning to the itchy trigger mode of Free Fire (2016), Wheatley consistently sprays enough bullets to make sure the vast majority of town are dead.   

Despite a fun appearance from Fonzie (who soon gets blown up), Odenkirk virtually carries the entire film on his grumpy shoulders.

Against the upbeat irony of When You're in Love with a Beautiful Woman, the final 10 minutes pits law enforcement against the Yakuza.  Unfortunately, bloody climax largely rehashes earlier sequences.

I don't suppose a sequel (Abnormal) will be commissioned, but we end one month later with Ulysses and Lori in Placid Shores, Texas, on another substitute sheriff assignment.

The Hills Have Eyes (2006)

Alexandre Aja's brutal remake of Wes Craven's 1977 cult classic remains one of the best examples of modern horror.

For what it's not worth, The Asylum's mockbuster Hillside Cannibals starred director Leigh Scott in a dual role as Sawney Bean and David.

Poster depicts Lizard laying a depraved hand on Brenda.

Whatever, shit rips off Unleashed (2005).

Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019)

Known for Conan the Barbarian (1982), Red Sonja (1985) and The Advenutres of Baron Munchausen (1988), renowned Italian artist Renato Casaro was coaxed out of retirement to design numerous film-within-film posters for Quentin Tarantino's uneven ode to 1969 Los Angeles, with Mike Moh controversially portraying Bruce Lee as an arrogant prick.

Check this out.

Comanche Rising

While that's probably coincidence, Casaro got away with plagiarising an iconic work by fantasy supremo Boris Vallejo.

Satan's Baby Doll (1982) vs Vampire's Kiss (1979)

(Rolls eyes).

And.

Amateur Night (2016)

Even if this is a parody of Hills, it doesn't explain why Casaro's work in Hollywood is so similar.

Getting back on track.

Tagline

The lucky ones died first...

Became:

The lucky ones die first.

WHY?

Anyway, two films deemed it necessary to copy remake.

Mischief Night (2013)

Bastard (2015)

Big Brain

New character replaces Papa Jupiter as clan leader.

Rubber Johnny is a 2005 British experimental short film/music video produced, written, starring and directed by Chris Cunningham, featuring Aphex Twin track Afx237 v.7.

(Deep breath).

WTF?

Before being mauled to death by Beast (entirely off-screen), he orders Lizard to kill the baby.

This is how Pluto 'died' in original, but villain was magically brought back in Part II, and finally killed when Beast knocks him off a cliff.

It's breakfast time!

Please note, the following only happens in remake.

A battered Doug threatens Pluto with a scratch awl. 

But shit is just a ploy,and geezer seizes the opportunity to drive tool into foe's foot.

Film buffs should already be laughing.

True Romance (1993)

Alabama (who's had the shit kicked out of her too), adopts a 'similar' tactic against Virgil (albeit using a corkscrew).

The Sopranos - Amour Fou (May 2001)
Although playing out differently, Gloria grabbing a corkscrew to defend herself against Tony is surely a nod to Tony Scott's classic.

Going back to the beginning of scene.

Haunting Ground (2005)

While hide-and-chase mechanics were highly derivative of the Clock Tower series, how 18-year-old protagonist Fiona Belli¹ is seen as an object of sexual desire was deeply unsettling.

¹The same age as Rebecca Chambers in Resident Evil (1996).

Pluto vs Debilitas

At one point.

Beast attacks Pluto.

Fiona commanding Hewie is an integral part of gameplay.

 

You want Fiona? I'll give you Fiona!

Eerie fact.

Like Beast, Hewie is a German Shepherd.

But this just takes the Azoth.

Doug and Pluto vs Fiona and Debilitas

 

UNBELIEVABLE.

Coincidence? My fucking ass.