Welcome to a different postergasm.
Actuals
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| Silent Hill 2 The Shining |
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| After the War Rumble Fish |
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| Back to the Future: The Game - Episode 1: It's About Time L-R: Weird Science and Frankenstein (1931) |
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| Double Dragon Advance Game of Death |
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| Double Dragon - Game Gear only The Terminator |
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| Jurassic Park Arcade The Lost World: Jurassic Park |
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| Street Fighter Alpha Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie |
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| Thimbleweed Park Revenge of the Jedi (before it was changed to Return of the Jedi). Episode III: Revenge of the Sith alludes to original title. |
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| Tomb Raider Chronicles Casablanca (top) and Rebecca (1940) |
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| The King of the Kickboxers (left) and Fist of Fury (right) |
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| Out for Justice (left), Bloodsport (middle) and Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (right) |
Jackie Chan Stuntmaster
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| Police Story 2 |
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| Project A |
Until Dawn
The following were all produced by game's co-writer Larry Fessenden, who also has a minor role as Flamethrower Guy.
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| Stake Land |
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| The House of the Devil |
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| The Innkeepers |
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| Hypothermia (left) and Bitter Feast (right) |
Silent Hill
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| Carrie |
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| Pet Semetary |
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| Die Hard 2 as Crusher Dan |
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| Raiders of the Lost Ark as Shoot |
Fake
Developers got creative.
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| No One Lives Forever 2: A Spy in H.A.R.M.'s Way Kung Fu Spy of Fury |
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| Rainbow Six Vegas The Redwood Horror |
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| Remothered: Tormented Fathers Scears |
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| Detroit: Become Human The Target, Raken, etc |
Batman: Arkham Knight
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| The Terror |
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| Prosecutor |
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| The Ghost in Gray |
Grand Theft Auto V
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| Die Already 4 |
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| Meltdown |
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| Capolavoro |
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| L-R: I Married My Dad and Sequel II |
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| Vinewood Zombie |
Zombie Flesh Eaters or Land of the Dead?
Maybe.
The House of the Dead: Overkill
Isaac motherfuckin' Washington for President.
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| Papa's Palace of Pain |
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| Naked Terror¹ |
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| Ballistic Trauma |
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| Carny |
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| Creeping Flesh² |
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| Scream Train |
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| The Fetid Waters |
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| Jailhouse Judgment |
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| Overkill |
¹ and ² exclusive to enhanced PS3 version Extended Cut.
War of the Monsters
Very much in the mold of Rampage and SNK's King of the Monsters, PS2 3D fighting gem should've got a sequel.
Anyway, the influence of 50's creature features are there for all to see.
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| Terror n Space |
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| Terror in Paradise! |
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| Battle of the Titans |
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| Cerebulon: Destroyer of Worlds |
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| Day of the Colossus |
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| Revenge of Togera |
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| Outpost X |
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| It Came From the Skies |
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| Battle for Atomic Island |
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| The Creeping Chaos |
Left 4 Dead
Series even boasts smart taglines.
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| No Mercy Curing the infection... one bullet at a time |
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| Death Toll Hell came to Earth. These four are gonna send it back. |
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| Dead Air Their flight just got delayed, permanently. |
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| Blood Harvest No hope. No cure. No problem. |
Left 4 Dead 2
Reloading.
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| Dead Center Prices Aren't the Only Things Getting Slashed |
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| The Passing Nobody survives forever |
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| Dark Carnival You must be this tall... TO DIE! |
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| Swamp Fever The only cure is dying |
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| Hard Rain³ Come Hell and high water |
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| The Parish This time it all goes south |
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| The Sacrifice It's your funeral |
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| Crash Course Crashing will be the easiest thing they do today. |
Parodies
Beginning with James Bond.
Gex: Enter the Gecko vs For Your Eyes Only
Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard vs GoldenEye
You Only Live 1317 Times is a play on You Only Live Twice.
Lethal Weapon - SNES only vs Lethal Weapon 3
Amiga version is largely the same, but ending favoured digitised screens.
Instead of action platformers, NES and Game Boy were scrolling brawlers.
Guess what?
They all fucking sucked.
Duke Nukem 3D vs Army of Darkness
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| Orcs Must Die! also rings a bell. |
Chex Quest 2
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Jaws
Slayaway Camp
Given title, I'm sure creators of voxel puzzler had Sleepaway Camp in mind.
Space Camp vs Jason X
Slayaway Camp Five: Bloodbath Beach vs Jaws
My Gory Valentine vs My Bloody Valentine 3D (2009)
Santa's Slay⁴ vs Silent Night, Deadly Night
⁴Final coincidence gave wrestler Bill Goldberg licence to have a bloody good time.
Viewtiful Joe
Joe & Silva vs Star Wars
The Viewtiful Escape vs The Hunt for Red October
Some Like It Red Hot⁵ vs King Kong (1976)
⁵Play on Some Like It Hot.
2,000,000 Leagues Under the Sea⁶ vs Jaws 2
⁶Play on 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
⁶Play on 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
The Magnificent 5⁷ vs Gladiator (2000)
⁷Play on The Magnificent Seven.
⁷Play on The Magnificent Seven.
His Master's Dance⁸ vs The Sting
⁸Play on His Master's Voice
Joe the Hero vs Dracula il Vampiro⁹
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⁹Italian for Horror of Dracula (Dracula in the UK), ntbcw Dracula (1931).
Stay tuned for blockbusting finale.
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