Monday, 6 April 2026

Daymare: 1998 - Beyond the Horror - Part 3

Latest entry boasts a bit of everything.

Television

Vampire Slayer vs Buffy the Vampire Slayer


Nexa: Warrior Queen vs Xena: Warrior Princess


I Want To Believe¹ vs The X-Files


¹Subtitle of second feature film.

Pals vs Friends


And.

Central Park vs Central Perk


Graffiti

Redrum - The Shining (1980)


Snake Plissken - Escape from New York (1981)


Cyrus the Virus - Con Air (1997)


Kuato Lives - Total Recall (1990)


Be afraid. Be very afraid. - The Fly (1986)


We did it - 12 Monkeys (1995)


Most obscure though.

Timothy Flyte - The Ancient Enemy - Phantoms (1998)


Miscellany

The Fugitive (1993)

Dr. Kimble wrote a letter revealing a code to an encrypted file.

A Few Good Men (1992)

Operation Update is marked for the attention of Colonel J.R. Jessup, a nod to primary antagonist Colonel Nathan R. Jessup.

Clean Slate Order mentions Lt. J. Kendrick, referencing Lt. Jonathan Kendrick.

Polybius: The Conspiracy (left) is another take on the urban legend of "killer" arcade and Full-Life (right) is a play on Valve's Half-life.
Monitor screen

Ignoring the boring stuff like Valmontone and San Vito (real places in Italy), let's get to the nitty gritty.

Midwich St. - Silent Hill (named after John Wyndham's novel The Midwich Cuckoos.
Overlook Dr. - The Shining's Overlook Hotel.
F. Raccoon Alley - Resident Evil, with F. presumably standing for Forest.
Elm St. - A Nightmare apparently happened there.
Kedward Alley - The Blair Witch Project is based around the legend of Elly Kedward.
InvaderStation (an obvious parody of PlayStationvs Super Famicom/Super Nintendo Entertainment System.


Radio frequency 140.15 is Meryl Silverburgh's Codec in Metal Gear Solid (1998).


Wheelchair vs Silent Hill 3 (2003)


Iconic image in Hilltop Centre Otherworld is based directly on the poster for Session 9 (2001).


And just because they can.

Death Rides The Forest When Man Is Careless
1933 U.S. Forest Service wildfire prevention poster was often used to promote fire safety and the devastating effects of human negligence.
Deep Blue
In May 1997, IBM supercomputer made history by becoming the first machine to defeat Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov.
Bat Child Found In Cave!
Fictional creature made numerous appearances in American supermarket tabloid Weekly World News
Final flourish

HAL 9000 - 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)


Unix computer - Jurassic Park (1993)


OCP logo - RoboCop (1987)


Hallenbeck Investigations - The Last Boy Scout (1991)


Luggage cart - Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)


The most complicated is saved until last.

D&D Gun Shop was owned by Joe Dutch² and Robert Dillon³.
Names originate from: 

²Joe Baker (protagonist of End of Zoe DLC for RE 7: Biohazard) and Dutch Schaefer (Predator).
³Robert Kendo (RE 2) and Al Dillon (Predator).

Climax to follow.

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