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PaperclipPerfector  5d ago (text post)   1742 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for October 2, 2026

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As it's now Spooky Season '26, I wonder if you folks would be interested in sharing what your favourite works of horror media are. I'll get the ball rolling in the sub-threads below.

Video games

  • Silent Hill 2 (original, not remake): As reviewed here. The undisputed masterpiece of psychological horror, not to mention perhaps the best story ever told in the medium.
  • Resident Evil:
    • Resident Evil REmake: The GameCube remake of the first game, later ported to Windows. Brilliant.
    • Resident Evil 4: For GameCube, PS2 and just about every other console going. Changed the way third-person shooters would play for literally decades. So many quotable lines.
    • Resident Evil 7: Successfully switched up the formula by moving to first-person. Wonderfully creepy and atmospheric.
  • Manhunt: As reviewed here. A remarkable fusion of stealth and survival horror, from the people behind Grand Theft Auto.
  • Alien Isolation: Successfully translates the vibe of the original 1979 film into a first-person stealth context. I knew from the first ten minutes of playing it that I would be coming back for more, and I wasn't wrong.
  • SOMA: My wife and I started a playthrough of this last night (her first, my second). The best game set in an underwater base ever made except for that other one.
  • Condemned: Criminal Origins: I used to play this once a year. Terrifying, with some of the most brutally realistic first-person melee combat I've ever seen.
  • Amnesia: The Dark Descent: Finished it once, a long time ago, and remember enjoying it. Tempted to try The Bunker this year.
  • Outlast: Terrifying, and spawned innumerable imitators.

Just gotta plug both Half-Life games. I'm not much of a horror person, (and the games aren't really horror games - more puzzle shooters with some light horror insporation) so I am sure that for a true horror junkie they're pretty tame, but the headcrabs in the air ducts in the first game and Ravenholm in particular in the second game are, in my opinion, good scary fun.

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