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Your Winner For Best Horror Game Of 2008 Is……..
DEAD SPACE! Plenty more people voted this year than last years battle where BioShock destroyed. And now I wonder, if Dead Space were to take on BioShock, who would win in the best game of 2007 vs the best game of 2008….stay tuned….
Top 3 Games:
1. Dead Space: 85 votes, 37.95%
2. Left 4 Dead: 76 votes, 33.93%
3. Fallout 3: 27 votes, 12.05%
Dead Space had it the entire race, although Left 4 Dead caught up and came close, it never passed Dead Space. Fallout 3 was 3rd place and didn’t even come close.
The controls in Dead Space are one of the main things that really sold me on it. When I went to E.A. to play it, and people asked me how the controls were, I said, oh they’re just like Resident Evil 4. And that’s what I described them as until I went back and played Resident Evil 4 again. And they weren’t the same. Dead Space’s controls trumped Resident Evils. So much smoother, and being able to aim your gun, and shoot it while moving is incredible. Many may not recall in Resident Evil 4, and also in Resident Evil 5, you can’t move aim and shoot. Once you aim, you immediately stop moving, and you have to pivot around in the same spot to aim at your enemies. This becomes a huge problem when you are being attacked by several enemies, or they are coming towards you and you can’t shoot while backing up. The story was great and original, they had the movie and comics to back up and thicken up the story. And for E.A.’s 1st attempt at horror, they did a mind blowingly awesome job. I’m super excited for the next Dead Space, and to see the E.A. Redwood Shores Crews adaptation of Dante’s Inferno. You can check out the teaser video for it HERE!
“She’s mine, and I’m hers.”
The prison movie is a cornerstone of the cinematic landscape. Often adjacent to horror, there’s something inherently horrific about a building full of “convicts” jockeying for power. Criminal masterminds and the wrongfully convicted alike become pawns in a dehumanizing system and struggle to stay alive in the restrictive environment. Claire Denis pushes this genre to its outer limits with sci-fi and horror elements comparing incarceration to the prison of the human body. Her 2018 film High Life follows a group of prisoners turned astronauts who struggle to retain their humanity after the world has cast them out.
When we first meet Monte (Robert Pattinson), he’s raising a toddler on an isolated space station in the galaxy’s outer reaches. His daughter Willow was conceived through assault by fellow inmate Dr. Dibs (Juliette Binoche) as a part of her mission to reproduce in space. As Denis unpacks the story of this troubled crew, they slowly realize they have been discarded and forgotten. Some find freedom to enact their violent agendas while others try to retain a semblance of normalcy in the extreme environment. Essentially guinea pigs, Monte and his crewmates hurtle through space and grope for a reason to keep existing.
The Lady Killers continue Killer Moms Month with Claire Denis’ beautifully complex film. Co-hosts Jenn Adams, Mae Shults, Rocco T. Thompson, and Sammie Kuykendall chart the mysteries of the cosmos in their quest to understand the glacial plot. They’ll chat about screaming babies, space gardens, black holes and spaghetti along with heavier themes like reproduction and bodily autonomy. Why is Dr. Dibbs so obsessed with pregnancy? Why doesn’t Monte partake of the sex box? Does Mia Goth actually have a big booty and what really happened on that spaceship filled with dogs? They’ll approach the black hole and try to withstand spaghettification while zeroing in on the unpleasant themes of this exceptional film.
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