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What Horror Game Burned You Bad?
It hasn’t been fun watching Konami unravel before our very eyes these last two weeks, but all the bad that’s enveloped Silent Hills did get me thinking about some other promising horror games that have burned me almost as badly in the past.
Games like the 2008 reboot of Alone in the Dark, which I was intensely looking forward to in the months leading up to its release. I had high hopes for the game, which I assumed would be the refreshing take on a franchise that’s served as the grandfather of survival horror. The footage I had examined so closely showed immeasurable promise, even if Atari did have an annoying tendency to lean to heavily on its realistic fire effects.
It had some good ideas, sure, but it also had the audacity to think anyone would enjoy spending hours running through a monster-infested Central Park searching for devil trees to set ablaze.
Clive Barker’s Jericho is another example of a game I didn’t expect to see fail so spectacularly. Granted, my expectations for it had been solely based on the name that was attached to it, as well as my love for Undying, but I’ve been excited for games I knew less about than that. In the end, Jericho succeeded where I thought it would — I’m mostly referring to the monsters here — and it failed in almost every other way.
Its biggest sin may have been how frustrating it was to play. Overpowered enemies, lazy level design and alarmingly poor AI sucked almost every drop of fun from that game, leaving us with something that was stylistically interesting and a chore to play.
This leads me to my question:
Other than Silent Hills, is there a horror game — or games — that burned you bad?
All of us here at Bloody Disgusting are deeply sad to learn that actress Daveigh Chase has passed away at just 35 years old. The news was first reported by TMZ this afternoon.
The outlet reports, “The actress’ boyfriend, Roy Hernandez, tells TMZ … Daveigh died Tuesday from meningitis and an infection in her blood, which caused her to have septic issues and led to her body shutting down.” The website’s report continues, “We’re told Daveigh had been admitted to a hospital in Los Angeles earlier this month because of malnutrition.”
Here in the horror world, a young Daveigh Chase memorably played Samara in Gore Verbinski’s 2002 horror movie The Ring, the American remake of the Japanese horror hit.
Far outside the horror world, Daveigh Chase voiced Lilo in the 2002 animated movie Lilo & Stitch, a character she continued to voice in various animated spinoff projects.
Chase also appeared as Samantha Darko in the 2001 classic Donnie Darko, later returning to play the sister of Donnie Darko in the 2009 spinoff movie titled S. Darko.
Daveigh Chase’s resume also includes roles on the TV shows “Sabrina the Teenage Witch,” “Charmed,” “ER,” “Touched by an Angel,” “CSI,” “Cold Case,” and 32 episodes of “Big Love.”
Chase appeared in the films The Rats, Silence, Carolina, Beethoven’s 5th, Yellow, Little Red Wagon, Transference, Killer Crush, Jack Goes Home, and American Romance.
We send our deepest condolences to Daveigh Chase’s family, friends, and fans.
Pictured: Daveigh Chase in ‘Killer Crush’ (2015)
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