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What Are the Best Horror Games of 2016 (So Far)?
The year’s about half over, and much of the bounty of new games we know of has been spent trying to please the writing mass of pale bodies that form us, the gamer horde and our insatiable appetite for fizzy refreshments and interactive amusements. Every year, games developers have their turn at the altar where they present a sacrifice to the Beast With Many Gamertags, afraid to unsettle the Slumbering One before its noon awakening, but eager to earn its fickle admiration.
It’s usually around this time of the year, when we’ve amassed enough tributes paid to us by the developers we allow to exist with us in this reality — praise be us, for we are Legion — that we conjure the ageless listicle from the Murky Depths of Many Pageviews to help determine the most epic of all the offerings.
That time has come, but rather than list my top offerings so they can endure your scrutiny, I’m going to leave it to you to decide which of 2016’s many spooky offerings is worthy of Transcendence. I’d do it, but I’m having trouble choosing between Doom, Oxenfree, The Town of Light and Dying Light: The Following. Please, lend me your aid, brothers and sisters of the Pale Horde, so that we can commence preparations for the return of The Three E’s.
Here they are:
Pony Island (PC)
Oxenfree (PC, XBO)
Resident Evil 0 HD (PC, PS3, PS4, 360, XBO)
Calendula (PC)
Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition (Wii U)
Dying Light: The Following / Enhanced Edition (PC, PS4, XBO)
Pesadelo – Regressão (PC)
Layers of Fear (PC, PS4, XBO)
The Walking Dead: Michonne (PC, PS3, PS4, 360, XBO)
The Town of Light (PC, XBO)
UnderDread (PC)
Kholat (PC, PS4)
The Guest (PC)
Moving Hazard (PC)
Doorways: Holy Mountains of Flesh (PC)
At the Mountains of Madness (PC)
Resident Evil 6 (PC, PS3, PS4, 360, XBO)
Dark Souls III (PC, PS4, XBO)
Phantasmal: City of Darkness (PC)
Sylvio Remastered (PC)
The Park (PS4, XBO)
Neverending Nightmares (PC, PS4)
Doom (PC, PS4, XBO)
So, which game deserves our praise today?
All of us here at Bloody Disgusting are deeply sad to learn that The Blob director Chuck Russell has passed away at 74 years old.
Russell’s career began with his directorial debut, 1987’s A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors.
The multihyphenate film director, screenwriter, and producer is best known for helming 1994 comedy The Mask starring Jim Carrey, Arnold Schwarzenegger actioner Eraser, and adventure spinoff The Scorpion King. The latter served as the first leading role for Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.
The filmmaker left an indelible mark on horror with his ANOES sequel, 1988’s The Blob, and 2000’s Bless the Child.
Russell’s final film credit is 2024’s Witchboard remake starring Madison Iseman (I Know What You Did Last Summer), Aaron Dominguez (Only Murders in the Building), and Jamie Campbell Bower (“Stranger Things”).
It marked Russell’s return to horror after a lengthy hiatus, and he shared sequel hopes to Bloody Disgusting in an interview ahead of the remake’s release: “I got to design the board with real mystical symbols and things that I know represent good and evil, and where that board takes us if the audiences respond to the film, and I hope they will; I know it’s out there for you guys, but the sequel is a world we’ll get to go a little further. That’s sure the intention.”
He also recently expressed interest in returning to the franchise that began his career.
TMZ notes that Russell passed away at his San Diego-area home.
We send our deepest condolences to Chuck Russell’s family, friends, and fans.
Director, Co-Writer & Producer Chuck Russell behind the scenes of the horror film, WITCHBOARD. Photo courtesy of The Avenue and Atlas Distribution
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