Halloween 2012. Video Game Playlist II: The New Nightmare.
Last year I created a playlist on YouTube featuring a bunch of spooky music from video games. Well, not all of it was spooky per se, but it all came from horror-themed games or levels of games. Upon subjecting the neighborhood to it out of my window on the fateful night I realized some refinement could be useful. As of today, that refinement finally happened, and I created three new playlists out of the original to different needs. The spooky playlist contains the low-key mood-setters, with all of the ambient pieces (though not exclusively ambient). This is the one to use for your haunted house atmosphere. The melodic playlist contains pieces with strong and catchy melodies, still perfectly Halloweeny with theremins and organ and spooky noises, but better as a way to get in the spirit of things and celebrate or put on as background for other activities. The third is the at-present short list of uptempo/party songs, including things like The House of the Dead 2 with its strong driving beats, or the Pumpkin Hill rap from Sonic Adventure 2 or most Castlevania music, where the horror elements come from the game setting more than the mood of the piece itself. Hopefully you’ll find these categories useful, and naturally if you hate some of my choices you can always refine the lists to your taste. Happy Halloween, folks, and I’ll see you in Heck!
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WHAT IS GOING TO BE YOUR FINAL HALLOWEEN MOVIE FOR 2012? I feel great anxiety about making this decision.
ALSO YOU GUYS, I watched Hardware from 1990 and it’s so zany. Recommended as a zany sci-fi horror movie. The full movie is on YouTube and Hulu Plus.
Hey, I think I saw Hardware a few years back. Kinda cyber-punky or something? Was it mostly set in a completely red lit apartment with some long ass survival sequence going down in the kitchen? That was one weird movie.
As for tonight’s choice it won’t be final (I have a marathon planned with some friends tomorrow) but I also won’t be posting what it is until MIDNIGHT. I GUESS YOU’LL JUST HAVE TO TUNE IN!
Yeah that’s what Hardware is. Its South African director, Richard Stanley, came from music videos (Fields of the Nephilim, Public Image Limited, Renegade Soundwave) and Hardware feels like one long sci-fi music video from the early 90s, in like the best way, with optical effects and gnarly fades and “symbolism” and just like the whole bag, think almost like Tarsem Singh or Milcho Machevski, and with riffs on desert apocalypse and killer robots.
The long ass survival sequence is because the movie’s last third operates as a slasher flick, with the robot as the slasher, and they “kill” the robot three times and it keeps coming back, but not for like one last hit but to like continue fucking shit up.
Yeah, you remember it. Yeah.
FUUUUCK I won’t know the movie you are watching. WHAT SHOULD I WATCH? Thinking Dead Alive or Daughters of Darkness or Frankenhooker.