Happy Halloween!

I love me some horror-fiction. Whether it’s a good horror movie, a video game like BioShock or the Resident Evil series, or an annual event like Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studio, which I attend every year (lots of drinks, lots of scarin’…enough said), I can’t get enough horror related shit.

So, in respect to the holiday, make sure you get your dose of Halloween, maybe Halloween 2, tonight.  Avoid Halloween 3 though as it is an abomination of the Halloween series, the horror genre as a whole for that matter.  It doesn’t even involve Michael Myers.  Actually, it’s in an alternate universe in which Halloween is just a movie (you see the original on a couple of different TVs throughout the film).  It’s terrible.  I don’t remember when it came out, I was too young, but if anyone ever reads this blog and does remember, do you know if there was any kind of backlash?  They took an established brand, with an established monster, and completely went in the opposite direction with it.  This 180 turn seems like it might have got some fans pissed off, it got me upset when I first saw it.  It still makes me wonder how they ever got the go ahead to make more Halloween movies.  But, maybe my hindsight is the problem here.  Maybe it wasn’t that well established at number three.  Maybe it was still early enough to mess around with the property.  Either way, it was a mistake.

Anyways,  since it’s Halloween, Gamespot posted an article, Flavors of Fear, that takes a look at some of the greatest horror-themed games of all time.  It’s really good…enjoy!