Good News: The Friday the 13th Game has been Funded
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Video Games
Nazi Zombies are Finally Back!
I’ve been playing video games for a over twenty years, starting with the original NES, and I can say with all confidence, that developer Treyarch‘s Nazi Zombies is far and above the most fun I’ve ever had playing any video game, ever. Just to give you an idea of how insanely fun it is, keep …
Video Game Visions: Continuing My 8-Bit Adventure with the NECA Dog Alien
A friend recently asked me what I considered to be the coolest horror toy ever released, and to my surprise the answer fell out of my mouth without even taking a few seconds to think about it – The NECA video game Jason Voorhees. With his amazing display box that recreates the game packaging, his …
From the Archives: Friday the 13th Crash Magazine Cover Art 1985
Toy adverts, movie promos, magazine articles, random clippings – I’ve collected them all over the last 35+ years and now it’s time to pull them out of the darkness and get them digitally immortalized online, so future generations can study them, ponder them and hopefully shout “COOL” every now and then … Today I present …
Seeing Another World: Halloween Love Meets Gus Fink
I’ve always believed that one of the biggest moments in any new relationship is the first time you visit your partners home. You can THINK you know someone fairly well after a few dates and a trip to the cinema, but if you want to REALLY know what you are getting into you need to …
Four Planned Horror Movie Video Games That Were Never Released
Video games were a big topic of discussion here on Halloween Love last week, as we talked about the meteoric pop-culture rise of Nintendo’s 8-bit Jason Voorhees as well as a previous Friday the 13th video game that has been forgotten by time. On a somewhat related note, today we wanted to shine the spotlight …
Remembering the ‘Friday the 13th’ Video Game That Time Forgot
Yesterday here on Halloween Love we delved deep into the decades-later phenomenon the 1989 Friday the 13th Nintendo game has recently spawned, taking a look at the various toys and products that have come in the wake of NECA’s purple and blue Jason Voorhees action figure. The game, made by LJN, is often considered by …
Nintendo’s Jason Voorhees: From Oddity to Icon
Like all of the big horror icons, Jason Voorhees has gone through several changes throughout his decades-spanning reign of cinematic terror. When he first came onto the scene he wore a bag over his head, replaced in the following sequel with a soon-to-be-iconic hockey mask, and he even changed from a human monster to an …
The Most Awesome Images Found on Social Media: 7/14-7/18
We’ve reached the end of another week – thank god! – which means it’s time to once again take a look at the coolest, weirdest and/or most awesome images that I’ve stumbled across on social media this past week. So let’s get right to it, shall we?! There’s no movie on the horizon that I’m …
Painted Smiles: The Spooky Art of Bioshock Recreated by Stefan Petit
One of the most intense horror experiences I have enjoyed in recent years didn’t come from a movie or TV show … It came in the form of a video game called Bioshock and its sequel Bioshock 2. Bioshock is pure horror, the undersea city of Rapture that you have to survive a journey through …