Still, the game retains a slightly disturbing and decidedly surreal visual quality that makes it stand out and the game play is solid across nearly of the numerous ports and sequels that were released. Modern video game consoles are capable of delivering nearly photo realistic terror have made early horror games like Splatterhouse into quaint, Halloween themed novelties. Though it was a path finder in the genre of horror video games, Splatterhouse (Like the early Castlevania series) is no longer held up as an example of terrifying entertainment.

But where Castlevania took a note from European literature and folklore, Splatterhouse lifted its concepts straight from classic 80’s era fright movies such as Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and Evil Dead. Splatterhouse is one of the original horror based video games, a distinction it shares with the Castlevania franchise. It is a classic story of love, and loss, and love again along with the pools of blood, drippings of gore, and gobs of ichor that make romance all the more sweet. For this month’s installment we look to a classic tale of love in the speculative dramatic feature “Splatterhouse”, a treatise on the lengths an academic beleaguered by paranormal antagonistic forces will go to in order to reunite with his lady fair.

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