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From Haunted Houses to Zombies: The Most Frightening Scary Horror Games

Do you enjoy the adrenaline rush of being scared out of your wits? Are you a fan of horror movies and looking for a new way to experience fear? Look no further. In this article, we will explore some of the most terrifying scary horror games that will leave you trembling with fear. From haunted houses to zombies, these games will push your limits and keep you on the edge of your seat.

Haunted Houses: A Classic Thrill

If you’re a fan of haunted houses, then horror games that feature eerie mansions or abandoned buildings are sure to provide an exhilarating experience. One such game that comes to mind is “Resident Evil 7: Biohazard.” Set in a dilapidated plantation house in rural Louisiana, this game combines atmospheric horror with intense gameplay. As you navigate through dark corridors and solve puzzles, you’ll encounter grotesque creatures and terrifying jump scares that will keep your heart pounding.

Another notable haunted house game is “Amnesia: The Dark Descent.” In this first-person survival horror game, players find themselves trapped inside an ancient castle with no memory of how they got there. With limited resources and a lurking presence that feeds on fear, this game is guaranteed to make even the bravest players feel vulnerable and terrified.

Zombies: A Never-Ending Nightmare

Zombies have been a staple in horror culture for decades, and scary horror games featuring these undead creatures are always popular among thrill-seekers. One standout title in this genre is “The Last of Us.” Set in a post-apocalyptic world overrun by infected humans turned into zombies, this action-adventure game blends intense combat with an emotionally gripping storyline. The realistic graphics and immersive gameplay make every encounter with the infected a heart-pounding experience.

For those seeking a more intense zombie experience, “Resident Evil 2” is a must-play. This remake of the classic survival horror game takes players back to Raccoon City, where a zombie outbreak has turned the population into flesh-eating monsters. With its atmospheric setting and relentless undead enemies, this game will keep you on your toes as you fight for survival.

Psychological Horror: A Mind-Bending Challenge

If you prefer horror games that mess with your mind, then psychological horror games are perfect for you. “Silent Hill 2” is often regarded as one of the best examples of this subgenre. As players control James Sunderland through the foggy town of Silent Hill, they unravel a deeply disturbing story filled with symbolism and psychological torment. The game’s haunting atmosphere and psychological twists will leave you questioning reality long after you’ve put down the controller.

Another mind-bending horror experience is “Layers of Fear.” In this first-person exploration game, players step into the shoes of a disturbed painter as they navigate through a constantly changing mansion. Delving into themes of madness and obsession, this game uses clever storytelling and visual trickery to create an unsettling experience that will keep you guessing until the very end.

Survival Horror: Fight or Flight

For those who enjoy intense gameplay and heart-pounding action, survival horror games provide an adrenaline-fueled experience like no other. “Outlast” is a prime example of this genre. Armed only with a camcorder, players must navigate through an abandoned psychiatric hospital filled with deranged inmates. With no means to defend yourself other than hiding or running away, every encounter becomes a tense battle for survival.

Another standout survival horror game is “Alien: Isolation.” Set fifteen years after the events of Ridley Scott’s iconic film “Alien,” players assume the role of Ellen Ripley’s daughter as she tries to survive aboard a space station infested by one relentless xenomorph. The game’s AI-driven alien enemy constantly adapts to the player’s actions, making every encounter a nerve-wracking game of cat-and-mouse.

In conclusion, if you’re a fan of being scared senseless, these scary horror games will provide an unforgettable experience. Whether you prefer haunted houses, zombies, psychological torment, or survival challenges, there is a game out there that will cater to your darkest fears. So grab your controller and prepare for a night of terror as you dive into these spine-chilling virtual worlds.

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What Is a Fireplace Insert?

Wood heat is a great way to keep your home warm in the winter months. If you’re thinking about relying on wood heat in your house, you may want to consider a fireplace insert. Here are some things you need to know about fireplace inserts.

What’s the Difference Between a Fireplace and a Fireplace Insert?

You may wonder why you should install a fireplace insert when you have a perfectly good fireplace. The answer is that traditional fireplaces aren’t efficient. They don’t have enough insulation, and are prone to heat loss. In other words, your fireplace uses more energy than it creates. Fireplace inserts have the insulation necessary to make wood heat efficient, and they have fan mechanisms that help circulate the heat through the room or house.

Fireplace Inserts Make Heating Easier

A wood-burning fireplace insert allows you to build your fire without leaning so far into the fireplace. Because they stand a little further out into the hearth, you can build a fire more easily without having to crouch down as far. With these fireplace inserts, you can even enjoy the crackle of a traditional fire. You can also buy fireplace inserts that rely on electricity, propane or natural gas. These inserts don’t require building a fire, and are even easier to start and maintain. And sometimes they actually look like a real fire.

Fireplace Inserts Save You Money and Keep You Safe

There’s an initial cost to purchasing a fireplace insert, of course, but in the long run you’ll save money. Because fireplace inserts are so energy efficient, you’ll find that your heating costs can decrease tremendously. The insulation and ventilation systems in fireplace inserts also reduce the amount of smoke and particulates in the air, which keeps your family safer and healthier.

Fireplace Inserts Can Also Be Environmentally Friendly

With the smoke that comes from wood burning inserts, you may wonder if they are good for the planet. Federal regulations require manufacturers to ensure that fireplace inserts are environmentally friendly. Burning dry or seasoned wood helps keep smoke down as well. Electric and gas inserts are also efficient, and minimize their impact on the environment. If you’re buying a new fireplace insert, you can rest assured that it’s good for the earth.

Keep Safety in Mind As You Look at Inserts

You should consider safety measures when you’re looking at purchasing a fireplace insert. You’ll want an insert that will heat the whole area you want to keep warm, but you should definitely consider the size of the insert. Make sure your mantel is high enough above the insert that it won’t combust, and make sure that the paint on your mantel is fireproof as well. You’ll also need to see if you should purchase a chimney liner that will drive the smoke upward and out of the house.

The Haunting

A study in fear escalates into a heart-stopping nightmare for a professor and three subjects trapped in a mysterious mansion. A study in fear escalates into a heart-stopping nightmare for a professor and three subjects trapped in a mysterious mansion. A study in fear escalates into a heart-stopping nightmare for a professor and three subjects trapped in a mysterious mansion.

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Shirley Jackson
Liam Neeson
Catherine Zeta-Jones
Owen Wilson
885 User reviews
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42 Metascore
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4 wins & 14 nominations

Dr. David Marrow

Luke Sanderson

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Mary Lambetta

Todd Hackett

Dr. Malcolm Keogh

Carolyn Crain
(as Kadina Halliday)

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Psych Patient #2
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Trivia Stephen King wrote the first draft of the script. When this fell through, he re-worked it into Rose Red.
Goofs (at around 19 mins) When Nell and Theo first meet, Theo puts on her leather jacket. In the following shot, Theo's reflection can be seen in the mirror behind Nell, and she puts on the jacket again.

Luke : Hey, you guys wanna hear something really scary? I just found this out. It turns out there's a more darker chapter in the Hugh Crain fairytale. Remember his lovely wife Renee? Well Renee, the town beauty, she didn't just die, she killed herself.

Theo : Really? He just told you that?

Luke : Yes, but you can't say anything because he actually swore me to secrecy.

Eleanor "Nell" Vance : Why did she kill herself?

Luke : The stillborn children story is more sinister, and maybe Hugh Crain was a horrible monster that drove her to it.

Eleanor "Nell" Vance : Monster? But he built this house with the woman he loved like the Taj Mahal.

Theo : The Taj Mahal wasn't a palace, it was a tomb. And equally overdone.

Crazy credits At the beginning, the music from Dreamwork's studio is not heard. Instead we hear the strange noises from inside Hill House.
Alternate versions The trailer features two little scenes which were not used in the final film. In the first scene, which was probably cut from the sequence where Eleanor and Theo go through the house for the first time, they find a door, which they open, only to find a brick wall. The second scene is a piece of dialogue between Eleanor and Theo. Eleanor asks "Have you ever kept something to yourself because you were afraid?" to which Theo answers "All the time."
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The Iconic ‘House on Haunted Hill’ Mansion Just Hit the Market in California

It’s always fun to imagine living inside of an iconic horror movie house, which is why we always like to report on such locations going up for grabs. The latest, brought to our attention by Variety , is the mansion from William Castle’s original House on Haunted Hill , which was actually also featured in Blade Runner .

The 6,000 square foot house, with four bedrooms and 3.5 bathrooms, is located in Los Angeles’ Los Feliz neighborhood, and it was built in 1924 by Lloyd Wright, son of Frank Lloyd Wright. The house is highly unique both inside and out, with the exterior being featured in House on Haunted Hill and the interior playing the role of Deckard’s apartment in Blade Runner .

Variety details, “ Positioned high on a .83-acre hillside parcel with cinematic views that sweep over the city, the main residence and guest quarters atop a detached garage — originally designed as a chauffeur’s apartment — together measure somewhat more than 6,000-square-feet with four bedrooms and 3.5 bathrooms. The landmarked residence has been featured in dozens of films, television shows, fashion shoots and music videos including Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Twin Peaks and, most famously, 1982’s Blade Runner .”

“ An exceptionally, almost dizzying long interior loggia with a mausoleum-like marble floor links multi-level interior spaces that feature the same textured blocks as the exterior along with delicately geometric leaded glass windows and hardwood floors ,” the site continues. “ The airy living room has a shimmering, mosaic-tiled fireplace and the cathedral-esque dining room offers a soaring, exposed-beam ceiling, another fireplace and a cleverly framed view of the downtown skyline through a frameless corner picture window. There’s also an intimate library, a black and white tiled vintage kitchen restored to functionality and, discretely tucked on a lower level, a games/screening room with open fireplace and curved bar .”

The mansion was severely damaged by an earthquake in 1994 but was subsequently restored, at great expense to its most recent owner. The current price tag? A staggering $23 million .

Check out a full gallery of inside and outside photos over on Variety .

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Lamashtu Revealed: Meet the Demon You Barely Saw in ‘The Exorcist: Believer’

Despite multiple red herrings, clues, and characters like Chris MacNeil ( Ellen Burstyn ) blaming Pazuzu for the dual possessions haunting The Exorcist: Believer , the entity responsible is actually a very different demonic figure from Mesopotamian lore: Lamashtu .

While the demon can be barely glimpsed in a quick flash on screen, makeup effects co-designers Chris Nelson and Vincent Van Dyke give a closer look at their stellar work via Instagram .

The Exorcist: Believer , now available on Digital, frequently makes callbacks and ties to the original film by writer William Peter Blatty and director William Friedkin . Moreover, it frequently alludes to Pazuzu as the one behind the mysterious disappearance, reappearance, and subsequent possessions of young girls Angela ( Lidya Jewett ) and Katherine ( Olivia O’Neill ). It seems reasonable that the demon first encountered by Father Merrin ( Max von Sydow ) might be back thanks to frequent references and calls for “Mother” and a seemingly intimate familiarity with Chris MacNeil. Director David Gordon Green , who co-wrote the screenplay with Peter Sattler from a story by Scott Teems ( Halloween Kills ) & Danny McBride ( Halloween trilogy), seems to intentionally keep the mythology vague, however, never fully explaining the demon’s presence or intent at all.

Spoilers ahead for the film’s finale: The closest we come to getting a feel for the demon’s presence comes during the climactic exorcism when the parents of both girls are forced to choose in a deceitful misdirect. The impulsive choice of one dooms Katherine to Hell, and a rapidly cut, abstract sequence gives flashes of the demons dragging her down to the pits.

In other words, if you blinked during this moment, you likely missed a glimpse of Lamashtu ( Lize Johnston ), the actual culprit responsible.

Nelson recently told Polygon in an interview, “You see [Lamashtu] very abstractly in the final exorcism. But we did an entire head-to-toe prosthetic suit, harness, wings, horns, a full realization of Lamashtu, which I’m very, very proud of and was very difficult. It was five and a half hours of makeup in, about an hour and a half makeup out, including a 12-hour shoot day.”

Not only is it a shame to barely see Nelson and Van Dyke’s work on screen, but the mythology behind the entity also feels wasted in The Exorcist: Believer .

In folklore, Lamashtu was a female demon that terrorized women during childbirth. Newborns were counted among her favorite foods. Aside from being a menace to pregnant women, Lamashtu also happened to be Pazuzu’s rival. The Met describes Pazuzu as the protective shield and defense against the vile Lamashtu.

None of that makes it into The Exorcist: Believer . While it remains to be seen if Green was waiting to flesh out (pun intended) Lamashtu in the sequel, at least we can admire the SFX work into bringing the unseen character to life through the images below.

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The Haunting (1999) [REVIEW]

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Sometimes you need to revisit things that you might have enjoyed when you were 14 years younger. Sometimes you need to watch PG-13 horror to guarantee that you won’t see too many boobs or gore. Sometimes you need to remember a time where Lili Taylor would be the star of a big budget haunted house movie directed by Jan de Bont. SOMETIMES ALL THESE THINGS HAPPEN AT ONCE! Things were really confusing in 1999 for a variety of reasons, but one reason was that both The Haunting was released, which was a remake of the 1963 film of the same name, and a remake of 1959 film The House on Haunted Hill was also released. WHAT THE HELL, GUYS?! They’re both remakes and they both have “haunt” in the name?! How am I supposed to keep these two straight! Well, with one being rated R and one being PG-13, it made it a little easier to know which one I was going to see in theaters. The joke is that I wasn’t 17 yet, get it? Maybe it was because I was a chicken shit person who wasn’t 17 yeat, but I remember being mildly creeped out when I saw this movie in theaters, despite ALL of the scares coming from CGI. I guess it’s time to see if something that entertained me when I was 14 can entertain me today!

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Now THOSE are some fucking outfits from the 1990’s right there.

After her mother passes away, Eleanor ( Lili Taylor ) is offered an opportunity to participate in a sleep study in a giant mansion. She accepts and meets Theo ( Catherine Zeta-Jones ) and Luke ( Owen Wilson ) who also agree to participate in Dr. David Marrow’s ( Liam Neeson ) experiment, even if it means being chained in at the mansion. The subjects aren’t told about the ghost stories of the supposed haunted house, but that doesn’t prevent them for experiencing strange things. When the subjects of the research start exploring the house, they find out that the guy who owned the house tried to have a large family but his wife couldn’t pop them out successfully, so he remarried and just killed kids who worked in a factory and buried their bones in his fireplace. He had spirit children all around him! Eleanor also learns that she is a descendant of this jerk’s second wife and that it was a spirit that got her involved in the sleep study! Whoa! Crazy! The spooky shit intensifies and Luke gets his head chopped off by a giant metal lion and I guess Lily gets the spirit of the previous home owner to come after her, but she leads him to a spirit door? Or something? And he gets sucked into it to go down to Hell? Eleanor dies in the process but then we see the ghosts of the little kids bringing her up to Heaven! Good job! Theo and Dr. Marrow then wait for the gates to be unchained so they can walk towards other movies that get better reviews and make them superstars.

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Don’t worry, I’m sure NOTHING weird or creepy could happen in a room like this!

I’m sure plenty of people have memories of this movie being terrible, but come on guys, it’s not THAT bad. Okay, well, it is BAD, but I’ve seen plenty worse. The plot isn’t all that bad, which might be why we’ve seen similar plots in horror movies for decades upon decades. The characters were at least mildly watered-down from other similar, more cartoonish stereotypes we see in movies like these, and the entire cast are generally pretty decent actors. I think the biggest complaint, which is a valid one, was that there isn’t really any tension being built in the film that isn’t completely reliant on CGI. I really don’t remember a single special effect that was achieved practically, and in 1999, people were really excited about what computers could do so Jan de Bont went WAY overboard with showing what computers could do instead of what computers should do. If this movie was made a few decades prior, the effects would have been kind of cheesy and silly, but it would’ve given a little bit of heart to a movie like that. Instead, all of these characters just run around reacting to things that clearly weren’t there while the audience doesn’t connect with any of the imagery that’s intended to be “scary” and everything feels just really shallow and sterile. There’s a reason why gimmicky movies like this or Thirteen Ghosts don’t really work that well as remakes, because you’re completely removing the thing that made the originals entertaining. Yes, it’s a classic ghost story which we’ve seen reinvented and tweaked time and time again over the decades, so it’s not absolutely terrible, but unless you have a thing for a somewhat bisexual Catherine Zeta-Jones, this movie’s not worth a second viewing. Although, I guess saying “bisexual Catherine Zeta-Jones” will interest you, but you also have Owen Wilson attacking a painting with a candlestick.

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