10 Best Video Games Based On Movies

10. John Carpenter's The Thing

Survival Horror video games always strive to invert the typical video game relationship between empowerment and the player. Whereas most games seek to make you feel like a world-beating badass, horror seeks to strip you of this and make you feel like a dirty little grub crying out to an uncaring world.

The Thing video game takes this to the absolute extreme, making you not only feel utterly helpless at the best of times but also undermines your trust in your team to the point where paranoia truly does set in.

This game's central gimmick is that your fellow soldiers can turn on you at any time, either through being assimilated or by losing their own grasp on reality. As such the title not only plays out as a terrifying bug hunt experience but also sees you having to gift precious ammo and resources to keep the few remaining survivors on your side.

This creates an atmosphere to taught it feels like it's tearing you limb from limb, something which the horrifying monsters of the title are more than happy to help you achieve. It's a stunningly well-made game that manages to expand on the lore, even if it's non-canon, making it a must-play for fans of John Carpenter's classic.