10 Video Games Based On Horror Movies You've Completely Forgotten About
Have you played any of these horror movie video games from back in the day?
It's quite unique to get a video game adapted from, or based on, a horror movie. There are only a handful of them in existence, and in these contemporary times in which we live, they're about as common as a unicorn.
Instead of fully-fledged games derived from classic movies, our favourite horror icons are usually reduced to cameo appearances in the latest Mortal Kombat game or in some Dead By Daylight DLC.
That's not to say those appearances are unwelcome, but the world aches for more proper video games based on horror movies. After all, in many cases, it's been far too long. Though it's still tough to scrape the sour taste of Illfonic's multiplayer mess Friday the 13th from our palettes, there is hope for the future. Evil Dead: The Game arrives this year, and we've recently been teased by another Aliens game - Fireteam.
However, there's still time to wait for those releases, so what better way to get our horror fix from revisiting the video game adaptations we've long forgotten about?
Dust off your retro consoles, blow out the cartridge slot, and boot up one of these horror games you've long forgotten about.
10. Chucky: Slash And Dash
It's an absolute travesty that in the 33 years since the very first Child's Play movie arrived back in 1988, that there has only ever been one game based on the franchise.
That's right, one blooming game, and it arrived 25 full years after we first met the murderous good guy doll. Interestingly, despite the age of the movie franchise, this entry is also the youngest on this entire list.
If Chucky: Slash and Dash sounds unfamiliar to you, then don't beat yourself up. It was a mobile release that was only available on iOS, and is seemingly unavailable to download anymore. So, if you're only hearing about it now, or you're an Android user, tough sh*t because you ain't playing it.
The game itself attempted to cash in on the success of the endless runner genre that was rife among smartphones back in the early 2010s, thanks to the likes of Temple Run. Despite the popularity of that unusual subgenre at the time, Chucky's first foray into the gaming world was as much of a hit as Seed of Chucky.