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Jan 14, 2025 | 
dreadcentral.com | Luiz H.C
It’s no secret that video games have been borrowing from movies for decades. Be it Hideo Kojima lifting elements from Escape From New York for his Metal Gear Solid series or the xenomorphs inexplicably showing up in Contra, gaming has only become more cinematic over time.
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Dec 18, 2024 | 
dreadcentral.com | Luiz H.C
I’m obsessed with documentaries and reality TV about the paranormal. Not because I’m a believer, but because, even if the supernatural contents of these ghost and cryptid hunting shows are hoaxes perpetrated by the filmmakers, the stories they share will always say something real about the storytellers and their audience.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
dreadcentral.com | Luiz H.C
I’ve always found it fascinating how a niche character like Mike Mignola’s Hellboy managed to become a household name despite not being a part of either Marvel or DC.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
dreadcentral.com | Luiz H.C
Legends of Lake and Sea Monsters likely predate the invention of the wheel, so it makes sense that nearly every continent has its own localized version of the Loch Ness Monster. Having grown up in Canada, I was made aware of a plethora of bizarre creatures that allegedly inhabit the Great Lakes (from Champy to the Turtle Lake Monster), but none of them could ever match the popularity of British Columbia’s iconic horned mascot, the one and only Ogopogo.
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Aug 13, 2024 | 
dreadcentral.com | Luiz H.C
You don’t have to wander around the internet for long before you stumble across angry fans wishing that studios took the source material more seriously when developing big-screen adaptations of existing media. While I agree that there’s no point in adapting a story if the filmmakers aren’t really interested in engaging with the original narrative, it’s silly to assume that the only right way to adapt a work of art is by literally reproducing it in another medium.
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Apr 30, 2024 | 
dreadcentral.com | Luiz H.C
Nothing feels quite like classic Fallout. Sure, the iconic franchise may have been inspired by existing properties like Mad Max and A Boy and His Dog —not to mention Interplay’s own Wasteland—but I dare you to find any other piece of media that comes close to matching the same level of witty post-nuclear satire present in the Fallout series on Prime Video. This is exactly why I’ve always thought that the series was ripe for an adaptation.
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Mar 15, 2024 | 
dreadcentral.com | Luiz H.C
You had to have been there to really appreciate the anxiety associated with seeing your favorite videogame characters on the big screen back in the 2000s—also known as the dark ages of videogame adaptations. And if you’re going to discuss this dire period of popular culture, there’s no avoiding the infamous Uwe Boll.
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Mar 11, 2024 | 
dreadcentral.com | Luiz H.C
There’s very little to say about Shinji Mikami that hasn’t been said already. Creating the Resident EvilandDevil May Cry series is where most will know him. Maybe you were a fan of his collaborations with Goichi Suda on the eclectic standalone Killer 7 and Shadows of the Damned. But regardless of how you know him, it’s hard not to. Mikami stands as a giant among men when it comes to video game directors.
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Feb 12, 2024 | 
dreadcentral.com | Luiz H.C
Most gaming franchises have an expiration date. I mean, there are only so many times that the Umbrella Corporation can unleash horrific bioweapons onto unsuspecting players before it gets silly. That’s not even mentioning animatronic mascot jump-scare simulators. However, this isn’t always the case, and my favorite example of a seemingly evergreen gaming franchise is Konami’s Silent Hill series.
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Dec 12, 2023 | 
dreadcentral.com | Luiz H.C
There was a time when mainstream horror comics were a rare commodity here in the West, with their popularity having been sabotaged by Comics Code Authority censorship. This is actually what led to the hegemony of the family-friendly superhero stories that rule the medium to this day.
