Dad’s Basement – #3a – Lovecraftian Horror and Games

Part of a Video Series on Video Game History

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Part One of a three-part series covering Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem and its proposed spiritual successor starts with a survey of Lovecraft, Lovecraftian horror, and Lovecraftian games.

Footage Sources:

1. “Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem”, Silicon Knights/Nintendo;
2. “1930s New York City”, John Meyer;
3. “Element 3D | A little Lovecraftian Cosmic Horror”, Josh Burns;
4. “The Mist”, Dimension Films/Darkwood Productions/MGM;
5. “Hellraiser”, New World Pictures;
6. “The Dunwich Horror”, Active Entertainment Finance/Bullet Films;
7. “At the Mountains of Madness”, Lucasfilm, Ltd.;
8. “New “At the Mountains of Madness” Trailer”, Prop Nomicon;
9. “The Shadow Over Innsmouth – Story Trailer “, Fog and Tea;
10. “H P Lovecraft’s The Shadow Out of Time”, Millroad Film/The Lone Animator;
11. “Teaser – The Colour Out of Space”, Final Boss Studio;
12. “Call of Cthulhu – Teaser trailer”, 24p Studio;
13. “The Rats in the Walls – Trailer”, Semper Fudge’s BodyBuilding;
14. “Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth”, Headfirst/Bethesda/2K Games;
15. “Elder Sign”, Fantasy Flight Games;
16. “Batman: Arkham Asylum”, Rocksteady Studios/Square Enix/Warner Bros.;
17. “Beware the Batman”, DC/Warner Bros./Cartoon Network;
18. “In the Mouth of Madness”, New Line Cinema;
19. “Prince of Darkness”, Universal Pictures;
20. “The Thing”, Universal Pictures;
21. “The Cabin in the Woods”, Mutant Enemy Productions/Lionsgate;
22. “Re-Animator”, Empire International Pictures;
23. “From Beyond”, Empire International Pictures;
24. “The Dunwich Horror”, American International Pictures;
25. “The Call of Cthulhu”, H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society;
26. “Dagon”, Lionsgate Entertainment;
27. “Raiders of the Loas Ark”, Lucasfilm, Ltd.;
28. “The Twilight Zone”, Paramount/CBS Television;
29. “The Outer Limits”, Daystar Productions/United Artists Television;
30. “Rod Serling’s Night Gallery”, NBC;
31. “Kolchak: The Night Stalker”, Francy Productions Inc./Universal Television;
32. “Cast a Deadly Spell”, HBO Films;
33. “Justice League”, DC/Warner Bros./Cartoon Network;
34. “Evil Dead 2”, Rosebud Releasing/Embassy Communications/De Laurentiis Entertainment Group;
35. “The Lurking Horror”, Infocom;
36. “Shadow of the Comet”, Infogrames;
37. “Prisoner of Ice”, Infogrames;
38. “Blood”, Monolith Productions/3D Realms/GT Interactive;
39. “Call of Cthulhu”, Chaosium;
40. “Call of Cthulhu: Destiny’s End”, Headfirst/Hip Games;
41. “Quake”, id Software/GT Interactive;
42. “Persona 2: Eternal Punishment”, Atlus;
43. “Demon’s Souls”, FromSoftware/SCE Japan Studio/Atlus;
44. “Hey There, Cthulhu”, Ebon Brooks;
45. “Pray for Death”, Light Shock Software/Virgin Interactive Entertainment;
46. “Cthulhu Saves the World”, Zeboyd Games;
47. “Silent Hill”, Konami;
48. “Silent Hill 3”, Konami;
49. “Silent Hill: Shattered Memories”, Konami;
50. “Dead Space”, Visceral Games/Electronic Arts;
51. “Dead Space 2”, Visceral Games/Electronic Arts;
52. “Dead Space 3”, Visceral Games/Electronic Arts;
53. “Elder Signs: Omens”, Fantasy Flight Games;
54. “Penumbra Collection”, Frictional Games/Paradox Interactive;
55. “Amnesia: The Dark Descent”, Frictional Games/THQ;
56. “Amnesisa: A Machine for Pigs”, The Chinese Room/Frictional Games;
57. “The Secret World”, Funcom/Electronic Arts;
58. “Shadow of the Eternals”, Precursor Games;