High Definition horror for the ultimate Halloween night in…
It’s scary season again and what better way to have yourself a spooky Halloween than wedging yourself in front of your PLAYSTATION®3 with some friends for an all-night High Definition fright fest. From vampires, to masked maniacs and the walking dead, here is a selection of great horror films on Blu-ray Disc that should be spinning in your PS3 on the scariest night of the year.
They Suck!
The Fresh Prince of Bel Air’s Will Smith is Robert Neville, the last man on earth in I Am Legend, an epically eerie, post apocalyptic tale of one man’s desperate attempts to find a cure for a plague that has wiped out the entire human race.
Crammed with heart racing action and an astounding vision of a desolate Manhattan, you soon find out that Robert Neville is not alone in the city. Mutant plague victims lurk in the shadows watching his every move. I Am Legend is a nail biting film that will have you clutching for the cushion!
30 Days Of Night is based on the best selling comic book series by famed horror writer Steve Niles and stars Hollywood heart throb Josh Hartnett and Home & Away’s Melissa George. Set in the secluded frozen town of Barrow, Alaska, the story takes place over the 30 days that Barrow is without sun.
What the townsfolk don’t know is that once the sun sets and night falls, something terrifying comes from out of the frozen wasteland: vampires.
30 Days Of Night is absolutely terrifying stuff. Watch this one in the dark with all your friends; it’s got sharp fangs. .
Ghouls and Ghosts!
Nothing puts the frighteners on you like this terror tale, Poltergeist.
The spectacular spooker sees suburbanites Steve and Diane Freeling suddenly experiencing strange paranormal activity in their home. Chairs are moving of their own accord and appliances begin to float in thin air but excitement and awe quickly turn to terror when the ghastly ghosts pull their daughter Carol Anne into the spirit world.
Enter parapsychologists and an exorcist who must battle the ghouls, exorcise the Freeling’s home and save their daughter from the clutches of a terrifying evil that lurks behind their walls.
Survival Horror
A Halloween horror round-up would not be complete without a look at scary movies based on games. PlayStation fans were taken to the edge and back with Capcom’s survival horror masterpiece Resident Evil back in 1996, and five years the movie followed.
Directed by Paul Anderson, Resident Evil stuck to the formula that made the games such a success: the walking dead! Set in Racoon City, Resident Evil begins with a huge underground facility known as The Hive accidentally unleashing a deadly and mutating virus that kills all of its employees, and turns the dead into zombies!
It’s down to Alice and a team of highly trained super commandos to penetrate The Hive in order to stop the spreading of the T-Virus before it engulfs humanity entirely. Facing the undead, an evil supercomputer called the Red Queen and the hideous Licker creature, Alice is faced with insurmountable odds. Will they survive and what will be left of them?
While Capcom was riding high on the success of the Resident Evil movies, Konami joined the fearful fray in 2006 with its big screen version of Silent Hill, an equally terrifying horror that brought put Pyramid Head on the big screen.
The film sees Rose, played by Radha Mitchell, take her young daughter Sharon to the town of Silent Hill, a place she keeps mentioning from her dreams. But once they get there, things take a twist when Sharon disappears and Rose is trapped at the entrance to the deserted, dream-like town.
As she moves deeper and deeper in to the cursed town, she finds herself intertwined in terror and mystery as she uncovers the bizarre and disturbing past of the town that is Silent Hill. And like the videogame, it will scare you senseless!
Halloween Howlers
Completing any Halloween Blu-ray Disc marathon should be the classic slasher movie of the same name, John Carpenter’s Halloween. Restored in full on Blu-ray Disc, it was the responsible for putting Jamie Lee Curtis on the map and creating an entire horror genre all of its own known as The Slasher. Consider it the icing on the cake for this ultimate High Definition Halloween night in.
