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Bobby and Dan from Clock Tower:The First Fear on the snes.
Β I've drawn and seen Bobby depicted in so many different ways, but his original in-game sprite will always remain my favorite, as he has this almost bulldog-like droopy deformed face that's distinctly childlike while also seeming really old. So that's what I wanted to depict here.
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Emulation is great thing. Unlike film, Video Games in general aren't treated as a serious art form worth preserving- emulation keeps game preservation alive. And the vast majority of games from the 20th century are out of print, so their respective copyright holders aren't making money from them anymore, so I don't consider it stealing.
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Bobby is a more cute than Dan (the ugliest big baby!)
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the sad thing you will never ever see a classic masterpiece of a game l8ke this yes theres the first fatal frame but that never truly hit the spot
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I have yet to find a game as scary as the original Clock Tower!
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which is very sad to be honest
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Yes, but it is great testament to the power of this game.Β
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very true I am curious about a game called remothered
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Yeah, I have no idea what's going on with that game. Is it actually out yet?
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the last I heard is was gettibg updated with the 3d engine for the pc chris-darril.deviantart.com/gaβ¦Β this artist is making the game
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Yeah, its been in development for at least 5-6 years.
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Awesome stuff, very nice depictions of both of them!
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Man, you really nailed Bobby in this picture. When I look at that 16-bit sprite with those vague facial features, this is the face I see. Mis-shaped, but not outright vomit inducing like his inspiration, Patua. Something that can be seen as human, but will most likely just cause a cringe over the vague resembelance. A human in a monstrous form, not a monster in a human form.
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I actually kinda look like Patua irl 0_0
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You nailed it.
I love looking at his sprite and seeing something that's almost bulldog-like, but moreso a cross between an old man and a young child.
The most effective monsters are those that resemble reality the most, but with something slightly off about them.
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Indeed. Tiptoeing between monstrous & the uncanny valley is how you produce the most efficiant monsters. There's also something to be said about a lack of identity. Something that doesn't seem to think on a human level seems more ominous as it is more unreasonable as a result.
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Exactly. You'd think a formula that simple to remember would be used more often.
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The sad fact is that subdlty in horror is constantly being bogged down by the fact that horror has always been plagued by the exploitation genre: the cesspool of entertainment. Horror has taken a nasty misstep where movies like Brain dead have become a standard (And no, I don't hate Brain dead, but that is just a popcorn movie & not really leginimate horror). Gross-out horror is all the rage with absolute fluff like Saw & the multitude of zombie movies out there still making money. It paints a misguided image that horror is just about gallons of blood & vicera all over a set & nothing else.
Horror's previous connection to Thrillers & Mystery stories is becoming increasingly more thin as the years go by, because apperantly building up a good scare is just too much to ask for. You gotta get mass-appeal to get your project anywhere in the industry & let's face it: horror has always been a niche market due to the fact that so many people just don't like to be scared. Instead, they can just watch the mindless gore of the modern horror approach & pretend to be scared, when really, a "scare" that doesn't creep under your skin for more than just 30 seconds is an absolute failure.
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I could go on for ages about the decline of horror. Gore is just about the most pathetic attempt to scare people, but its used almost exclusively now.
There's a couple slow burn horrors out there, but they are far out-numbered by the shitty films. One film I liked recently was The Innkeepers.
Horror is a lost art. For the genre that has the most capability to be memorable, there's sure a buttload of forgettable crap.
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Tell me about it. Although ironically enough to the subject in question, one of my favourites is John carpenter's "The thing". That movie knew that it can put people in an uneasy mood with gore, but also knew that it couldn't rely on it forever, so it threw in an excellent feeling of seclusion added with a story revolving around paranoia & it fully realized the outright nightmareish ideas behind the original "Who goes there?".
I also think that horror is the last genre ever that should be turned into popcorn entertainment, because horror, like you said, is an art. It takes alot to make horror that has you shiver from the inside, one of which being something that is the least common in horror: Relatable & likable characters! By making an emotional connection to the people that are in danger, you amplify our worry for their safety & as such make it all the more horrifying to see these people go through the events that they do. They don't need to be deep per-say, but you need to make us feel towards the characters & make us wanna see them survive in order for an already scary situation to be turned into an everlasting set peice to your nightmares.
Often times I feel like horror movies actively avoid making us care about the characters we should want to see survive. You know what I'm talking about, right? Those fucking douchebags/pranksters/obvious dumbasses in horror movies. When you make us WANT to see them get killed, it's not horror anymore. The suspenceful scene becomes self-gratification to see that moron out of the movie. This ass backwards design plagues even some of the good movies like original Texas chainsaw massacre.
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The Thing is one of my faves as well. Good synopsis you gave it. Yeah, my faves would have to be The Shining, Silence of the Lambs, and Jacob's Ladder, to name a few. Here's a list of some creepy movies, if you're interested.Β
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Yeah, the original Texas Chainsaw, that dude in the wheelchair, as well as most of the other teens, yeesh.
The only film I can think where that's a good thing is Cabin in the Woods, since it's a parody, and an extremely well done one at that.Β
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Oh yes, I love The shining, although it is funny how my sister never got creeped out once by it. She has a mind of steel. A backwards kind of look at horror. I can tell that she loves the genre, but she can stomach psychological horror exceptionally well & yet is absolutely petrified of gore horror. Yeah, I don't get it either.
I can forgive the original Texas chainsaw massacre for being an earlier step into the slasher genre & for the fact that the dinner table scene did actually cause a bit of a subtle panic in me with it's strange, unnerving & hectic excecution. Shit like Friday the 13th though is something I never got. Why is that considered a horror classic for being so by-the-numbers, predictable & almost artificial as a horror movie series?
I also like some of the old hammer horror movies. Their line of Frankenstein movies especially had one of the better movie interperetations of Victor's character. I just love Peter cushing to death, man.
It's funny though. Looking at this list, I had no idea that Akira was to be classified as "creepy". I never saw the movie, but I guess I have reason to go & see it now. All I knew previously was that it was a dystopian future kind of movie.
Also, distancing from movies, I think you should look in to "I have no mouth and I must scream" by Harlan ellison. It's a brilliant & eeire sci-fi short story about artificial intelligance. If you found yourself engaged in the short story, then I suggest going a bit further by either watching or playing for yourself the PC game of the same name in which Ellison essentually expands the original story by fleshing out characters & making a bigger story around the premace (The story of the original is more or less just setup to one big twist at the end).
I think another good parody of exploitation horror is Dead snow, if you've ever heard of that one. If you don't mind watching something foreign with no dubbing (it's just a humble Norwegian flick) & if you can still stomach any more nazi zombies, then you're in for a damn good, over-the-top zombie slapstick movie. Any movie that has a dude fighting a zombie while hanging over a cliff from another guys intestines is worth at least 1 viewing in my book. That & Evil Ed is also pretty funny.
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That is weird. Even as a kid, I was never scared by gore.
I probably need to see more of Hammer's films, but the campiness kinda turns me off, haha.Β Akira's ideas and much of its imagery are disturbing, it's not creepy through and through, but it has elements.
I haven't read nor played it, but I've seen playthroughs of the entire game, and know the basic synopsis of the story. Definitely one of the most chilling ideas and plots I've ever heard for sure.
I've seen Dead Snow, I thought it was alright. Β I'll have to add Evil Ed to my watch list.Β Another good parody film was Tucker and Dale vs. Evil, that was very good imo.Β
An American Werewolf in London is also one of my favorites, for its masterful blend of scary and also downright hilarious moments.
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I have wanted to see American Werewolf in london for quite a while, but it's one of those movies alongside the Gremlins movies & Carpenter's The thing that I can just never find (I spent 4 years looking for both of those movies before strangely finding them both from the same flee market on the same trip).
I have no mouth and I must scream is brilliant. I like it's subtle blend of horror & relieving moments like the silly-ass Ted's castle section or alot of Benny's funny remarks. There is also a great deal of tragedy to the whole thing. Not just in the humans & how they've been tortured for 109 years, but also in AM & how he arguably suffers the most out of all these characters.
Dead snow was something I really enjoyed (and am happy about a sequel), Evil ed is brilliant as a parody of exploitation horror (the whole movie centers around an exploitation movie editor who goes nuts from all those movies) & of course when talking about comedic horror, who could forget The later 2 Evil dead movies?
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It's a brilliant film.Β
Yeah, quite a surprising subject for a game, but it made an effective experience!
I probably liked Army of Darkness the best of the 3 originals. Aside from those and Cabin in the woods and maybe a few others, I can't think of many good intentionally comedic horror films. 90% of them are the Scary Movie franchise or something similar.
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I liked Evil dead 2 a bit more than Army of darkness, because AoD just felt like a Bruce cambell action movie, while Evil dead 2 still retained alot of that horror element. Another intentionally comedic horror flick that I hear alot about is The Lost skeleton of Cadavra. From what I can gather as someone who hasn't seen it, it's essentually an affenctionate spoof & a high-five to all the 1950's B-movies. Then there is Monster squad, another movie I hear alot about, but have never seen it. One could also count Gremlins as a silly monster mash movie, but I consider that more of a "My first horror movie" to kids than I would comedic horror.
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Monster Squad was alright, though I'm sure it could do with a rewatch.
Shaun of the Dead is one of my favorites in the genre as well.
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Oh right! I forgot about Shaun of the dead! Whenever I think of Edgar wright, my mind usually jumps to Hot fuzz. That movie is great, although for what is suppoest to & still is a comedy, the dramatic middle peice plays out a bit long for my tastes. I at least remember that being a bit faster dealt with in Hot fuzz.
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Yeah, as much as I like Shaun, I do like Hot Fuzz even better. I also love it as an homage to the original Wicker Man.
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Never saw the Wicker man. Neither the original or the Nicholas cage remake.
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Saw the original, the remake looks horrid, but I may see it just for laughs.
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All I know about the Wicker man remake is that Nicholas cage punches a dude while in a bear costume in the movie & that it spawned the famous "NOT THE BEES!" meme. Thank you Nostlagia critic.
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Yep, that's pretty much it in a nutshell. The original is very reminiscent of Hot Fuzz though, with the really off-feeling village of supposedly friendly people.
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Damn! You ve gotten monstruosly good at this! I remember your first depcitions of these and to see this! You ve come along way and have a long way to go as well! My hat to you sire!Β
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My journey as an artist will never be over!
Thanks very much man, never tire of drawing these two!
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Amazing!! Your depictions of the boys from the First Fear truly captures the terror from that game!
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Thanks man, it's a hard mood to capture!
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Oh, I could only imagine! *_*
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Β Β ugggh...
Haven't seen Clock Tower art from you in a while! Looks great and sufficiently creepy
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This is beautiful! Spooky, gruesome and beautiful!
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Wow, your depiction of Bobby really reminds me of the in game sprite. Fantastic art, man! Oh, and still one of the greatest games ever made.
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Maybe not one of the funnest, but still one of the most immersive and unique experiences.
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