![]() ![]() ![]() During the latter, the announcer (having completed his description of Splatterhouse's premise) loudly asks the viewers, " You say you wanna play his game?" The ad only twice shows his head, wearing the blood-red Terror Mask once when he wields a circular saw, again when he swings the finished 2X4 towards the camera. The TurboGrafx-16 port commercial intercuts clips of the game with a live-action Rick dragging a log into a dark, foggy workshop, and sawing it down into a 2X4 plank.The final boss, Hell Chaos ◊, is a giant rotting head and hands.It's more apparent in the arcade version, where its water breaks when it dies (which is also an instant kill, by the way). And the boss is a pillar of meat with the bulging heart of the house that sends off millions of these "babies". The fantastically creepy (if not flat-out wrong) Womb Level in the first game where the only enemies are horrid fetuses that first fly off in a sort of bubble, then jump on you and drain your life away.Then as you fight her, she seems to painfully switch back and forth between her human and monster forms. First of all, you saw the monsters surrounding Jennifer just before she transforms, which may have just been the end of whatever arcane ritual was required to transform her. There are horrifying implications before and during the ensuing boss fight.Your girlfriend, Jennifer, who you're supposed to rescue instead mutates into a hideous clawed monstrosity you have to kill, and its evil laugh doesn't make things any better.And why wouldn't he, thanks to the music playing in the background]? On the flipside, it becomes funny considering that it sounds like he's saying "I'm a- groovin'!".The Necromancer's demonic chanting is creepy as all get-out.Said monster is an inverted cross with demonic masks firing at you. One of the bosses, the Evil Cross, is inside an abandoned church in the original arcade version.The music doesn't help, sounding completely deranged, and as the fight progresses, it begins to sound more and more insane. When you beat it, it pulls off a Last Ditch Move, having a chandelier fall from the ceiling (which is an instant death, whether you're using cheats or not). It then proceeds to possess a chair, three knives, and a creepy painting of an eyeball. In this game, the angry ghost violently shakes the room around, making stuff fall from the ceiling. The Stage 2 boss: the Poltergeist, who would later return as a recurring boss in the other Splatterhouse games.The first boss is a room full of shredded human flesh, from which giant leeches leap out and try to attach themselves to you.The first level has you lopping the heads off flayed ghouls, while you stride calmly past partially vivisected people in cages and strewn on the floor.It cost 25¢ to play, plus $500 in therapy bills. The arcade game employed some trick with its sound to make the effects of the carnage seem to be beamed directly into your inner ear.Jennifer has become a mindless beast, and you'd mostly want to too, after seeing these horrors.The Splatterhouse series is one of the most Body Horror-filled games you will ever find in a video game since it graced the arcades, TurboGrafx-16, and the Sega Genesis. ![]()
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