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This guy pulls it off better but these honestly just make them look like walrus people

Incredible reveal of the vampire restaurant by uncovering a huge mirror, and then they practically ruin it with the goofiest vampire teeth I've ever seen on film

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You ever see Halloween III? Apparently Kneale was involved early on, though he doesn't show up in the credits if I recall. You can feel his influence for sure.

(All but one are actually Tales from the Crypt stories, and the one is from Shock Suspenstories)

Just started the Amicus Vault of Horror movie and not only is there no Vault Keeper, apparently there's not a single story actually adapted from the VoH comic in this thing.

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funbolt @funbolt0079.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Come get your mans then Pope, practically every time I visit my parents now they have some new hideous AI-generated card of a saint that the Padre Pio Foundation sent them

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8bitjoystick (Jacob) @8bitjoystick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Finally. I feel like the arcade version was much harder than the TG16 port for some reason. Last time I played the port I kind of breezed through, but I had a ton of trouble on Stage V on the arcade original.

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Peak computer aesthetics in Zeta Gundam

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Tom Aznable @tomaznable.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Making my way through the Amicus horror anthology

Asylum (1972)
Tales from the Crypt (1972)
The House That Dripped Blood (1971)
Torture Garden (1967)

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Tom Aznable @tomaznable.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Okay fine, I'll stop playing horror-themed arcade games and being mad at how bad I am at original Splatterhouse and watch Vault of Horror

Tom Aznable @tomaznable.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm not sure if the Night Slashers core is entirely up to snuff but I do know this is teen wolf

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 01/10/2026

Several weeks ago, Phil Tippett's legendary animation studio in Berkeley, CA closed. An anonymous hero noticed a folder of CDs. This turned out to be hundreds of unseen hi-res images and videos from Star Wars, Robocop, Jurassic Park, etc. ~90 isos for you to browse: archive.org/details/tipp...

A casual Star Wars alien fella at the cantina, in a sun faded, reddish photo. Someone will be mad at me for not knowing who this is.

Phil, a balding Caucasian man, poses a model of the garthok, an antagonist from the Coneheads movie.

Phil, a balding caucasian man, points at some CG on a CRT computer monitor, as a younger man looks on. The screen shows a model of a dinosaur attacking a jeep, while there's an actual physical model of that event in the foreground for reference.

an isolated shot of a star wars vehicle. Sorry, I don't know star wars lol

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Tom Aznable @tomaznable.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

He's not the actual director, but still! Do I have him to blame for there being no invincibility after you respawn? Because I'm sorry, in an arcade game that is complete bullshit

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Tom Aznable @tomaznable.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm sorry, this crummy SD Gundam arcade game was designed by WHO!?

Enroll for SD Gundam: Rainbow Wars. Kenji Eno (of D fame) is credited as Designer.

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Yeah, but those would only work on the PSX core is my understanding. You wouldn't be able to hook a guncon up to the PSX controller ports and use them on arcade House of the Dead or something.

Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 30/09/2026

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'The Victor’ Winsor Mccay, 1914

skeleton holding a sword aloft as it stands on a corpse strewn field
a bat flies past the moon behind

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Yup, I actually mentioned that in the alt text!

I don't know much about the state of core development but Update_All snagged it when I set up my SD Card.

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What if Captain Marvel had robot arms and cowboy boots

Jumping back to the aforementioned oddly-titled shmup, you can add it to list of arcade shooters that just blatantly lift mobile suits from Gundam as enemies on occasion

Miniboss from Stage 2 of arcade game Hotdog Storm, resembling a Hamma Hamma lifting off from a Dodai.

Miniboss from Stage 3 of arcade game Hotdog Storm, resembling a Baund Doc.

NRX-055 Baund Doc (Gates Capa colors) from Zeta Gundam

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Yeah, I ended up playing through a whole bunch of it!

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Oh believe me I have, but I was also pretty impressed by the few minutes I played of Night Slashers, Denjin Makai, and Gaia Crusaders. Pretty sure I'd never touched any of those before.

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This is almost certainly it. What a bizarre soundtrack this thing has – obvious slowed down Prince samples that were definitely not cleared... I wonder where "everybody funky" comes from? bsky.app/profile/sasu...

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YouTube video by Punch Pedia

Another one that just absolutely threw me for a loop — am I hearing things or does the sample here drop an F-bomb during DD Crew's attract mode? youtu.be/IXgM52r5Zvw

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D.D. Crew Arcade Attract

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Now that I have a Superstation I've been plunging into all these great arcade games I've never even heard of. Case in point, I PROMISE you won't be prepared for this shmup's title reveal

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Well my Superstation came in today and uh....wow huh it's 2AM

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Starting the segment "The Weird Tailor" and I was struck with such deja vu, I KNEW I'd seen it somewhere in my plunge into anthology horror TV... sure enough, it was previously adapted as part of Boris Karloff's Thriller!!

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The prices are going up specifically because they're produced in smaller quantities.

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Anyway looks like "Asylum" is adapting more Robert Bloch stories so I'm very much game. Amicus did 7 of these (with two others that are kind of spiritually part of the series) and three of them are Bloch adapting his own work.

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I'm currently questing through the Amicus horror anthologies, and they're just all over the place streaming-wise. A third I can watch on Tubi, a third on Hoopla, and like a third just aren't legitimately streaming anyplace.

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Adblock is great if I'm watching on my laptop but not really an option if I'm watching on a TV or off a Roku stick

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I thank my stars anytime something is available on Hoopla via my library card

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Looking for old horror films now just leads to constant reminders of how shit things are. Watching ad-supported streaming? Nothing but gambling ads. Checking YouTube? Get stunlocked by hideous AI thumbnails. How is it watching movies on shady Russian social media sites has become the best option?

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Also, he's played by the same guy as the Supreme Being in Time Bandits!

To be fair, this guy more closely resembles the Vault Keeper from the original EC comics.