Halloween Horror! Frightening Games That Scared The Hell Out Of Me
As it’s now officially that time of year, when under-sized children wear witch costumes and fiend for sugar, over-sized children wear slutty witch costumes and fiend for Bacardi, and I invariably get stuck inside reading about international war law (who sets up a midterm for Nov. 1, I ask you!), I’ve decided to get into the “spirit of the season” and talk about some of my favourite video games, both classic and contemporary, that managed to scare the hell out of me. Though some of these titles may, by current standards, seem outdated, when I had gotten my hands on them they scared me shitless.
I’m also trying to focus on some titles that are somewhat “off the beaten path”, so to speak, in the horror genre, and I’m hoping to get away from the more well-known Silent Hill’s and Resident Evil’s in exchange for games you don’t always see written about ad nauseum during this time.
So here are, in no particular order, a couple of games that caused me to shake, shiver, and sleep with the lights on.
