Favorite dungeons in cinema (may not be a comprehensive list): Big Trouble in Little China; As Above, So Below; The Raid: Redemption; Dredd; The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; Cube; House; House II: The Second Story; Raiders of the Lost Ark; Krull; Star Wars; Hellraiser; Hellbound: Hellraiser II; Silent Hill; Alien; Aliens; Alien: Resurrection; Prometheus; Dark City; Event Horizon; Escape from New York; Labyrinth; Dawn of the Dead; Die Hard
Favorite wilderness adventures/hexcrawls/pointcrawls in cinema (definitely not a comprehensive list): Pitch Black; Riddick; Conquest; The Lord of the Rings (all three); Dead Man; Valhalla Rising; Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior; Mad Max: Fury Road; Conan the Barbarian; Conan the Destroyer; Krull; Pathfinder; Army of Darkness; Monty Python and the Holy Grail; The Burrowers; The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly; Flesh+Blood; Cyborg; The Revenant; The Wizard of Oz; The Road; Undead; Predator; Predators; Apocalypse Now; Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx
Movies with characters I would love to play in D&D or some other fantasy adventure RPG some day (not comprehensive): House II: The Second Story; Big Trouble in Little China; Dredd; Escape from New York; Total Recall; Dead Man; Yor, the Hunter from the Future
Movies with characters I would love to play in Call of Cthulhu some day (not comprehensive): Drive; Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans; They Live; Escape from New York; Evil Dead II; John Dies at the End; Return of the Living Dead; Re-Animator; Reservoir Dogs; Pulp Fiction; Brick; The Legend of Hell House; The Thing
Favorite zombies in cinema: Return of the Living Dead; Dead Alive/Braindead; Re-Animator; Cemetery Man/Dellamorte Dellamore; The Evil Dead series
Favorite romance movie: Drive
Favorite superhero-movie-disguised-as-film-noir: Sin City
Favorite film-noir-disguised-as-superhero-movie: The Dark Knight
Favorite depiction of retired 20th-level fighters: Kill Bill
Favorite cinematic depiction of Mars/favorite extraterrestrial colony: Total Recall
Favorite vampire movie most in need of being turned into a survival horror game: 30 Days of Night
Favorite accidental low-budget movie adaptation of The Legend of Zelda on LSD (before the video game series even existed): Conquest
Favorite point-and-click adventure game disguised as a movie: 10 Cloverfield Lane
Favorite PSA about the dangers of unsterilized body modification and inattentive driving: Tetsuo: The Iron Man
Favorite H. P. Lovecraft adaptation that isn't actually adapted from any particular H. P. Lovecraft story: In the Mouth of Madness
Favorite film adaptation that purposefully serves as a giant middle finger to its source material: Starship Troopers
Favorite cinematic depiction of murder by broken bicycle: Prince of Darkness
Favorite cinematic depiction of a guy shooting at a bat: Black Sunday
Favorite killer vehicle movie based on a Stephen King story, and yes I know the other one you're thinking of is directed by John Carpenter, and yes I will fight you over this: Maximum Overdrive
Need inspiration for your next adventure or gaming session? Roll on this table for a movie from which to borrow elements. (The first 73 of these were listed above. The next 18 are pulled from that G+ thread I mentioned earlier; I've only included movies that I've already seen. The last 9 are just movies I pulled out of my ass because I like them, and I apparently keep movies I like in my ass.)
- 10 Cloverfield Lane
- 30 Days of Night
- Alien
- Alien: Resurrection
- Aliens
- Apocalypse Now
- Army of Darkness
- As Above, So Below
- Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
- Big Trouble in Little China
- Black Sunday
- Brick
- Cemetery Man/Dellamorte Dellamore
- Conan the Barbarian
- Conan the Destroyer
- Conquest
- Cube
- Cyborg
- Dark City
- Dawn of the Dead
- Dead Alive/Braindead
- Dead Man
- Die Hard
- Dredd
- Drive
- Escape from New York
- Event Horizon
- Evil Dead II
- Flesh+Blood
- Hellbound: Hellraiser II
- Hellraiser
- House
- House II: The Second Story
- In the Mouth of Madness
- John Dies at the End
- Kill Bill
- Krull
- Labyrinth
- Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx
- Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
- Mad Max: Fury Road
- Maximum Overdrive
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- Pathfinder
- Pitch Black
- Predator
- Predators
- Prince of Darkness
- Prometheus
- Pulp Fiction
- Raiders of the Lost Ark
- Re-Animator
- Reservoir Dogs
- Return of the Living Dead
- Riddick
- Silent Hill
- Sin City
- Star Wars
- Starship Troopers
- Tetsuo: The Iron Man
- The Burrowers
- The Dark Knight
- The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
- The Legend of Hell House
- The Lord of the Rings
- The Raid: Redemption
- The Revenant
- The Road
- The Wizard of Oz
- They Live
- Total Recall
- Undead
- Valhalla Rising
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Black Death
- C.H.U.D.
- Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
- Live and Let Die
- Oculus
- Ravenous
- Sauna
- Season of the Witch
- Sleepy Hollow
- The Brothers Grimm
- The Fountain
- The Mist
- The Prestige
- The Thing
- The Witch
- They're Watching
- Triangle
- Blade Runner
- Desperado
- Dune
- First Blood
- Johnny Mnemonic
- Return of the Killer Tomatoes!
- The Beyond
- The Stuff
- Videodrome
It's cool stuff. I would've put The Thing a lot higher, though it's not really a Dungeon or Wilderness or the like. But I think it'd make a pretty good CoC scenario, as long as people are fine with some PvP.
ReplyDeleteYou might also want to check out The Void, which looks neat, and very Call-of-Cthulhu influenced. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4UYuY0Fldo Not out yet, sadly.
I'll have to check out The Void. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.
DeleteThe Thing is one of my favorite movies of all time. (I'm a big John Carpenter fan, in case you couldn't tell.) :D This list isn't really put in any kind of "best-to-worst" order or anything like that, which is why the movie isn't "higher." That said, in hindsight I should have put The Thing on my list of must-play Call of Cthulhu characters. But yeah, this isn't necessarily a list of my favorite movies, just a list of movies that I think might work well as inspirational material for RPGs (or that I could get a cheap joke out of).
This is truly a great list, man. But it looks like there's a typo--you accidentally listed Johnny Mnemonic as a recommended movie. :D
ReplyDeleteSuch a great collection. The only ones of my favorite movies that are missing are Blade Runner and Ghost in the Shell, though they aren't exactly gameable adventures.
ReplyDeleteI'd recommend watching them if you haven't. Actually, I do recommend weatching them even then-
Thank you!
DeleteOh yeah, Blade Runner is one of my favorite movies. I have Roy Batty's final speech hanging on the wall over my TV. I still need to check out Ghost in the Shell, though. But this isn't a "favorite movies of all time" list so much as a "movies that fall into ridiculously specific, semi-serious categories" list. :P