Well, we love movies and we love games. Which is why we’ve rounded up the 10 best movies based on famous games. They include everything from the zombie action of Resident Evil to the fluffiest Pokémon detective.
It seems that games and feature films are often two worlds that don’t want to get along. To say the least, our gamer hearts have been consistently filled with disappointment in the past when Hollywood has tried to ride the wave of success of popular gaming brands. Still, here and there they appear: those cinematic bright spots that can inspire us just as much as their gaming originals.
The adaptation of one of the most popular game franchises, Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, is in the starting blocks and will once again fuel the eternal discussion about good and bad video game adaptations. Therefore, in the Gazettely editorial team, we decided to sit down together and ask ourselves the question: Which movies based on video game are actually the best? Or rather, which ones got us the least excited?
We came up with a list of 10 films that are based on games, all of which were fascinating, captivating, scary, or simply excellently entertaining in their own way. We have restricted ourselves to live-action films and ignored animated movies and series (even if there are excellent adaptations such as Castlevania and Arcane) for this ranking. Have fun browsing through our ranking. What do your top lists look like?
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On many lists of the best video game adaptations, Silent Hill is one of the front runners. In this regard, Christophe Gans’ (Pact of the Wolves) adaptation of the 1999 survival horror game probably surprised many. During a time when video game adaptations were laughed at from an artistic standpoint, Silent Hill looked simply scrumptious.
The everlasting rain of ash, the sickeningly fleshy horror visions and the nightmare creatures (such as the iconic “Pyramid Head”), which were implemented very authentically, particularly for fans, all create an incredibly dense atmosphere. With all the references to the video game template, Silent Hill also functions brilliantly as a shocker: Radha Mitchell and Sean Bean portray their roles with believable horror and the story, which at times is strongly detached from the template, can completely convince even Playstation detractors.
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