So, 80's horror...(Part 2)

Part 1.

Last time, I was crying that the 80's slasher/monster franchises weren't putting out new content anymore.

Well, that hasn't changed so much, but I've changed my perspective.

BOOKS, past-me, you dummy!!

They even Kevin Bacon to the stuff you like!

Let's start with yesterday's discovery...

Sherlock Holmes and the Servants of Hell (2016)

See here.

Combined with all the Sherlock meets Cthulhu books, it gets Pinhead into the Lovecraft world.

Ring Shout (2020)

Army of Darkness vs Re-Animator (2005)

See here and here.

The former has the Raimi-Necronomicon, so you can count it as an Evil Dead prequel.

The latter full-blown has Ash meet Herbert West, Lovecraft's ghost, and Cthulhu.

You can make the Evil Dead link with either, or both.

And once you have Evil Dead....

Freddy vs Jason vs Ash (2007)

...brings in Freddy and Jason.

Duh, it's in the title.

And then...

Bride of Chucky (1998)

...has Jason's mask, Freddy's glove, Michael Meyers's mask, and Leatherface's chainsaw in the evidence locker of the police station.

So, that brings in Michael, Leatherface, Chucky, and Tiffany.

Swamp Thing: Dark Genesis (1991)

Batman/Aliens (1997)

See here, and here.

Swamp Thing meets a Lovecraftian goo-thing that telepathically inspired Lovecraft.

That adventure coming just off Swamp Thing fighting Batman.

Then, Batman met the Xenomorph in "Batman/Alien".

And both things were drawn by Berni Wrightson.

So, like Hellraiser, the Lovecraft inspired thing is now officially linked up to Lovecraft-verse.

The Night-Gaunts in "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath" are pretty much proto-Xenomorphs.

They're basically horned winged Xenomorphs without faces.

Aside from those details, they have the black shiny rubbery whale skin, the whip tails, everything.

My head-canon is the Engineers from "Prometheus" got ahold of a Night-Gaunt, and diddled around with its DNA.

Anyway, Alien crosses with Predator, and then you've got all of 'em.

So, yeah, while I'm not getting new shit with those characters (Alien & Predator excepted), the stuff I'm reading is playing in the same multiverse.

So it's all good.