Games on Film

Harry and Rory are joined by Lisa Theresa Downey-Dent as they take the night shift, stare at the monitors, and try to survive Five Nights at Freddy's! The much-anticipated adaptation of the indie horror franchise and favourite with Twitch-watching tweens brings Freddy Fazbear and his animatronic friends to life, as they terrorise security guard Mike (Josh Hutcherson) in an abandoned pizzeria. But does it offer thrills beyond its fanbase, or should they have pulled the plug?

This podcast contains SPOILERS for Five Nights at Freddy's (2023), from 49:10.

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It's Halloween, so Harry and Rory return to the 1UP Cafe in Brighton and reload Uwe Boll's House of the Dead for this mini episode with a live audience! Inspired by SEGA's zombie arcade classic, the notorious filmmaker's first video game movie is now 20 years old, but, for all its guns and gore, is it a blast from the past? Plus, we test the audience's trivia knowledge with our Quiz of the Dead!

This podcast contains SPOILERS for House of the Dead (2003).

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Harry and Rory get an (airplane) terminal case of the T-Virus as they return to Resident Evil for the franchise's first full-length animated movie, fully in the canon of the videogames.

Does the return of zombies, Leon and Claire impress your degenerate podcast hosts, or is this a 90-minute cut scene that should have had 90 minutes of scenes cut?

This podcast contains SPOILERS for Resident Evil: Degeneration (2008), from 45:37.
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Harry and Rory recruit musician David Lightfoot of rock band The Fades for the Star League, as they are whisked away for an adventure in childhood nostalgia and intergalactic warfare in The Last Starfighter! Teenager Alex Rogan is stuck living in a trailer park in the middle on nowhere, but when he gets the high score on a Starfighter arcade machine, it turns out his time blasting digital space ships was preparing him for the real thing. Does he have what it takes to defeat Xur and take out the Ko-Dan Armada? And how does this 80's cult classic fare nearly 40 years later?

This podcast contains SPOILERS for The Last Starfighter (1984), from 52:00.

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In a special live episode, Harry and Rory revisit the original Mortal Kombat movie with an audience, hosted at 1UP Cafe in Brighton! Recorded 28 years to the day of its debut in US cinemas, we discuss its origins, select our favourite fights, and decide if the film has stood the test of time. Plus, we hear from our lovely audience and find out the winner of our Kombat Kwiz!

This podcast contains SPOILERS for Mortal Kombat (1995).

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Harry and Rory start their engines and find out if a gamer can become a racer in Gran Turismo: Based on a True Story! The PlayStation driving simulator series inspired the creation of a training programme selecting the top players worldwide to see whether they had what it takes to hit the circuit for real. Directed by Neill Blomkamp, the Gran Turismo movie brings to the big screen Jann Mardenborough's journey from playing his console in Cardiff to competing in Le Mans. But as the lines between gaming and racing, and fact and fiction, blur, does it deserve a podium finish?

This podcast contains SPOILERS for Gran Turismo (2023), from 40:32.

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Harry and Rory boot up an early 2000s B-movie inspired by (the title of) a 1950s B-movie and learn How to Make a Monster! Part of SFX legend Stan Winston's DTV horror movie series/toy line Creature Features, HTMAM is a techno-Frankenstein tale for the Y2K generation from Swimming with Sharks writer/director George Huang. A development team have just four weeks to finish creating the scariest video game of all time, Evilution. But when the game's A.I. engine takes control of a robotic mo-cap suit and goes on the rampage, there's only a matter of time until it's Game Over for the game's makers and we find out who is the real monster after all - the murderous demon flesh-bot, or the toxic corporate back-stabbers?

This podcast contains SPOILERS for How to Make a Monster (2001), from 29:42.

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To mark the release of the big-screen live-action Barbie movie, Harry and Rory venture into Barbieland themselves for Barbie: Video Game Hero! They discuss Barbie's illustrious video game career, before turning to Barbie's 35th animated adventure. Video game developer Barbie is transported to a digital world by in-game tutorial Cutie, where she must win three levels across different genres and graphic styles in order to stop an emoji virus from corrupting the games for good. Will her coding skills save the day, or is this a glitch too far for even Barbie?

This podcast contains SPOILERS for Barbie: Video Game Hero (2017), from 36:15.

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To mark the upcoming release in Japanese cinemas of the much-awaited new Hayao Miyazaki film 'How Do You Live?', Harry and Rory are joined by their brother and DeadEndia creator Hamish Steele to discuss NiNoKuni, an anime sequel to the Level-5 RPG series co-created with Studio Ghibli alumni. Hamish shares his love for the two main game titles, and we pick out our won Ghibli favourites, before we journey to the parallel world of the (non-Ghibli) movie, as teen besties Yu and Haru face a difficult choice that may seal the fate of a fantasy kingdom, the girl they both love, and their friendship.

This podcast contains SPOILERS for NiNoKuni (2019), from 48:05.

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Harry and Rory are joined by streamer and presenter Bex Trista aka Trista Bytes, as they take to the dancefloor to duel with cult indie film The FP! Set in the near future, rival gangs engage in turf war battles through the medium of Beat Beat Revelation, a competitive rhythm arcade game inspired by Dance Dance Revolution. Can JTRO avenge the death of his brother, defeat his nemesis, and get the girl? We discuss our own dancing game skills, celebrate arcade and DDR communities, and grapple with The FP's tricky trash talk and genre tropes.

This podcast contains SPOILERS for The FP (2011), from 44:20.

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