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Definately anything from the X-Files, umm the old show Night Stalker(remember this one). Any you could expande on alot of the Twilight Zone or Outer Limits stuff.

TV shows: Relic Hunter, Poltergeist: The Legacy (Has lantant psy's), Friday the 13th: The Series, X Files, Alien Nation, American Gothic, Angel (to some exstent), Beast Master (can be made to be scary), Buffy, Brimstone, Werewolf, Beyond Reality, The Chronicle, Fantastic Journey, Forever Knight, Freakylinks, Good vs. Evil, Kindred: The Embraced, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, Kung Fu, Kung Fu: The Legend Continues, The Lost World, The Man From Atlantis, Mortal Kombat: Conquest, Mysterious Island, Mysterious Ways, Night Visions, Night Gallery, One Step Beyond, The Outer Limits, The Planet Of The Apes, Prey, 7 Days, Psi Factor: Chronicles Of The Paranormal, Roswell, Sabrina: The Teenage Witch, Shena, The Sentinel, The Star Gate shows, Strange World, Swamp Thing, Tales From The Crypt, Tales From The Darkside, The Twilight Zone, Vampire High (For those of you who are Canadian, or like me who visited there and watched it one Spring), Weird Science, Full Moon Fright Night, Wolf Lake, and The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles.

I wanted to open a TV Network, until I found out the cost!

I'm surprised at you guys at missing the classic victim movie series.

All the Friday the 13th movies
All the Nightmare on Elm Street movies
Both Chainsaw Masicure movies
And lets not forget the Holloween series

I did an adaptation of a mixture of Warlock and Warlock Armageddon, in a game of BtS. And the 3 players were not that into it until the end of the game.

I'M NOT SURE IF ANYONE MENTIONED JAPANESE ANIMATION BUT THERE ARE A LOT OF THEM OUT THERE THAT COVERED BOTH THE VICTIM AND HERO SIDE OF THE SUPERNATURAL MENACE IN THE SAME FILM

One movie that I thought of that is a perfect reflection (IMO) of the BTS world is Big Trouble in Little China.
Here we have a truck driver, Jack Burton, who is a no nonsense kind of guy (played by Kurt Russel). He happens upon a supernatural underworld plot to bring a great evil back to life. He has to save his friend's girl, who will be sacrificed, and has to get his diesel truck back, which is his bread and butter. He ends up following a wizard type guy down into the labrinths of Little China to face beings that fully use magic, in which he doesn't really believe in at first.

If you haven't seen it, I'd highly recommend it. It's way funny and a great adventure!

Here is a list of movies for anyone really into BTS all are based on the writings of H.P. Lovecraft

http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0522454/


They are all well really bad but can make for a good game.

Frailty
but i say that for every Humans v. Monsters thing....

Misfit KotLD wrote:Not as much the film as the book, but the Relic is good BTS fodder. An ancient tribe's lore runs amok in a Chicago museum. Though it's a scientifit phenomenom the critter is still big, nasty, and very demonic looking.

One correction. While it IS the Field Museum of Chicago that stars in the film, it is posing as the Smithsonian Museum in Washington DC. The real Smithsonian would not allow them to film there for fear of damaging the exhibits.

But its not like the Field Museum doesn't have its own share of spooks, including an Egyptian Mummy whose ghost supposedly likes to go for a walk or two after hours, as well as the reports of animal growls from near the display of the two maneating African lions that inspired the film, The Ghost and the Darkness.

John Doe the TV series.

Dog Soldiers

The Ghost and the Darkness

Snow Queen

and the list goes on and on...

All three of the 'Tremors' movies are good BTS fodder.

Basic plot of the first one. huge subterranean worms start devouring livestock and people in a small town in nevada. the characters must figure out how to survive/kill critters that can track them by ground vibrations, move underground faster then a man can run, and have a fairly high intelligence and ability to learn.
there's a fair amount of humor, (the worms are eventually named 'graboids' by the local store owner, who wants to trademark the name.) but overall it's quite scary. even though all but one scene take place in broad daylight.

the next film turns into a 'monster hunter' flick as a couple of the characters from the first film are approached by the mexican government, it seems they have a problem with graboids and are willing to pay good money to the only 'experts' in killing them. all goes well until the characters discover that graboids have a very um, Interesting life cycle. (baby graboids are not worms.)

the third film follows the same formula, with another twist in the monsters life cycle forcing the characters to think on their feet. all three films have scary moments, good humor and great lines. as well as some excellent character ideas.

Scanning through the previous posts I didn't see mention of the Hellraiser series.

While some of the movies are severely lacking, the themes involved and the archaeological aspects could be excellent material for a BtS campaign or adventure.

Searching for the mysterious puzzles and collecting them while attempting to fend of the Cenobites that were summoned by empty-headed NPCs would be kinda cool and freaky.

welvrin wrote:I'M NOT SURE IF ANYONE MENTIONED JAPANESE ANIMATION BUT THERE ARE A LOT OF THEM OUT THERE THAT COVERED BOTH THE VICTIM AND HERO SIDE OF THE SUPERNATURAL MENACE IN THE SAME FILM

Yes, and for those who haven't seen the series' Peacock King: Spirit Warrior and Crying Freeman...Do so. It's worth it! Though, Ninja Scroll is great too.

GOOD GOD!

How could you people overlook THE MASTER of suspense?

Hitchcock.

Replace Human Psycho:A with Human Seeming Monster that Reveals it's True form somewhere along the plotline and you will have your players wetting themselves.


I am going to get BTS 2e when it comes out, I've never played BTS, but I think I will have a LOT of fun scaring my girlfriend to death in an X-files/Meets Hitchcock/Meets Typical Hollywood Monster flick type game.

Edit: Someone reminded me of another Source which will surely influence my games, Brian Lumley's Necroscope Series...

the Uniquely Talented Espers, the secret wars being waged below ground, the fact that while the Espers are powerful, they are still fragile humans...

oh yes...

it will be grand, and there will be much shrieking when I poke her and say "BOO!" mid game.

Bad Paul !

Here use this...I am just damageing the wall with my head. Yipe! Ah, much better.

The Prophecy 1, 2, & 3

Um....

Witch Hunter Robin....I haven't seen much of it...but it kinda seems right up the BTS vein.

heck, Read or Die does at certain points.

darkspring wrote:They even had one set in victorian london with giant rats and a chinese sorcerer .
Used a lot of the plots in my BTS games

Darkspring

Ah, "The Talons of Weng-Chiang". Classic.

Tom Baker's stint as the Doctor was the best of em all. And overall, it was a pretty dark and often creepy 10-year segment of the show, in a low-budget way. That show as a whole has plenty of fodder for scenarios or campaigns.

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Not Movies. GAMES!

The Suffering, Fatal Frame 1,2, Resident Evil, Silent Hill

In fact my next game when I get the book is inspried by Fatal frame and Silent hill. The Local is something "barrowed" from the suffering. And I'll throw zombies somewhere in there.

Movies:

The Keep . Most definitely.
The Thing (John Carpenters')
The Relic.
Hellboy.
Wicked City.
Poltergeist.
The Entity.
The Exorcist.

and while it's not supernatural, I add to my list The Ghost and The Darkness, just for the suspensefulness.

It's been mentioned before, but I would reiterate the FILM: PHANTOMS (underrated IMO as well).

For games, I'd have to go with the SILENT HILL series, especially SH4; THE ROOM.

For books, I generally go with the H.P. Lovecraft compilations... there is a great story called "RATS IN THE WALLS." I think that short story is decidedly less Cthulhu-esque, but creepy in the same way. A wonderful short read.

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FPQ

Darkness.

Cool movie too.

Blood: The Last Vampire would be a good one to base a game on.

friday the 13th the series.

Dark Shadows
Tommyknockers
Silence of the Lambs
Pit and the Pendulum (anything else Poe wrote in the horror genre)
More than a few Sherlock Holmes novels
Anita Blake series
Anything other than the harlequin books from Anne Rice, Witches series in particular
Shannara series
Demon Apostle series (Salvatore)
Time Master trilogy (Louise Cooper)

I'm sure there's more but thats what comes to mind.

law and order, vanilla, svu, and ci.

treat it like a murder mystery...

try it sometime...

it's fun, I promise.

Mr. Pain wrote:ANYTHING by Laurell Hamilton(People are dying and all anita can think of is who she is going to sleep with.)

That's just not accurate.
Anita still kills more people than she sleeps with... its just that the numbers are getting higher and higher.

While I wouldn't recommend the series for a BtS setting, it's still a great series.