The 'Pregnant' necromorph is another design I might have passed on - a bloated corpse with dangling finger-tongues is just kind of another Saturday for me - but sometimes, it's what's on the inside that counts: It's huge, for one thing, with a ridiculous gummy overbite tearing out of a sad little baby-face and gnarly, excessive appendages you can tell are just a whole lot of corpses all melded and mashed together like play-doh. I'll start off with one more that kind of isn't much deeper than a fangly ghoul, even pretty gauche as my spouse put it, which is exactly the word I was always trying and failing to recall when I wanted to explain why a lot of mainstream monster designs kinda miss the mark for me, but the Tormentor is a pretty fun kind of gauche. So what is the black marker, really? We'll get to that after we admire some of its all-time greatest hits. The solution comes when we discover an ancient, alien monolith that apparently generates electromagnetic waves from seemingly nowhere, and a new era of prosperity is born until it turns out that the monolith, or 'black marker,' also causes dead things to get up and grow spider legs out of their eyes. Humans have achieved interstellar travel and colonized many other worlds, but apparently still struggle with renewable energy sources, somehow. Well, 'some day' has come at last, and now that I've actually dug through every last one of these fangly ghouls, I know there's a lot more to some of them than the straightforward brute here or earlier slasher, especially in terms of actual background lore and origins, which is quite a bit weirder and more fun than just another 'zombie virus.'įor the condensed version, this fun begins in the 25th century. The science-fiction survival horror Dead Space is another of the site's most-requested Halloween topics, but admittedly, I was never especially drawn in by its creature designs at first glance fangly ghouls like this are something I've seen so many times that I kinda kept getting too easily distracted before looking any deeper into the series monsters, always telling myself I'd come back and read about them in further detail some day for a good review. Favorite Dead Space Necromorphs! (Major Series Spoilers)

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