The Ghoulish Plot: Raccoon City, right after the first incident with the T-Virus. Our two heroes, Claire Redfield and Leon Kennedy, are headed to Raccoon City unaware that there are bloodthirsty zombie hordes out to get them. They must get to the police station and then find their way to safety by collecting weapons, solving puzzles and most importantly, blasting zombies in the head again and again.

This is another video game but it’s a perfect one for October/Halloween. The earlier game review in this series I posted, “Resident Evil 4,” is a sequel but nowhere near as scary or effective at creeping you out as this one. That one is an action game, THIS one is very much “survival horror,” whatever the hell that means.

I was legitimately spooked out numerous times by the way the game manipulates you into thinking you’re safe and then surprising you, or just providing a nonstop sense of dread when a particular monster is relentlessly coming after you and you have literally NO way to stop it.

I played the remake version on PS4, and the controls and graphics feel and look great. And bonus: the game is lengthy enough to be worth diving into, but not a 100+ hour marathon of having to retrieve medallions from shrines or whatever in order to get the torch so you can have a magic arrow or something.

The Scariest Part of the Game: Mr. X; once you have him on your tail you’re always at high alert and very aware of how limited your ammo supply is.

Spookiness Factor: Very, very high. Started playing this with the lights off and surround sound going and eventually started keeping the lights on. There are bumps and creaks and zombies breaking through windows at the worst possible moments.

Rating: 8 out of 10 Monster Energy Drinks