Slot Games Based On Horror Movies


Streaming media like Netflix and Amazon Prime enable us to experience our fears in the safety, privacy and comfort of our homes. You can feel the chill going down your spine and can scream in fright without showing your weakness to others. This has given a boost to the horror movie genre, which is teeming with new releases.

The horror genre has spilled over to other mediums as well. Slot machines based on zombie or slasher movies draw high traffic at online casinos. The movie studios get a share of the earnings from licensing their films for branded slots. Putting horror movie themed slots aside, Hollywood is earning of dollars every year from every genre of movie there is. The focus of this article is, however, on the best slot games based on horror movies.

Halloween

The runaway success of the Halloween franchise has led to eleven movies being released by 2018. Halloween Kills and Halloween Ends will scare fans over the next two years. Meanwhile, you can return to the original Halloween (released in 1978) through a branded slot machine launched by Microgaming. At the age of six Myers murders his sister and runs away. He returns 25 years later to complete the job.
 

Wandering Reels Suspense
Horror films usually have an element of suspense as well. In the Halloween slot game Microgaming has created suspense through a new Wandering Reels feature. A group of three reels having four rows spin together and can stop in any of three positions. If the Wandering Reels come to a halt in the left-most position the payouts are likely to be higher.

The Wandering Reels can have Jumbo Blocks of the high paying character symbols. Land a full Jumbo Block when the Wandering Reels are on the left and you will set the cash registers ringing.

Highlights of the slot game
•    The slot game is set in the ill-fated cottage of the serial killer Michael Myers.
•    You will meet some of the lead characters from the movie as high paying symbols.
•    The low paying symbols are murder weapons used by Myers.
•    The iconic film poster that has become a part of the Halloween memorabilia is a wild symbol.
•    You can actually relive key moments from the horror film in the win animations.
•    You Spin the Trick or Treat Wheel to win bonus amounts or trigger a bonus feature.
•    In the Boogeyman Bonus you will pick the fallen autumn leaves to reveal cash prizes with increasing multipliers. You have to avoid revealing the slasher because he will end your game.

A Nightmare on Elm Street

A Nightmare on Elm Street is another horror movie of the slasher type that has spawned sequels. It still remains popular and is on the Most Wanted list here at UHM. The original was released in 1984 in which the disfigured Freddy stalks four teenagers. If you do not want to see the movie again you might like to try the branded slot game. It was created by Random Logic exclusively for the 888 Casino brand.

Blood on the Reels
Horror and gore go together. You will find plenty of it in the slot machine. The text is written in blood. Gore is splattered in the background of the playing card symbols. The high paying symbols are the slasher Freddy Krueger and his terrified victims. The special thematic symbols are gruesome. The chilling Freddy silhouette is the wild symbol. Other symbols include a revolting close up of Freddy and his infamous killer claw.

Highlights of the Slot Game
•    The slot game offers high volatility, which means a higher level of risk.
•    The top payout is a whopping 20,000 times the line bet.
•    The Pick Me symbol triggers a feature in which you pick one of the symbols for a bonus credit.
•    The killer claw can trigger up to 30 free spins.
•    Never Sleep Again, a documentary that chronicles the Elm Street franchise, triggers a bonus game for more payouts.

Dracula
Horror movies are as old as movie making itself. A French movie The House of the Devil released in 1896 was the first horror film. The earliest horror movie to have a corresponding slot game is Dracula. It was released by Universal Pictures in 1931. The horror slot has been created by NetEnt.

Bats Rule the Reels
As you spin the reels a cloud of bats is released. The Bat Feature may get randomly triggered in any spin. If activated, the released bats will land in a cluster of connected positions on the reels transforming them to the same symbol.

Highlights of the Slot Game
•    The sombre Count and his petite victim appear as expanded symbols.
•    When they come together in an embrace the symbol becomes a wild.
•    You will also encounter other not so congenial characters from the film.
•    A bloodied W is the regular wild symbol.
•    The win animations are not movie clips but will not fail to repulse.  


Other Slot Games Based on Horror Movies
You can play many other branded slot machines based on horror films.
•    Psycho by Alfred Hitchcock is a classic, though it may be considered tame by contemporary benchmarks. The slot game by NextGen Gaming faithfully takes you through the plot.
•    Creature from the Black Lagoon is another Universal movie developed as a branded slot game by NetEnt.

Both these slot games and more have been reviewed in an earlier article.

What the Future May Bring
Movie based horror slots will keep coming. As the slots software becomes better, audio visual content from the movies will be used effectively in the slot games. Halloween Kills and Halloween Ends are prime candidates in the future because Microgaming already holds the license for the original title. Keep checking this site for updates.