Tuesday, July 01, 2008

Review: Scary Rich

Cue up the Danny Elfman music! (Maybe even go straight back to Oingo Boingo doing “Dead Man’s Party”...)

Scary Rich in fact carries its own eerie soundtrack in one hell of a game for horror flick fans. The icons here are, well, icons of classic Gothic horror to 20th century film: you get Frankenstein’s SCATTERing monster alongside walking dead zombies, the Headless Horseman known for tormenting Ichabod Crane along with EE-vil scientists whom were thought mad at the academy! But I’ll show them, I – oh, sorry. Lost control of my inner Vincent Price there. And what else should play on a high-paying spin? Why, the classic opening riff from “Phantom of the Opera.”

What’s not to like about Scary Rich? Hey, LCD’s favorite horror movie is Scream 2 and LCD still found the overall effect hypnotic and creepy – gotta love those WILD flapping bats for atmosphere.

Whatever you do, just make sure you don’t wager it all in Scary Rich: You have to leave at least two gold pieces for your eyes for Charon the ferryman to port you across the River Styx into the lead of the dead ... mwah ha ha ha ha! LCD rating: (what else?) a solid 666.