As I get older, I find I have no interest in playing the cutesy/silly games that are everywhere on retro consoles (obviously, they were targeted towards kids). But I also don't have the patience for survival horror games like the resident evil or silent hill series. I'm just looking for a fun spooky game that I can jump into and start playing.
So what are your favorite action-oriented games featuring skeletons and bats and horror movie monsters that aren't actually trying to scare you? Any platform, any year. I'm looking for games whose entire theme is spooky, not just a single haunted house or graveyard level.
I find it a bit amusing that you chose two horror films which I have always found to be not remotely scary as your go-to horror examples. I enjoyed them growing up, but I think they were only scary to older generations (I am an older Millennial).
Well, I don't think they are necessarily scary either, but they obviously try to be "scary horror" as opposed to Rear Window or the X-Files, which while they can be scary to some, they have a pretty clear difference of tone to them.
I wasn't sure how old of movies to pick, because while Nosferatu (1922) was certainly scary in its time, it is almost a laughably funny movie now, if one can sit through its rather slow presentation.