Doom Books and Movies

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#9681

Anyone read any of the novelizations or books about Doom, like “Masters of Doom” or “DOOM Guy: Life in First Person”? MoD was a fun listen on a roadtrip. “DOOM Guy” was a bit navel gazing, though some stretches of Romero’s life were interesting to hear about. I’ve only just started the novelizations.

How about the Doom movies? Despite the camp I enjoyed the 2005 film. Annihilation (2019) was hard to watch, but some of the ending shots were decent for a direct-to-video movie.

[TigerQuoll]

#9683

My favourite DOOM film is not even a doom film – it’s Event Horizon.
An industrial sci-fi setting in which an attempt to perform wormhole travel ends up creating a gate to hell? Sounds like a DOOM film to me!

My problem with the 2005 film is that it was more based on Doom 3, and even then took unnecessary liberties. Come on, the whole point of doom is the demons and gate to hell! We’ve already had this rehashed zombie plot a million times.

[kdrnic]

#9692

Since @TigerQuoll has mentioned a non-Doom-but-Doomy film; here is another: Virus (1999). “it tells the story of a ship beset by a malevolent extraterrestrial entity that seeks to turn humanity into cyborg slaves.” It is highly underrated in my opinion, the effects look specially great.
It has:
* Very cyberdemon-looking cyborgs
* Many spiderdemon-looking robots
* Lots of light and dark contrast
* Computer rooms
* Heroes armed with shotguns

Also, it is an adaptation of a comic book, although I haven’t read it.

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[dr_st]

#9700

I’ve read Masters of Doom, and I plan to read Romero’s autobiography soon.

And I’ve watched Event Horizon and the 2005 Doom movie. Maybe I should watch ‘Virus’ too.