A non-collectible
card game published by
Z-Man Games in 2001 and designed by
Stephen Tassie. The title is, of course, taken from
Criswell's infamous line from the beginning of "
Plan 9 from Outer Space", and appropriately, the
game's subject matter is
science fiction and
horror B-movies.
Each
player is dealt a number of
cards, which are
people,
items,
locations,
monsters, and
plot points that can go into the making of a
bad horror movie. You can give your
movie outlandish names like "
Tomb of the Alien Space Children, Part IV" or "
Satanic Zombie Cyborgs Meet the Unholy Girlfriend" and populate your
flick with characters ranging from the
Babysitter to the
Big Dumb Jock to the
Nymphomaniac Cheerleader to
The Guy Everyone Knows Will Get Killed to
Skippy the Wonder Dog. You can set it in the
high school, the
cabin in the
woods, the
sorority house, the old
church, or the
funhouse. You can include
props like the
shotgun and the
chainsaw or the
first aid kit and the
Book of the Dead. All of these provide you with
defense points that you will need to defend your movie from the monsters that your
opponents will be playing on you--monsters like
zombies,
mad scientists,
pod people,
severed body parts,
gym teachers, and of course,
psycho killers.
Naturally, there are other
rules, but the general point is to end the
game with more characters and defense points than your opponents. But if you're not
shouting the names of the cards out loud as you play them ("You fools! Even with
Holy Relics, the
Old Priest and
the Nervous Girl don't stand a chance against the
Killer Toys! Especially now that they're both trapped in the
Back Seat of the Car!" and "You may think the
Blob Monster can't be stopped, but that
Rubber Suit isn't very frightening! And besides, the
Bookish Girl with No Boyfriend has an
Axe now, so SUCK IT DOWN, MOFO!"... you're just not utilizing the full
power of the game...
A
sequel to the game--"
Grave Robbers II: Skippy's Revenge"--was released in late-2003. Loveable
Skippy the Wonder Dog is now an
undead horror! Ye gods! The game is just like the
original--you can even
mix the two card
decks together for more horror-movie fun.