Duskmourn: House of Horror/Trivia
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Mark Rosewater gave his traditional teaser with the following hints.
First up, here are some things you can expect:
Here are snippets of rules text, you’ll see:
Here are some creature type lines from the set:
Finally, here are some names in the set:
Cultural references
Duskmourn: House of Horror references many horror tropes and classic horror movies. The following is a list of cards within the set that reference specific works within the genre.
| Card(s) | Reference | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Came Back Wrong | The Evil Dead (1981) Pet Sematary (1989) |
Dead people returning as possessed empty husks are a common Horror trope. In the Evil Dead series they are called Deadites. |
| Chainsaw | The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) | A movie about group of friends who fall victim to a family of cannibals while on their way to visit an old homestead. |
| Cursed Recording | Ringu (1998) | A movie about a cursed videotape that dooms whoever watches it to die in seven days. The seven time counter reference the number of days after whoever watches the tape dies. |
| Doomsday Excruciator | They Live (1988) | A film that fllows a drifter who discovers through special sunglasses that the ruling class are aliens concealing their appearance and manipulating people to consume, breed, and conform to the status quo via subliminal messages in mass media. The art of the card mirrors the film poster. |
| Ghost Vacuum | Ghostbusters (1984) | A movie about three eccentric parapsychologists who start a ghost-catching business in New York City. They catch ghosts with Ghosts Traps. |
| Haunted Screen | Poltergeist (1982) | A film in which a young child inexplicably converses with the family's television set while it displays post-broadcast static, inducing a Poltergeist invasion. |
| Let's Play a Game | Saw (2004) | "I want to play a game" is one of Jigsaw's most iconic quotes. The creature on the screen also looks like him. |
| Threats Around Every Corner | Thirteen Ghosts (2001) | This film features the use of spectral glasses that allow the wearer to see the supernatural realm to avoid the ghosts. |
| Unsettling Twins | The Shining (1980) | A movie featuring a writer his family, who stay at a remote Hotel in the winter. He starts having frightening visions, including of the murdered Grady twins. |
Miscellaneous
- Doomsday Excruciator is a also callback to Doomsday
- Tyvar Kell fills the role of Lovable Jock, an archetype in many Horror movies.