Easter Eggs

Easter eggs are messages, videos, graphics, sound effects, or an unusual change in program behavior that sometimes occur in a software program in response to some undocumented set of commands, mouse clicks, keystrokes or other stimuli intended as a joke or to display program credits.

The development team of the Splatterhouse game hid some easter eggs in the games.

Films

Evil Dead/Army of Darkness (series)

• In Phase Four: The Meat Factory, Rick finds a shotgun in the hands of a dead man. The man has black hair, wears a tattered blue workshirt, and the man appears to be missing his right hand. This dead man is a reference to Ashley J. Williams from the Evil Dead movies.

  

• The laughing fish trophies in Phase One: Satan's Masque are reference to the laughing deer head trophy scene from Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn.
• In Splatterhouse 2, Rick comes across ram heads that vomit at him. This again is a reference to the laughing deer head trophy scene.
• In the original Splatterhouse games, one of the enemies was an Evil Hand, another reference to a scene from Evil Dead 2.
• One of the achievements/trophies is called "Army of Dead Evil" which is a combination of "Army of Darkness" and "Evil Dead".

A Nightmare on Elm Street (series)

• In Phase Six: Beast With a Human Heart, a burnt corpse wearing Freddy's glove is seen near a boiler. Nearby it is Freddy's red and green sweater.

  

• The Giant Boreworm's introduction bears a resemblance to the "Freddy Snake" scene from A Nightmare On Elm Street part 3: Dream Warrior.

Friday the 13th (series)

• One of the achievements/trophies in the 2010 game is called "Jason Schmason", an obvious reference to Jason Voorhees.
• One of the weapons in the 2010 game is a Machete Knife.
• The masks from the original Splatterhouse and Wanpaku Graffiti both seem to closely resemble the Jason's mask from the 3rd movie to the ninth movie,
• Biggyman (or Piggyman) also resembles Jason from the second Movie.
• One of the Wanpaku Graffiti stages is called "Diamond Lake", an obvious reference to Crystal Lake.

C.H.U.D.

• During Phase Three, in the zombie infested sewer area, there are several leaking barrels of glowing green toxic waste. A Geiger counter can be heard, meaning that the waste is radioactive.

Alien (series)

• In Phase Six: Beast With a Human Heart, there's a room with several pod

  

  s resembling the eggs from the movie.
• One area has several corpses stuck to the wall through organic growth, just like in the Alien series.
• The remake version of the Boreworms resemble the "Chestburster" phase of the Xenomorph aliens in the series.

• On the North American and European Splatterhouse 2 boxart, there's a monster that strongly resembles an adult Xenomorph.

Rawhead Rex

• In one of Dr. West's glass vats, a giant floating head is seen. The head resembles Rawhead Rex's.

Total Recall

• The achievement "See you at the Party!" is a reference to a line said by Arnold Schwarzenegger's character, Doug Quaid. The line is said during this scene.

Re-Animator

• Dr. Henry West's name is similar to Dr. Herbert West. Both of which are mad scientists that use science to resurrect the dead. Which should come to no surprise as both properties are directly inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft.
• The achievement/trophy "Flesh Re-Animated" is a reference to the film's title.

Shaun of the Dead

• The achievement "You Got Red on You" is based on a line said in the movie.

Splatterhouse

Splatterhouse: Wanpaku Graffiti

• In two of Jenny's pictures, she is at the "Wanpaku Graffiti" backstage and in the men's bathroom.
• One of the levels of the game "Be Garbage of Cesspool" was used as the name of an achievement.
• The same level name was used as graffiti in the haunted house area in Phase Seven: Scream Park.

Splatterhouse (1988)

• The first side-scrolling area in Splatterhouse (2010) is a zombie-infested dungeon with several floor spikes. This is a reference to the first level in Splatterhouse (1988), which

  

  was also a zombie-infested dungeon.
• In the side-scrolling area in Phase Four: The Meat Factory, the Terror Mask says "Ahh, just like old times."
• Also in Phase Four: The Meat Factory, when Rick is standing in the elevator the music sounds like the opening few seconds of the music that plays when Rick sees Jennifer again.
• In Phase Six: Beast With a Human Heart, it says that Rick was a killer in "another life, in another game."
• In Phase Seven, there's a cardboard cut-out of the Hell Chaos.

Splatterhouse 2

• The Spitter is a monster very similar to the Blood Puppet.

  

• In Phase Seven, there's a cardboard cut-out of Bighead.
• One of Jenny's pictures is at a place called "Mueller's Bar."

Splatterhouse 3

• Rick's "normal form" while wearing the Terror Mask in Splatterhouse (2010) is similar to the Splatterhouse 3 version of Mutant Rick.
• The Mutant Rick power is re-used in Splatterhouse (2010), this time called Berserker Rick.
• The Splatterhouse (2010) version of the Terror Mask is very similar to the Splatterhouse 3 version.

Music

ASG

• If Rick is standing idle long enough, he and the Terror Mask have a brief discussion on the bands that Rick listens to. ASG is mentioned.

Wolfshirt

• One of the achievements/trophies in the 2010 game, "Headlong into Monsters", is a reference to a song by Wolfshirt.

Mutant Supremacy

• One of the achievements/trophies in the 2010 game, "Morbid Dismemberment", shares the title of a song by Mutant Supremacy.
• If Rick is standing idle long enough, he and the Terror Mask have a brief discussion on the bands that Rick listens to. Mutant Supremacy is mentioned

The Accused

• If Rick is standing idle long enough, he and the Terror Mask have a brief discussion on the bands that Rick listens to. The Accused is mentioned.

Goatwhore

• If Rick is standing idle long enough, he and the Terror Mask have a brief discussion on the bands that Rick listens to. Goatwhore is mentioned. The Terror Mask stats the it likes Goatwhore, but it actually confused the band with something else.

Mastodon

• Rick wears a Mastodon T-shirt at the beginning of the game.

Literature

H. P. Lovecraft (author)

• The Necronomicon, Arkham and Miskatonic River are all from stories by H.P. Lovecraft
• During Phase Three, there is several pieces of Cthulu grafitti, and a poster for "Hollywood Cthulu: A Live Cthulu Musical".
• The achievement "Lovecraft Baby" is an obvious reference to the author.

• In Phase Six, a large creature similar to Cthulhu is seen inside a large glass tank.
• One of Dr. West's false names was "Howard Phillips West". The first two names, Howard Phillips, were also the first two names in H.P. Lovecraft/Howard Phillips Lovecraft's name.
• In the flashback before the start of Phase Three, Jennifer mentions a festival called "Shadow Over Arkham", this is could be a reference to the story "Shadows Over Innsmouth", which is written by Lovecraft.
• In the first cutscene of phase 12 during Jen's sacrifice, Dr. West does a chant with the words cthulhu and shub-niggurath creatures from H.P lovecraft's tales.

Herbert West-Reanimaor

• Dr. Henry West's name is similar to Dr. Herbert West. Both of which are mad scientists that use science to resurrect the dead.
• At the end of Phase Six, Dr. Henry West pulls out a hypodermic needle filled with a glowing green liquid. During the film series based of Herbert West-Reanimator, the Re-Animator movies, Dr. Herbert West's reagent is depicted as a glowing green liquid.
• The achievement/trophy "Flesh Re-Animated" is a reference to the film's title.
• One of Rick Taylor's former classmates (who was turned into a Forgotten) was named "Dan". In the Re-Animator movie, one of the main characters was named "Dan Cain".



Globe Shoes

• Rick and Jennifer both wear Globe brand skate shoes. Jennifer appears to be wearing a variant of Globe Haslam Saboton, and Rick is wearing a pair of Globe Superfly.
• While promoting the game, Globe sold a variant of Superfly sneakers with Splatterhouse decorations.