Shadow Of The Comet: Spot The Famous Actors Faces
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Sometimes referred to as Call of Cthulhu: Shadow of the Comet, an adventure game for the PC released by Infogrames in 1993. Heavily influenced by by H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos, the game made many references to the works of Lovecraft. The game uses many elements from Lovecraft's The Dunwich Horror and The Shadow Over Innsmouth (the game is set in the New England town of Illsmouth). The Necronomicon is featured, as well as a character based on Lovecraft himself. The writer, supposedly "lends" his face to the character of Dr. Underwood. (Or does he?!) Although the story-line of the game doesn't follow either of Lovecraft's short-stories, the development team claimed that they inspired the game.
The graphics of the game do a fantastic job of building the creepy atmosphere. While the character sprites are unimpressive, the backgrounds are exquisite, with gorgeous pixel art that, based on real photos, and perfectly emulates the small town feel of a turn-of-the-century American town. Many of the townspeople are portrayed with full-screen portraits of their faces, many (if not all ) of whom are blatantly based on various well known actors and actresses, ranging from Vincent Price to Jack Nicholson, and many others. And there in lies the game of the game. Spotting who all the characters are based on. |
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Listed below are a series of screen dumps of characters from the game, next to them are images that either directly match, or are close to the images used to create the game character graphics. But we've not yet managed to identify all of them. So, the question is... Can you identify the missing characters? Hopefully we can find the exact matching image. And if possible, which movie or TV show the image has been taken from. The images below are ordered from the closest match, to "we don't have a clue!" Either comment on the social media link you find this on, or contact us via our Contacts page. Let's see if we can get them all. Oh, and if we're missing any of the in-game characters, also let us know. Let the game begin!
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Robert Shaw, from the movie Jaws in the painting.
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Actor: Jack Nicholson
Movie: The Shining (1980) Match: 5 out of 5 Perfect! Nailed this one. An easy one though. |
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Actor: Glen Shadix
Movie: Beetlejuice (1988) Match: 4.5 out of 5 Minor difference, but looks like him to me. |
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Actor: Willem Dafoe
Movie: To Live And Die In L.A. (1985) Match: 4.5 out of 5 Bit of a squashed and older looking version, but with the same hair-cut, looks like Dafoe to me. |
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Actor: Eli Wallach
Movie: Baby Doll (1956) Match: 4 out of 5 Some have said this could be Walter Brennan, but Think we got it with Eli. |
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Actor: Vincent Price
Movie: Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea (1967 episode of TV show) Match: 3.5 out of 5 So many images of Price, hard to find exact match. |
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Actor: Melanie Griffiths
Movie: Working Girl (1988)? Match: 3 out of 5 The image is a close match, but sure that is a pic from Working Girl in the actual game. |
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Actor: Katy Jurado
Movie: High Noon (1952) Match: 3 out of 5 Maybe not an exact match, but close enough! |
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Actor: Lillian Gish
Movie: The Whales Of August (1987) Match: 3 out of 5 Again, think we got the movie right, just not found the right image. |
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Actor: Dennis Quaid
Movie: Innerspace (1987) Match: 2.5 out of 5 Some say this could be Patrick Swayze, but looks more like a Innerspace era Quaid. |
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Actor: Boris Karloff
Movie: Curse Of The Crimson Alter (1968) Match: 2.5 out of 5 A few people have suggested this is Karloff. And one named the movie, which seems pretty close. |
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Actor: Charles Laughton
Movie: ? Match: 2 out of 5 Right actor, no idea on the movie. |
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Actor: Robert Mitchum
Movie: The Night Of The Hunter (1955)? Match: 2 out of 5 Pretty sure this is Mitchum, far from 100% on the movie. |
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Actor: Sharon Stone
Movie: Basic Instinct (1992) Match: 1.5 out of 5 Total shot in the dark! Some online have suggested Grace Kelly?! |
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Actor: John Hurt?
Movie: Midnight Express (1978)? Match: 1 out of 5 Shaggy hair, glasses? Could be! |
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Actor: Sean Connery?
Movie: ? Match: 1 out of 5 Has a look of Connery, but that's all I have! |
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Actor: An aged Clive Owen?!
Movie: ? Match: 0.5 out of 5 This is supposed to be Lovecraft, but seems to be based on someone else. Which actor? |
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Actor: It looks like Tobin Bell, but can't be!
Movie: ? Match: 0 out of 5 Despite looking like the Jigsaw killer, it can't be, as it was made 10 years after the game came out! |
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