Forget about killer space monsters, rabid legions of homicidal humans driven mad by exotic science and the pure terror of survivor’s guilt running rampant across your psyche. Nothing creeps me out more than the old song of “cross my heart, hope to die and stick a needle in my eye” coming true.

Welcome to Critical Hit’s 31 days of horror! It’s the month of spookiness, of frights and jump scares and we’re ready to celebrate! Over the decades, pop culture has managed to create eerie atmospheres, scenes of terror that can’t be contained within a single genre and we’re looking back at the films, video games and the movie maniac moments that had us squirming in our seats.

Games with Gold will test both your agility and brain with Assassin's Creed: Syndicate and the puzzling masterpiece The Witness headlining a great months for the service.

Here’s a video of five games that we found exceptionally gory. So if you’re under 18 and don’t have an upchuck bucket with you, I’d recommend not watching the video. For reals.

Here’s a video of five games that we found exceptionally gory. So if you’re under 18 and don’t have an upchuck bucket with you, I’d recommend not watching the video. For reals.

Isaac is going to have some mental issues with the third Dead Space game.

More details emerge on the rumoured Dead Space 3 game.

If you have ever played this survival horror third-person shooter, you can relate to this video.