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'''<big>UNTAGGED PLOT SPOILERS FOLLOW. Be warned.</big>'''
* '''''Splatterhouse''''' ~ During a nasty storm, "parapsychology" students Rick Taylor and Jennifer Wills take refuge in West Mansion, known to locals as "the Splatterhouse" due to rumors of insane experiments carried out by the mansion's owner, renowned -- and missing -- researcher [[Re-Animator|Dr. West]]. Once inside, Jennifer is kidnapped by a group of demons, while Rick is attacked and left for dead. When Rick awakens in the mansion dungeon, he is wearing the [[
* '''''Splatterhouse 2''''' ~ Three months later, nightmares of the Splatterhouse -- and Jennifer -- still haunt Rick. It's during one of these nightmares that Rick hears the Terror Mask's voice again; it tells him Jennifer's soul lives on, and if Rick can save her soul, he can bring her back to life. Rick reluctantly returns to West Mansion and puts the (reformed) Terror Mask on again, then travels through the ruins of West Mansion to discover a way to a secluded mansion belonging to West's research partner, Dr. Mueller. Mueller's mansion contains a portal into Hell itself, which is where Jennifer's soul is being held by a demonic force known as The Evil One. Rick enters this portal, fights back '''Hell itself''' to save Jennifer's soul, then leaves Hell with Jennifer in his arms and The Evil One chasing him. Rick manages to outrun The Evil One, fight off other pursuing abominations, and lay the Terror Mask to rest once more.
* '''''Splatterhouse 3''''' ~ Five years later, Rick is a successful Wall Street tycoon and lives in a mansion in Connecticut with Jennifer and their son David. David has latent psychic abilities, however, and The Evil One plans to use them to unlock the power of the Dark Stone, an artifact which will open a portal between Hell and Earth large enough for an army of demons to come through and overrun Earth. The Terror Mask senses The Evil One's power as it overtakes Rick's mansion, and with both David and Jennifer in peril, it convinces Rick to fight The Evil One's hordes once more. Jennifer and David's fates are determined by how fast a player finishes levels, although the game ends the same way regardless of their fates: Rick encounters (and destroys) The Evil One, only to discover that this was all a ruse by the Terror Mask, which usurps The Evil One's position and attempts to use the Dark Stone. Rick eventually defeats the Terror Mask once and for all in the game's final battle.
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** Perhaps the funniest [[Shout-Out]] are the disembodied hands giving Rick the finger, straight out of ''Evil Dead 2''.
** One of the heads circling the "inverted cross" boss from the first game is the head of [[The Toxic Avenger]].
** The horror movie references are visibly obvious but the oddly detailed plot came from [[H.P. Lovecraft|Lovecraft]] before it became trendy, mixed with bits of [[
** During the final phase of the last boss fight in the second game, the boss takes on the form of a batlike creature and music suspiciously similar to "Bloody Tears" from ''[[Castlevania]]'' plays.
** In a reversal, the title character's look from Jason X may be a [http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/1740/xvs3.jpg reference to or borrowing back] from Splatterhouse 3.
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