M&M's 50 Dark Movies Game Proves to be Addicting
Filed under: Horror, Movie Marketing
If you thought the fun was just inside the colored candy shells, well you were half right. With October and Halloween looming around the corner, and films like The Grudge 2 and Saw 3 in the pipeline, the M&M website now features a Flash-based game that is utterly addicting. Someone heartless and insidious sent me the link to this game last night, and now I can't stop playing. It's a trap, I tell you.The concept of the game is that you have to identify the titles of 50 dark or scary movies that are hidden in a Renaissance-style painting in order to promote the new dark chocolate M&Ms. Some of them are fairly easy, while others will make your eyes cross, and your brain hurt.
Although I haven't yet found Gigli, I'm sure it must be in there.
Who knew a simple movie candy could be so evil?










Reader Comments (Page 1 of 4)
9-23-2006 @ 5:57PM
Erik Call said...
The most annoying and misleading clue is the nun. I'm not telling. Nyah-nyah-nyah!
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9-23-2006 @ 7:45PM
Nick James said...
I found all 50... but it took me a half hour. And I had to use IMDB for a couple.
The worst one? The grim reaper. That was fuckin' stupid.
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9-24-2006 @ 1:28AM
cybele said...
I have the list of movie names. It only gets you halfway there.
It really is a pretty good game.
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9-24-2006 @ 10:17AM
RobinP said...
Silence of the lambs was pretty clever...the Shining was a long shot. The woman carrying the kids is driving me nuts as is the bug in the jar. So far it's 28 in 28 mins.
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9-24-2006 @ 12:51PM
Gemini said...
Oddly the bug in the jar is not one that I would have classified as a dark or scary movie. Was far too amusing in my option. I have about 29 of them and wound up stuck. The nun, the grim reaper and the lady with the kids all confound me.
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9-24-2006 @ 2:01PM
Dylan Hume said...
got em all
the nun is dark water beetle beetlejuice
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9-24-2006 @ 3:06PM
roadkillbuddha said...
"Who knew a simple movie candy could be so evil?"
As is usually the case, the best way to defeat this evil is through strength in numbers.
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9-24-2006 @ 5:59PM
scott said...
mountain - twin peaks
candle - house of wax
kids dancing - childs play
dude in the bed - nightmare on elm street
lady screaming under butterflies - scream
grim reaper in the circle - ???
lady holding those two kids - ???
dude that looks like a cigarette - ???
mob with 'o's on them - the omen
dude peaking in telescope - (not the looking glass or peeping tom, they dont work)
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9-24-2006 @ 6:19PM
scott said...
jack o lanturns next to stairs - ???
fish thing in bottom left corner - creature fromt eh black lagoon
butterflies over the person that's screaming - ???
guys with the map - ???
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9-24-2006 @ 7:24PM
ronturon said...
found them all, took a little over half an hour. quite fun if you ask me though some are really stupid. ha ha.
-grim reaper in the circle is dead zone
-lady holding those two kids is the mummy
-the dude that looks like a cigarette aint really a cigarette, he's a pencil so you'll get eraserhead
-jack o lanterns next to the stairs is halloween
-the butterflies is butterfly effect
-guys with the map is lost boys
hope these helped.
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9-24-2006 @ 7:33PM
Gemini said...
The dude in the window is "Rear Window."
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9-25-2006 @ 9:04PM
Steve H said...
Thanks for the help with the grim reaper and lady w/ 2 kids. I am completely stumpd on what the "stairs" are (which has the green M&M on it - I already know what her movie is).
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9-25-2006 @ 2:19PM
EatingPie said...
I'm at 49 and stuck on the dark archway on the bottom right.
-Pie
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9-25-2006 @ 2:41PM
Sha said...
The dark archway is REALLY REALLY dark ;)
I need 2 more, I can't figure out what the stairway means or what the group of monkeys/apes/baboons mean.
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9-25-2006 @ 3:07PM
G said...
Can anybody help me:
red M with coins: ?
knife:?
man wich basket on his head: ?
green M with dress: ?
the stairs: ?
thing in the left corner: ?
wolfs or dogs: ?
map on a stick: ?
the dark hole: ?
two men on the stairs: ?
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9-25-2006 @ 3:07PM
G said...
group of monkeys/apes/baboons = 12 monkeys
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9-25-2006 @ 9:56PM
Morlock said...
red M with coins= 6 cents (Sixth Sense)
knife: Blade
man wich basket on his head: Wickerman
green M with dress: ?
the stairs: ?
thing in the left corner: bottom left is the Creature from the Black Lagoon
wolfs or dogs: The Howling
map on a stick: It's a map of Texas, what dark movie is in texas? (Texas Chainsaw Massacre)
the dark hole: Pitch Black
two men on the stairs: ?
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9-25-2006 @ 4:10PM
Chris said...
how many sense
knife?
basket?
dress?
stairs?
bug beverage
what are wolves doing
texas...
van diesel starred in it
grudge
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9-25-2006 @ 10:11PM
james said...
dark archway is: Pitch Black
knife: Blade
stairs: 39 Steps
i got em all... so i can give you some more
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9-26-2006 @ 12:04AM
Terrier said...
Any help with:
the 2 guys standing back-to-back on the steps
the village that's lit up next to the birds
Thank you.
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