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• Anti-Climax Boss: Justified — the Mask wants to take revenge on the Corrupted for an eternity of slavery, so he summons them — and instead of putting them in Dr. West's super-bodies, the Mask traps them into a relatively weak body made up of the corpses of Rick's victims, forcing them to face an humiliating (but not total) defeat.
• Complete Monster: Dr. West in the remake. He tortured many poor, unsuspecting, and innocent people to call forth the Corrupted (one on the honophones mentioned he also sewn his victims mouths shut or cut out their vocal cords). The worst part: he suceeded in using Jennifer, and the Corrupted has taken over her.
• Crowning Music of Awesome: The metal soundtrack from the 2010 remake.
• Crosses the Line Twice: The remake's Gorn is gleefully lampshaded by the Terror Mask, one quote in particular (paraphrasing):
  Terror Mask: "See, this is the type of shit that got us an M-Rating."
• Cult Classic
• Demonic Spiders: The fetuses in the sixth stage of the first game.
• 8.8: The reviews from most gaming magazines and websites.
• Ensemble Darkhorse: Biggy Man◊, the third boss of the first game; maybe because he's got CHAINSAWS FOR HANDS and because, without knowing the right tricks, he's a That One Boss.
  • He became so popular with fans that when the new Splatterhouse was announced, fans begged to have Biggy Man return — so Namco Bandai made it happen.
• Freud Was Right: One of the monsters in the 2010 version, the Abhore has a huge, bloated right arm that leaks pus but it looks like some other whitish fluid. The Terror Mask lampshades this in one of the encounters with the Abhore:
  Terror Mask: "Who's this prick?"
• Goddamned Bats: There are many candidates, but the ghosts who possess you and scramble your controls have surely killed many a player, especially in one area which is filled with pits and other hazards.
  • From the 2010 game comes the Aegis: a tentacled horror that never attacks on his own, but makes all other monsters invincible (except for Splatter moves and weapons), actively runs away from you and teleports away if you get too close, forcing you to use the shoulder tackle to pin him down. And since the thing LOVES to hang around exactly in the middle of enemy crowds...
  • The Blue Homini and the Mirror Jennifers. They can slice off your arm in one slice, kill you in two, or even decapitate you. And when you're unarmed they take forever to kill. And towards the end, they start coming in groups.
• Most Annoying Sound: The Giant Boreworm in the third game. It's horrendous laugh will echo through your head for the rest of the game.
• Narm: DAVID IS ONLY MEMORY
  • Narm Charm: The new version goes for an incredibly schlocky B-movie feel, complete with a couple of narmy Big Nos from Jen.
  • From the remake: "No Rick, FUCK YOU." 200 years, and you're telling us you can't come up with a better come back?
• Needs More Love: The 2010 remake. The game is not far from perfect, but it's also far being terrible as critics blasted out it to be. The game has a solid pacing (once you get past the initially sucky tutorials), a good load of narrative compared to originals, plus the voice-overs are top-notch (Fuzzy Lumpkins is the Terror Mask for crying out loud). You can tell Namco put their hearts into it and made the game a big love letter to long-time fans of the series.
• Nightmare Fuel: The gore won't be the only thing that will keep you up at night. Tread here if you see the horrors that goes on with the series.
  • In the third game when Jennifer slowly gets eaten alive from within by a boreworm, and if you don't save her in time, she turns into a mindless beast.
  • The most common reaction of players encountering with the Teddy Bear in Splatterhouse 3: "H-hey, what's with the big teddy bear? Let's kick its ass! [beating ensues] Ha ha, I could do this all d—Woah, WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT?!"
  • Biggy Man from the remake!◊
• Player Punch: Frequently, especially in the third game.
• So Okay Its Average: The 2010 game, when it's not bombarded with too much criticism, is generally considered this, the story received quite a lot of praise, however.
  • Is it, however, quite the love letter to the franchise, and has all three precursors of the main series as unlockables.
• That One Boss: Biggy Man of the original game. Most people won't fault you for saving both shotguns in his stage for the boss fight.