History ShoutOut / AlanWake

** At one point, a dying [[spoiler:Walter]] express how stupid of a plot twist is in a buddy cop movie when his partner turns evil in the sequel. This is almost exactly what happens in ''Max Payne 2''.

* The song played at the end of Episode 2 is "Haunted" by Music/{Poe}, itself a companion album to her brother's novel Literature/HouseOfLeaves, serving as an allusion to that book as well.

* The song played at the end of Episode 2 is "Haunted" by [[Music/Poe]], itself a companion album to her brother's novel Literature/HouseOfLeaves, serving as an allusion to that book as well.

* The song played at the end of Episode 2 is "Haunted" by Music/Poe, itself a companion album to her brother's novel Literature/HouseOfLeaves, serving as an allusion to that book as well.

* The song played at the end of Episode 2 is "Haunted" by Poe, itself a companion album to her brother's novel Literature/HouseOfLeaves, serving as an allusion to that book as well.

** The manuscript pages from the ''Sudden Stop'' at the start of the second chapter mention a femme fatale, dead loved ones, and painkillers. The voice narrating the pages was none other than the voice of Max himself, James [=McCaffrey=].

** Also JUDY is very similar to Barbara Jagger's role to Mr. Scratch/DopleCoop BigBad.
** While their personalities are almost opposite both Mr. Scratch and DopleCoop share the motivation of wanting to be free outside their realm.

** While hiding in a trailer, Alan makes a reference to [[Creator/JackNicholson Nicholson]] and ''Film/TheShining'' when a Taken begins chopping through the door with an axe.

* One of the protected local heritage sites is a ancient tree called "[[Creator/HPLovecraft The Great Old One]]." The information plaque mentions that local lore states the tree used to reach 'beyond the stars'.

** At one point, a dying [[spoiler:Walter]] express how stupid of a plot twist is in a buddy cop movie when his partner turns evil the in sequel. This is almost exactly what happens in ''Max Payne 2''.

* A snarky and depressive man in a media-related position travels and gets stuck in a remote and redneck-filled town which celebrates a macabre day named after a macabre animal, and shit hits the fan when he has to put up with time and space-raping supernatural occurences. [[Film/GroundHogDay Sounds familiar?]]

* Another much older Remedy game is also referenced: There's a poster for the original DeathRally hanging in in the same room you find the ''Night Springs'' game. It also gets namedropped in the The Signal DLC.
* [[ShowWithinAShow Night Springs]] is an obvious homage to ''Franchise/TheTwilightZone''. Also, in Alan's nightmare at the very beginning he's driving and a signpost on the road shows that "Night Springs" is up ahead. Fans of he ''Twilight Zone'' will remember the intro narrative "There's a signpost up ahead; your next stop is the Twilight Zone!"

** Sheriff Breaker's cutout in the The Signal DLC refers obliquely to the "secret society" that she had Barry contact in the game and is advertising a fake book entitled "The Only Girl in the Bookhouse." In ''Twin Peaks'', the Bookhouse Boys was a secret society devoted to protecting the town from a supernatural evil in the woods.

** Act I of Episode 5 is named ''Night Life in Bright Falls'', which is a transparent reference to ''Night Life in Twin Peaks'', a piece of soundtrack from the show [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7psOw0ilJl4]].

** With the new Twin Peaks season Thomas Zane shares almost the same role as with Phillip Jeffries.

* There's a mode where you can play back cutscenes. Naturally, they have names to help differentiate between them. One of them is named, "[[MemeticMutation It's a]] [[Franchise/StarWars Trap]]."

* The acheivement for acing the battle against the words in ''American Nightmare'' is "[[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation No Punctuation]]." Significant, because Yahtzee panned the game for the MetaFiction elements, which he felt were heavy-handed. Remedy nust be good sports...

* The achievement "They're Heeeeeeeeeeere!" is awarded for destroying [[Film/{{Poltergeist}} possessed objects]].

* Half of Barry's dialogue seems to exist simply to deliver (often hilarious) pop culture references, from ''VideoGame/{{Zork}}'' to [[Creator/AlfredHitchcock Hitchcock]] to referring to a headlamp as his flaming [[Film/LordOfTheRings eye of Mordor]]. And all his shoutouts are justified as he's a literary agent; he ''should'' know these things by profession.

* The acheivement for acing the battle against the words in ''American Nightmare'' is "[[WebVideo/ZeroPunctuation No Punctuation]]." Significant, because Yahtzee panned the game for the MetaFiction elements, which he felt were heavy-handed. Remedy nust be good sports...