
‘P2’ is a bonafide gaming curiosity for its unusually extensive use of FMV, enough so that a common criticism is indeed that it’s too MUCH like a movie and too little like a game so I figure…why not make it the movie that it could have been?” Parsons explains, “ Being both a diehard adventure gamer and a rabid B-movie aficionado, I’ve long had a soft spot for ‘Phantasmagoria 2’, which rests snugly at the crossroads of both. His name is Matt “Skibz” Parsons, and he’s calling it Phantasmagoria: A Puzzle of Flesh – The Cinematic Cut.

Over 20 years after the sequel’s release, one fan has taken it upon himself to cut the game’s FMV clips straight from the original CD-Rom files and turn it into a feature length horror movie that runs just over 2-hours long. Just one year later, Sierra On-Line released the sequel, known as Phantasmagoria: A Puzzle of Flesh. Despite a whole lot of controversy and outrage (it was outright banned in Australia!), the 1995 point-and-click adventure game Phantasmagoria was a massive success, becoming one of the highest selling video games released that year.
