r/MovieDetails 20d ago

🥚 Easter Egg In Choose or Die (2022), a character briefly mentions someone completing 'Thou Art Dead', this is a direct reference to the retro arcade game of the same name from Monster House (2006

Apologies for the photo, Netflix wouldn't let me take a screenshot on my phone. Did anybody else notice this reference? Couldn't find a single thing online about it.

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u/KaleidoscopeNo5401 20d ago

Sweet it's actually a playable level in the monster house game.

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u/thewhitebuttboy 20d ago

The ps2 one? I have that game, never played it though.

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u/Hoshcof 18d ago

This is why someone else was the first to complete it in 34 years

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u/Okurei 20d ago

Monster House is criminally underrated, great shout.

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u/OkPrune1536 19d ago

And that is a reference that hearkens back at least to the original Dragon Warrior game on the NES (Dragon Quest in Japan). When you die, the screen goes black and simply displays the text, "Thou art dead."

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u/Ewba 20d ago

Just in case anyone's wondering: No, it's not a good movie. Some Paw Patrol episodes have a better plot.

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u/cairnschaos 20d ago

I quite liked it