How Resident Evil’s Spencer Mansion Taught Us To Survive Horror

In 1996, Capcom used a giant previous home to usher in an entire new era of scares.

Resident Evil’s Spencer Mansion is a life-or-death slash course in shortage that wrote a style’s rulebook in blood and ink ribbons. It’s a clockwork crucible fabricated from stairways and statues that calls for mastery to unlock, and its inside was scratched into our cerebellums from the second S.T.A.R.S. slammed shut the …