Description
Sexual Holocaust is an exploitation horror scenario designed for the Wretchploitation role-playing game. It should be run like a low-budget horror movie with adult themes treated in an extremely distasteful way. The scenario takes place in a fictional town, Hammettville, located in the surrounding area of a large metropolis – such as New York -, known among its inhabitants as Crime City, and it should be set from the early 1970s to mid-1980s, as those decades are more in line with the kind of horror movie being emulated. As with every other Red Room scenario, this is a sandbox-style adventure with enough information and plot seeds to last from a one-shot to a small campaign. Sexual Holocaust includes pregens and player handouts, so it can be run without much preparation.
It is difficult in the current year to address complicated subjects, but Sexual Holocaust does it with style and an unrelenting focus on fidelity to its subject. The Hellbound Heart and the Hellraiser series of films are not for the faint of heart nor is Sexual Holocaust. Yet, it does this not by a focus on grand guinol or lurid content, but by emphasizing a crime noir thriller where the threat is supernatural rather than mundane threats. When true evil rears its ugly head it is sadly not the best of us but the most wretched who will be on the front line of saving the world.