Players who have recently started wagering on online casinos would be familiar with the branded movie slots that are the rage today. These slot games are based on a specific movie and exhibit audio visual scenes from that movie in a variety of innovative ways. Even before the branded slots era there were movie themed online slots. These were not that rich in technical virtuosity but in their simple way created a movie going experience. The best of these are the slot games in the Cryptologic Movie Mayhem progressive jackpot network.

Movie Mayhem is a series of four slot games. Each slot game represents a different genre of movies. The initial movies in the early 1900s did not have any audio like the Laurel and Hardy slapstick comedies. Silent Screen represents movies from this era. The symbols used include the heroine and villain from the movies of the twenties, director with a megaphone, the clapper board, old style camera and a vintage car. Eternal love stories like Gone with the Wind are often rerun on Sunday afternoons, and Sunday Afternoon Classics is the second of the Movie Mayhem slot games. The symbols on the reels emphasize romance and are girl with a parasol, soldier on horseback, a mansion, lovers’ twin lockets, lovers in an embrace and rose. Fantasy Realm takes players into a magical world like that of the popular The Lord of the Rings trilogy. This online slot has symbols like warrior, queen, magic light, pendant, dragon and divining rod. The final Movie Mayhem slot game is Outta Space Adventure, which represents the popular science fiction genre of movies like Star Wars. The symbols used include male and female astronauts, an alien, a spaceship, a planet and a scientist. All the Movie Mayhem slot games use differently crafted high value card symbols that are appropriate to the theme and also exhibit animations in the winning combinations.

All four Cryptologic Movie Mayhem slot games are networked to the same progressive jackpot network. It is a four tier network with independent progressive jackpots that reset at $50, $500, $5,000 and $10,000. The progressive jackpots are hit through an identical bonus game on the second screen. This bonus game is triggered randomly and can appear after any spin without having to get any designated combination of symbols on a payline. However, larger total bets will increase the probability of the bonus round being triggered. The second screen displays popcorn packets next to a popcorn machine in a typical setting found in movie theatres. Players have to select from the popcorn packets to win movie tickets. When a packet of popcorn is clicked it opens and popcorn spills out. The click may or may not award golden tickets. When the packet contains the tickets, the screen lights up with a golden aura and the background audio creates a movie going experience with music and the chattering of voices. The number of tickets in the popcorn packet decided which jackpot is won. Four tickets award the largest of the four jackpots.

As such the Movie Mayhem progressive jackpot slot games are popular all the year round despite the emergence of the branded movie slots. However they draw more traffic in the run up to the Oscar Awards. These games can be played at all Cryptologic online casinos, like InterCasino.