I love artistic/inventive games, but I'm not "above" FPS (probably 70% of my gaming hours are spent in either CS:S/ZP:S or Halo). I don't usually go for RPGs (Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, Persona 3, and Persona 4 are the only RPGs I've truly enjoyed).

Night of the Living Dead (1968), Dawn of the Dead (1978), Day of the Dead, Land of the Dead, 28 Days Later, Saw, The Call of Cthulhu (2005), Let the Right One In, Repo: The Genetic Opera, Ichi the Killer, Old Boy, There Will Be Blood, May, American Psycho, The Dark Knight, Coraline, Requiem for a Dream, Ghost in the Shell, Akira, Pale Cocoon, Jin Roh, Voices of a Distant Star, My Neighbor Totoro, 5 Centimeters per Second, Grave of the Fireflies

H.P. Lovecraft: Cthulhu Mythos
Edgar Allan Poe: The Fall of the House of Usher, The Pit and the Pendulum, Murders of Rue Morgue, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado (+some poetry)
Neil Gaiman: Sandman, Good Omens, American Gods
Alan Moore: Watchmen, V for Vendetta, Swamp Thing, From Hell, Lost Girls, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, The Killing Joke
Garth Ennis: Preacher, Judge Dredd, The Punisher
Frank Miller: Sin City, 300
Anne Rice: Vampire Chronicles, The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty
Bret Ellis: American Psycho
William Gibson: Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive
Douglas Adams: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Philip Pullman: His Dark Materials

Manga: Uzumaki, Gyo, Vagabond, DeathNote, Akira, Hellsing, Planetes, MPD Psycho, Jiatsu Circle, Homunculus, Battle Royale, Battle Angel Alita, NHK ni Youkoso!

Moby, Akira Yamaoka, Aphex Twin, Apocalyptica, Assemblage 23, Atrium Carceri, Attrition, Autechre, The Birthday Massacre, Björk, Black Tape for a Blue Girl, Boards of Canada, Christian Death, Cinema Strange, Cocteau Twins, Crüxshadows, Dark Sanctuary, The Dead Birds, Desiderii Marginis, Dir en Grey, Estampie, Faun, Faith and the Muse, Jack Off Jill, Johnny Hollow, Kou Ootani, Lustmord, Lycia, Maeror Tri, Malice Mizer, Marilyn Manson, Massive Attack, Mortiis, Múm, Nine Inch Nails, Nordvargr, Nurse with Wound, OhGr, Port Blue, Raison D'Etre, Röyksopp, Sigur Rós, Skinny Puppy, Sopor Aeternus and the Ensemble of Shadows, Tenmon, Theatre of Tragedy, Troum, VNV Nation, Void's Anatomy, Voltaire, Wumpscut, Yasushi Ishii

Breaking Bad, Battlestar Galactica, Firefly, The X-Files, Star Trek (Kirk + Picard), Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Eve no Jikan, Mushishi, Cowboy Bebop, Michiko to Hatchin, FLCL, Serial Experiments Lain, Haibane Renmei, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Boogiepop Phantom, Cat Soup, Texhnolyze, Mononoke, Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei, Ergo Proxy, Welcome to the NHK