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High Octane Nightmare Fuel
Oct. 1st, 2010 07:37 pmIn honor of the first day of October and the season of Halloween here's some scary stuff that's been on my mind.
-I'd like to call your attention to Marble Hornets:a well-plotted and truly creepy story told over a Youtube channel and across a couple of websites. THE PREMISE: A student film maker acts increasingly strange until finally stopping work on his film and abruptly leaving town. A few years later a friend of his decides to watch the footage of the incomplete film to see what might have caused his odd behavior. What he finds is... well, you'd probably skip town too. To get the most out of the story be sure to follow Jay's Twitter feed as you watch the videos. Given how stupid I think Twitter is, the fact I'm telling you to look at a Twitter feed should say something. Marble Hornets joins Silent Hill, House of Leaves, and The Ring as part of the handful of things I've actually found scary. Given the similarities it shares with all of them this is unsurprising.
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chassit19 told me last night about a man accidentally driving over his young daughter reminded me of a horrifying Driver's Ed film I hadn't thought of in years. Driver's Ed films being ridiculously over the top with the scare tactics is a cliche unto itself, but this one was really messed up. I can't remember the title but it focused on the dangers of drunk driving. A man drinks too much in spite of (because of?) his wife constantly nagging him to stop and is always driving intoxicated. There is a subplot involving the couple's young son carving a jack-o-lantern for Halloween. On Halloween night the man stops at the bar, gets drunk and drives home but to the surprise of the viewer makes it home okay. As he's getting out of the truck his wife comes out and starts nagging at him about drinking and being late and how their poor son had been waiting outside to surprise him with the completed jack-o-lantern. As the man ignores her and stumbles into the house, and as the woman goes the opposite direction to find the son, the camera slowly zooms in on the truck to reveal... the pumpkin embedded in the radiator grill! Off camera we hear the woman start screaming. Cut to black.
Fucked. Up. Even by Driver's Ed standards :/
-I'd like to call your attention to Marble Hornets:a well-plotted and truly creepy story told over a Youtube channel and across a couple of websites. THE PREMISE: A student film maker acts increasingly strange until finally stopping work on his film and abruptly leaving town. A few years later a friend of his decides to watch the footage of the incomplete film to see what might have caused his odd behavior. What he finds is... well, you'd probably skip town too. To get the most out of the story be sure to follow Jay's Twitter feed as you watch the videos. Given how stupid I think Twitter is, the fact I'm telling you to look at a Twitter feed should say something. Marble Hornets joins Silent Hill, House of Leaves, and The Ring as part of the handful of things I've actually found scary. Given the similarities it shares with all of them this is unsurprising.
-A story
chassit19 told me last night about a man accidentally driving over his young daughter reminded me of a horrifying Driver's Ed film I hadn't thought of in years. Driver's Ed films being ridiculously over the top with the scare tactics is a cliche unto itself, but this one was really messed up. I can't remember the title but it focused on the dangers of drunk driving. A man drinks too much in spite of (because of?) his wife constantly nagging him to stop and is always driving intoxicated. There is a subplot involving the couple's young son carving a jack-o-lantern for Halloween. On Halloween night the man stops at the bar, gets drunk and drives home but to the surprise of the viewer makes it home okay. As he's getting out of the truck his wife comes out and starts nagging at him about drinking and being late and how their poor son had been waiting outside to surprise him with the completed jack-o-lantern. As the man ignores her and stumbles into the house, and as the woman goes the opposite direction to find the son, the camera slowly zooms in on the truck to reveal... the pumpkin embedded in the radiator grill! Off camera we hear the woman start screaming. Cut to black.Fucked. Up. Even by Driver's Ed standards :/
