I was only a little kid when I saw RoboCop for the first time, and considering what happens to him before he became robocop, I shouldn't have watched it. Also, the robot that shot up the meeting in it was the most terrifying thing to me, to this day I'm still scared of robots.
It's fanfiction, but it's heartily recommended by the person behind Mystery Flesh Pit. Writing quality is somewhere north of many actual published books I have read.
When I was like 10 my dad was watching Aliens, the 8:30 movie for the night. I wanted to watch it, so he said 1 hour only.
Turns out that with TV editing and ads that put me right up to the face hugger tank jump scare. Then he grinned and said that’s it, bed time.
I was jumping at shadows for weeks.
I was super hype to try and watch this as a kid. When it was the late night movie and TV, I tried to doctor the radio times (UK TV guide) with a biro. First to try and change the 18 rating to something lower, and when that didn't work to add an "edited for TV" acronym. I thought the latter was a very inventive move on my part and was shocked when it didn't pass muster.
I did manage to snatch the watch of a scene off of VHS some time later. It was the bit where Bishop gets torn in two by the queen. I didn't know wtf was going on and my stomach did certainly not appreciate any of it. This was right before Sunday roast, and it's fair to say I did not eat much.
CambiataCommander ShepardThe likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered Userregular
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When I was a child, maybe 8 or so, I had a nightmare that I remember to this day.
First I have to give a little explanation of the house we lived in at the time. It was a house built in the 1920s, though with updates it looked very 1970s. All the bedrooms were upstairs, and there was a front staircase and a back staircase to get you to the second floor. The rooms were arranged this way: At the top of the front stair, there was a door immediately to your left which was one of the "boys" rooms, there was a door in front of you that was a bathroom - but if you entered it, there was a door to the left that was yet another boys room. If you stepped up on the landing and then turned right from the bathroom, that was the master bedroom where my parents slept. Then you had take another right to walk down a banistered hall that was open on the right side to see the stairs below it, and about 8 feet from my parents' room was two doors. To the left was a shared bedroom that was probably the largest bedroom in the house, and to the right was a playroom that had doors connected to several rooms around it. The play room door was usually kept open, since it was the passage to a couple of the girls' rooms, a bathroom, and the back staircase. It was a small, square room. If you enter the playroom, the door on the left leads again to the large shared girls' room, door to the right was an unusually long bathroom, in front of you was the smaller bedroom shared by two older girls (teens), and catty-corner to that room on the same wall as the bathroom was the door to the back staircase and an indoor balcony area. The main thing to understand about this area, to understand my dream, is that you could open two doors in the large bedroom (I slept there) and one door in the play room, and with those open you could walk in a circle from the playroom to the bedroom to the hall. I will also add about this house, that a lot of rooms were interconnected, sometimes in ways I wasn't aware of until I was much older. For example, the long bathroom I mentioned? That had a side door that was always kept locked - but this door led directly to the boys' room I mentioned that was at the direct left of the front staircase. Also, the large shared girls' bedroom had a closet with a door in the back of it, which was also always kept locked (and had a dresser on the opposite side of it). This door led to my parent's bedroom. The playroom that led to basically everywhere is where we kept things like our Atari and Intelevision consoles, our box of Legos, our board games, and any other toy that would best be enjoyed by a group. That room had knotty pine walls (70s influence I was referring to) and there was an extra bed in there, but I only had to sleep there when we had guests and my regular bed was taken. The large shared bedroom was rectangle in shape, and had four windows across it facing our front lawn. The furniture was a white-painted set that was the kind you'd get for a girls' room back then. Along the wall with the doors was a vanity dresser and a desk with a chair. My bed was near the door that opens to the playroom, my older sister slept in a larger bed next to the door by the hallway. Despite sleeping in the same room as my sister, I didn't feel particularly close with her? It was like she lived in her world and I lived in mine, and we knew nothing about each other, so I might as well have been sleeping in the room alone.
Ok, now you have the setting, here is the dream: I am walking the circle I mentioned earlier, going from the bedroom, to the playroom, to the hall, to the bedroom again. I'm trying to go as fast as I can, because behind me is something. I perceive the something as a vary large ball with indistinct edges, like a ball made of wadded up hair. But rather than hair, it was more like someone took a pen and scribbled over and over in a spot until they got a roughly round shape, and then that scribble became three dimensional. This thing is very tall, to the point that it almost doesn't fit through the doors. It didn't move very fast at first, but every time we completed a circle around the rooms it was a little faster each time. I knew I had to keep ahead of it, that I could not let it catch me. But I also knew that I could never stop making this circle, I couldn't go in some other direction to save myself, all I could do was keep completing the circle until eventually it caught up with me. And it absolutely would catch up with me, there was no stopping it.
The sense of dread that I felt from the dream was so intense that I still felt it after waking up, and for days after. And it's a dread I can still feel faint traces of today by remembering the dream
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edited November 2023
There are two cellphone videos attached to this post, and I highly recommend you watch both before reading the conclusion or comments. Because right up until the reveal, this is an almost pitch-perfect analog horror:
I think my favorite bit is finding "Olivia's Cloning Gel" because the camera angle means you can't tell that it's a standard plant product and not like, a secret black market product for super villians. The cheerful lettering just makes it more horrifying as a concept.
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"Simple, real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time." -Mustrum Ridcully in Terry Pratchett's Hogfather p. 142 (HarperPrism 1996)
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Having recently been thinking about buying a house in the next few years and what I would be looking for, I would have seen that room as a MASSIVE bonus. I would have dug out the entrance, installed a bulkhead door with stairs, air conditioning, thick carpet on the floor, walls and ceiling, stadium seating, projector, big silly sound system. That's an absolute dream blank canvas for a home theatre.
I was only a little kid when I saw RoboCop for the first time, and considering what happens to him before he became robocop, I shouldn't have watched it. Also, the robot that shot up the meeting in it was the most terrifying thing to me, to this day I'm still scared of robots.
Oh man same thing happened to me and it messed me up
I have a podcast now. It's about video games and anime!Find it here.
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I've found a new horror channel. Though I'm a little 50/50 on giving him a recommendation. It's a Youtuber called Meatcanyon, and some of his shit is absolutely brilliant. The main thing that make me question sharing him forth is that I feel like he leans on SA as a horror trope a little too often. He also occasionally throws out outdated terms, and his viewpoint comes across, sometimes, as slightly regressive. I think the best news I've gotten from his channel is that even he gets bored at some of the dumb parodies he's done, and he wants to expand to more interesting work (and fewer uploads) which I applaud.
Anyway, when he's good, he's really good.
His Pinocchio is one I've watched multiple times now:
Tragedy of a Reaction Streamer is also great, even if you don't know who the reaction streamer is that he's referring to (and I didn't the first 4-5 times I watched it)
Of note is that Meatcanyon/Papameat does almost all of the voices, and he's a damn good voice actor. The sound design of these shorts is also very on point.
Anyway, this is nothing as elegant as the backrooms or the Oldest View, and the guy's humor can be downright puerile (I still laugh most of the time) but I have been enjoying it and wanted to share it.
"If you divide the whole world into just enemies and friends, you'll end up destroying everything" --Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind
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there's a novel?
I hope it's erotic fiction
Down the Rabbit Hole
It's fanfiction, but it's heartily recommended by the person behind Mystery Flesh Pit. Writing quality is somewhere north of many actual published books I have read.
There are sex scenes, but not, like, porn.
Also a shitton of body horror, just in case you thought a thing called "mystery flesh pit" would be anything else
edit: forgot to include a link to the actual fic, oops
I was super hype to try and watch this as a kid. When it was the late night movie and TV, I tried to doctor the radio times (UK TV guide) with a biro. First to try and change the 18 rating to something lower, and when that didn't work to add an "edited for TV" acronym. I thought the latter was a very inventive move on my part and was shocked when it didn't pass muster.
I did manage to snatch the watch of a scene off of VHS some time later. It was the bit where Bishop gets torn in two by the queen. I didn't know wtf was going on and my stomach did certainly not appreciate any of it. This was right before Sunday roast, and it's fair to say I did not eat much.
http://steamcommunity.com/id/pablocampy
First I have to give a little explanation of the house we lived in at the time. It was a house built in the 1920s, though with updates it looked very 1970s. All the bedrooms were upstairs, and there was a front staircase and a back staircase to get you to the second floor. The rooms were arranged this way: At the top of the front stair, there was a door immediately to your left which was one of the "boys" rooms, there was a door in front of you that was a bathroom - but if you entered it, there was a door to the left that was yet another boys room. If you stepped up on the landing and then turned right from the bathroom, that was the master bedroom where my parents slept. Then you had take another right to walk down a banistered hall that was open on the right side to see the stairs below it, and about 8 feet from my parents' room was two doors. To the left was a shared bedroom that was probably the largest bedroom in the house, and to the right was a playroom that had doors connected to several rooms around it. The play room door was usually kept open, since it was the passage to a couple of the girls' rooms, a bathroom, and the back staircase. It was a small, square room. If you enter the playroom, the door on the left leads again to the large shared girls' room, door to the right was an unusually long bathroom, in front of you was the smaller bedroom shared by two older girls (teens), and catty-corner to that room on the same wall as the bathroom was the door to the back staircase and an indoor balcony area. The main thing to understand about this area, to understand my dream, is that you could open two doors in the large bedroom (I slept there) and one door in the play room, and with those open you could walk in a circle from the playroom to the bedroom to the hall. I will also add about this house, that a lot of rooms were interconnected, sometimes in ways I wasn't aware of until I was much older. For example, the long bathroom I mentioned? That had a side door that was always kept locked - but this door led directly to the boys' room I mentioned that was at the direct left of the front staircase. Also, the large shared girls' bedroom had a closet with a door in the back of it, which was also always kept locked (and had a dresser on the opposite side of it). This door led to my parent's bedroom. The playroom that led to basically everywhere is where we kept things like our Atari and Intelevision consoles, our box of Legos, our board games, and any other toy that would best be enjoyed by a group. That room had knotty pine walls (70s influence I was referring to) and there was an extra bed in there, but I only had to sleep there when we had guests and my regular bed was taken. The large shared bedroom was rectangle in shape, and had four windows across it facing our front lawn. The furniture was a white-painted set that was the kind you'd get for a girls' room back then. Along the wall with the doors was a vanity dresser and a desk with a chair. My bed was near the door that opens to the playroom, my older sister slept in a larger bed next to the door by the hallway. Despite sleeping in the same room as my sister, I didn't feel particularly close with her? It was like she lived in her world and I lived in mine, and we knew nothing about each other, so I might as well have been sleeping in the room alone.
Ok, now you have the setting, here is the dream: I am walking the circle I mentioned earlier, going from the bedroom, to the playroom, to the hall, to the bedroom again. I'm trying to go as fast as I can, because behind me is something. I perceive the something as a vary large ball with indistinct edges, like a ball made of wadded up hair. But rather than hair, it was more like someone took a pen and scribbled over and over in a spot until they got a roughly round shape, and then that scribble became three dimensional. This thing is very tall, to the point that it almost doesn't fit through the doors. It didn't move very fast at first, but every time we completed a circle around the rooms it was a little faster each time. I knew I had to keep ahead of it, that I could not let it catch me. But I also knew that I could never stop making this circle, I couldn't go in some other direction to save myself, all I could do was keep completing the circle until eventually it caught up with me. And it absolutely would catch up with me, there was no stopping it.
The sense of dread that I felt from the dream was so intense that I still felt it after waking up, and for days after. And it's a dread I can still feel faint traces of today by remembering the dream
https://www.reddit.com/r/BestofRedditorUpdates/comments/17umvmk/about_to_make_an_offer_found_this_under_the_house/
Or for convenience, video 1 & 2:
https://www.reddit.com/r/FirstTimeHomeBuyer/comments/17izal3/about_to_make_an_offer_found_this_under_the_house/
https://www.reddit.com/r/FirstTimeHomeBuyer/comments/17k5hg2/update_about_to_make_an_offer_found_this_under/
spoilers:
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Oh man same thing happened to me and it messed me up
Anyway, when he's good, he's really good.
His Pinocchio is one I've watched multiple times now:
Tragedy of a Reaction Streamer is also great, even if you don't know who the reaction streamer is that he's referring to (and I didn't the first 4-5 times I watched it)
The reaction streamer in question did, of course, react to the video, so Meatcanyon reacted to him reacting:
Some of his parodies of children's cartoons end up being the most strangely haunting. For example, Jawbreaker:
And Railroad:
Of note is that Meatcanyon/Papameat does almost all of the voices, and he's a damn good voice actor. The sound design of these shorts is also very on point.
Anyway, this is nothing as elegant as the backrooms or the Oldest View, and the guy's humor can be downright puerile (I still laugh most of the time) but I have been enjoying it and wanted to share it.