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a few phone snaps of the abandoned Renaissance Faire in NoVA

Movie Review: V/H/S (2012)

Title: V/H/S

Release date: October 5, 2012

Directors: Adam Wingard, David Bruckner, Ti West, Glenn McQuaid, Joe Swanberg, Radio Silence

Run TIme: 117 Minutes

Quick Hits:  A group of criminals break into a house looking for a lone VHS tape only to find hundreds and a deceased old man in a recliner in front of a group of televisions.  They proceed to watch several of the tapes, each depicting a short video of a hair raising nature, and systematically disappear.

Review:To start V/H/S is an anthology of "found footage" which over the past few years, gaining much of its popularity from the Blair Witch Project (1999), has become some what of a norm amongst the horror community.  Using this sub genre, directors garner the ability to make their stories seem more feasible in a world that has seen nearly everything .  Through the six segments, that make up the whole of the movie, we see a variety of different eerie and bizarre tales almost like that of Tales From the Crypt.  The entire thing is shot through shaky cam which at times distracts from the action in each scene and although, in my opinion, one of the segments could have been left on the cutting room floor it is a great collection.  You have the average jump scares where you can see them coming just before, but you also have several that you would have never expected that hit you right behind the eyes.  The culmination of the "main story," which is shown between each video tape, is eerie enough to keep you watching to see what happens to the five young men who are shown at the beginning of the movie along with the urge to know who sent them to the house in the first place.  Although some might say that the "found footage" sub genre is getting overplayed with the Paranormal Activity series, it is in my opinion that this movie takes it to a different level in which we aren't forced to watch the ground shoot past at high speeds or the sit there and watch as someone fast forwards through several hours of tape.

Overall Rating: 5/5

Series of photos taken of the first atomic bomb.

Abandoned theatre.

Hey! So before I begin I got this information from Vsauce my favorite science youtuber! He’s great, you’ll learn a lot from him, I know I did.

So anyway, there are 3 types of fears as examined by Stephen Kind

1) Gross-out: so gore, disease, nasty things

2) Horror: unnautural things, like a giant spider

3) Terror: when somethings creepy

What makes something creepy is ambiguity

For example masks. It masks facial expression, you don’t know how that other person is feeling. Are they a threat? Or are they nice? You just don’t know. 

Francis T Mcandrew and Sara S. Koehnke described being creeped out as an ambiguity of threats from others. (click on the pictures to enlarge)

Creepy things maybe a threat, but they are also kind of not. Like a teddy bear with a full set of human teeth. So our brains just don’t know what to do. 

So instead of carrying out a typical fear response, we just feel uneasy.

Anyway, I got the information from here as said before: X

The 40 Most Breathtaking Abandoned Places In The World

what if you get married to someone and then realize they used to follow you 

One of my favorite mysteries. 

In 1994 Gloria Ramirez was admitted to the emergency room suffering the effects of cervical cancer. Ramirez was in a state of confusion and experiencing respiratory and cardiac distress. Going into cardiac arrest, workers attempted to defibrillate her heart.

At that point several people saw an oily sheen covering Ramirez’s body, and some noticed a fruity, garlic-like odor that they thought was coming from her mouth. A registered nurse…attempted to draw blood from Ramirez’s arm, and noticed an ammonia like smell coming from the tube. She passed the syringe to Julie Gorchynski, a medical resident who noticed manila-colored particles floating in the blood.

After drawing blood, three staff members treating Ramirez lost consciousness. The emergency room was then ordered evacuated while a skeleton crew stayed behind to treat Ramirez. 45 minutes later, Ramirez was pronounced dead from kidney failure. California Department of Health and Human Services investigated the incident, interviewing all 34 staff. About 10 workers claimed to have been affected, the most serious of which experienced shortness of breath, muscle spasms, and loss of consciousness. All affected workers produced normal blood tests.

One worker spent two weeks in the intensive care unit due to breathing problems, hepatitis, avascular necrosis of the knees, all of which were developed after the incident.

There are many theories as to confirm what happened ranging from the DMSO theory (a chemical used to treat cancer parents) to something as radical as a meth lab.

You can read more here

THERE’S A MAN IN THE WOODS

Another great short film, only 3 minutes long that takes a dark turn. You might even sympathize with the man in the woods. 

WATCH IT HERE

CREEPY SHORT FILMS COMPILATION