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As reported by The Verge, a collection of creepy, disturbing, and unusual videos is available on YouTube to help viewers get into the Halloween spirit. The selection features everything from surreal art house shorts to cosmic horror and classic viral clips.
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Created by Cecelia Condit in 1983, this short film gained a new audience decades later after being uploaded to YouTube and shared on Reddit. The 12-minute feminist musical about cannibals resembles the style of David Lynch and continues to inspire numerous YouTube videos analyzing its unsettling imagery and hidden meanings.
Homemade Gatorade
Blurring the line between horror and comedy, Homemade Gatorade offers a bizarre, uncomfortable, and uncanny viewing experience. The short road trip film combines stiff animation with heavily processed video to provoke a mix of laughter and terror at every turn.
Portrait of God
Demonstrating that less is more in cosmic horror, Portrait of God succeeds by avoiding the common trap of showing too much. Much of its short duration focuses on gazing into an empty abyss, leaving viewers to wonder what might be lurking within it.
Heck and Dining Room or There is Nothing
Heck serves as the short film precursor to the experimental horror movie Skinamarink. Delivering a similar atmosphere of tension-building quiet in a 29-minute runtime, it offers a more digestible alternative to the feature-length film. Meanwhile, David B Earle’s one-minute loopable short Dining Room or There is Nothing delivers abstract creepiness and nightmare-fuel visuals reminiscent of early YouTube viral clips, with a four-hour looped version available for parties.
The Halloween recommendations conclude with a musical contribution titled the Spirit Halloween Theme created by Nick Lutsko.
