Snook - Disturbing Internet Media

Episode Date: October 3, 2025

Beneath the internet’s endless stream of memes, videos, and daily content lies something far more unsettling, a hidden archive of media that feels off, disturbing, and unforgettable. From the chilling farewell messages of Heaven’s Gate, to strange government PSAs, to eerie sounds captured in the chaos of Vietnam. Some are bizarre, others terrifyingly real, but all of them reveal just how dark and unnerving media can get. Subscribe to the Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/SnookYT Viewer discretion is advised: this video features disturbing and potentially upsetting material. If you’re fascinated by obscure internet media, don’t forget to like the video and subscribe for more deep dives. Stay aware… and stay safe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The internet has given us endless media. From YouTube videos to TikToks, there's always something new popping up on our feeds. But buried under the funny clips and viral trends are videos that feel different. Videos that aren't just weird, but deeply disturbing. I'm talking about government-made safety films that traumatized kids for life, lost cartoons with imagery that feels wrong on every level, and strange internet videos that nobody can quite explain. These aren't the kinds of things you stumble upon while scrolling on your for you page.

These are the dark corners of media that most people wish they never found. And that's the side of the internet we're exploring today, some disturbing internet media. And before we dive in, make sure to like the video, subscribe to the channel, and turn on notifications. It helps a lot. Let's begin. Apaches When you were younger, you probably remember sitting through those safety videos in school, whether it was for escaping fire or the infamous dare lectures for those from the U.S.

These lessons were forced into young children's minds in hopes of saving them from potential harm. Usually, the government agency or whoever is behind the production of these videos, tries to keep it child-friendly, obviously. But apparently, the British government, back in the 70s, didn't think this was working very well. Apache's is a British public information film, Produced for Farm Safety Awareness by the Central Office of Information for the Health and Safety Executive, a body responsible for ensuring workplace health. The total runtime is around 26 minutes, and real school children were recruited to act in it,

and directed by John McKenzie and Neville Smith as a screenwriter. Phil Mayhew was the cinematographer, also well known for his collaborations with John McKenzie, especially in the Long Good Friday. He also worked on major films like Casino Royale and Golden Eye later on in his career. So, why farm safety? It does seem like a very niche topic for a film that was to be distributed in a very wide area. In those days, it was common for young boys to work on farms, whether as a side hustle or just for their family. So farm safety was very important.

Instead of boring on lectures and teachers preaching to students who obviously weren't listening, Neville decided to try something different. The film starts out with six children, Danny, Kim, Sharon, Michael, Tom, and Robert. They are playing a game called Apaches, where they pretend to be Native American warriors, complete with war cries and weapons. The leader is Danny, who is also the film's main narrator. They roam around a working farm where each agricultural hazard, like the tractors, toxic chemicals, and slurry pits, became part.

part of the children's fantasy, the enemy camp, firewater, and barricades. So they are aware that it is dangerous, but they have a childlike carefree attitude towards them. There are adults in the background, but they are usually busy with their work and don't see the children. What follows is some final destination-like series of deaths, far too gruesome to be shown to children. There is no warning or build-up to each one, making it especially horrific. And remember, this is made for children. Very early into the film, Kim starts climbing into a tractor while the others keep playing, forgetting about her.

She gets dangerously close to the moving parts and is crushed by the moving tractor. Thankfully, they don't actually show this, but her name tag isn't there the next day at school so the audience can assume it. One of the most disturbing deaths is Tom's. He was playing around a slurry pit, which is a mixture of animal waste and organic matter

and water later used as a fertilizer for the farm, Tom stumbles and falls into the pit, and he is shown slowly sinking into the toxic sludge. The next to be shown is Sharon, who decides to drink from a random bottle, lying around thinking it's alcohol, when, in reality, it's some toxic farming chemical. They don't show her actually drinking it, but we can hear a scream in the background immediately after. Robert and Michael, Danny's cousin, who is a little daft or has some kind of learning disability, are playing together around a massive steel farm gate. In a moment of carelessness, Michael pushes the gate causing it to fall on Robert. We can then see his lifeless body in the next

scene. Meanwhile, the group's leader, Danny is narrating all of this and is part of the final death. In his enthusiasm and confidence, he tries to drive a tractor, but obviously, he doesn't know how to, and he rolls it into a ditch, calmly narrating his own death. As the film comes to a close, there is a scene where it shows children setting up a party. It is revealed that it is actually Danny's funeral, surrounded by empty chairs where the children

who tragically passed away in the horrific farm accidents were supposed to be. The sobering end credits show a list of real names of children who died in farm accidents just like the ones in the film, leading to an educational message about the importance of farm safety. This is no children's movie, which are usually playful and fantasy-like. It had an important message, and it wanted to drive home that important message into the children with its absolutely brutal clarity, making it extremely memorable.

The movie never shift focus from the children. The adults remain in the background, and it starts completely. No setup or foreshadowing at all. The public release obviously generated a lot of controversy. The immediate reaction was shock. People were not expecting the rawness of it. Some found it too grim and disturbing in a time when most safety campaigns were focused on lighthearted messages. Whatever they thought, it was clear that it left a long-lasting impression on those who watched it.

Teachers had to follow up with discussions because of how heavy it was. It was shown extensively in major TV stations across the UK and also shown in primary schools. It was actually given a PG rating despite the deaths. And just remember, this was made to show to children. Absolutely insane. And before we move on to the rest of this, I have to be honest. I had to cut a lot of clips and censor a lot of this video for YouTube's guidelines. So I'm opening it up a Patreon.

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also known as the evolutionary level above human by believers. They thought that the body was just a vessel for their soul and on death, their consciousness would be transferred to their brand new bodies. Founded by Marshall Applewhite, former soldier and son of a minister, and Bonnie Nettles, a married nurse, the two who met at a hospital believed that they had been chosen to fulfill biblical prophecies

and been given higher level minds than others. Basically, like every other cult member, forever, they were incredibly narcissistic, and they even wrote a pamphlet claiming that Jesus had been reincarnated as a Texan, which was supposed to be Applewhite. In Revelation, a book in the Bible, there is a mention of two witnesses in one of the passages, specifically, chapter 11, verse 4. They have the power to destroy their enemies, control weather, and cause plagues to, if the previous wasn't enough. They would be defeated by the beast from the abyss, but rise again to ascend to heaven after three and a half days. If you couldn't guess by now, Applewhite and Nettles

believe they were the two. As I said, very humble leaders. Their first follower was a mother who abandoned her children to join them, which should really tell you about the kind of people they attracted. She did leave after a month, though, apparently seen some sense. Eventually, the group grew and went off grid, sleeping in tents and begging on the street for money. They toured the United States in this way, recruiting members along the way until April of 1976, when they became reclusive, and started enforcing rules such as a ban of activity and drugs. For a couple decades, the cult expanded, and in the dawn of the internet, it used a website to recruit followers again in the early 1990s.

Though it may seem silly to us now, these people really did believe in their theories and their leaders, and were willing to go to any length to take their souls to another level of existence as they believed. The events take a much darker turn now. In October 1996, they rented a mansion in Santa Fe, California. The next year, on March 19th through the 20th, 1997, the group planned out a mass S-word as they believed that that was the only way to evacuate this Earth. The comet hail, bop, approaching the Earth at its closest point in the orbit, was supposedly the sign they were looking for. Apparently, a UFO was trailing in the comment which would take their souls to the next level before the closure of Heaven's Gate.

In a video titled, Doe's Final Exit, Applewhite delivers this lecture and urges other people to follow quickly. In another video, most of his members, a group of 39 people, videotaped a farewell message. This is the answer to everything. You know, these flesh vehicles, I mean, if you use the analogy of a car and, you know, people may keep their cars for a long time before they finally wear out and they clunk out and they die on them and, you know, they go and get another car. Or some people, they say, well, you know, here's a newer model. It's much nicer. And this one, you know, doesn't quite perform the way I could. And I'd like to move into this new car. You'd get rid of the old one, get a new one.

I mean, that's about all we're talking about. It's not a big deal. One woman was discussing her discussion to follow Applewhite. Maybe they're crazy for all I know, but I don't have any choice but to go for it. Because I've been on this planet for 31 years and there's nothing here for me. And they were saying to the person I was with that they felt the last final ingredient would be for the vehicles to be found dead. You know, what humans call it dead. And so I said, great.

You know if that's what it takes? That's better than being around here with absolutely nothing to do. Several others spoke about why they were excited to be leaving and actually were thankful to Applewhite for showing them the path. If people would just know that we're not forced into this in any way, it's our own choosing to do it. I'm really happy that I made this choice. I mean, I know there was the people in the world who thought that I had completely lost my marbles. They're not right. These two tapes were sent to a Michigan minister, Rick Strawcutter.

Attached to it was a message. By the time you received this, we'll be gone. Several dozen of us. We came from the level above human in distant space, and we have now exited the bodies that we were wearing for our earthly task to return to the world where whence we came, task completed. The distant space we refer to, is what your literature would call the kingdom of heaven or kingdom of God.

The S-words were planned methodically, with the cult split into three groups, with each group cleaning up the previous before quitting them by ingesting a lethal mix of drugs and alcohol and covering their heads with a plastic bag. These exit statements remain some of the most chilling videos ever recorded, not only because of the deeply disturbing beliefs they held, but the confidence and conviction with which they spoke.

Operation Wandering Soul Ghost Tape Number 10 The U.S. Army tried a lot of different things during the Vietnam War to get the Vietnamese to give up. One of the more creative or rather creepier ways was Operation Wandering Soul. This psychological warfare campaign was based on exploiting Vietnamese cultural beliefs. Traditionally, they believe that if a person dies away from

and does not get a proper funeral, their spirit becomes a wandering soul, unable to find peace and forever wander the earth in torment. This originates from a story about a young Buddhist boy named Kien Moklian, who was born in India. He was one of the closest 10 disciples of Buddha and reached enlightenment at an early age. Unfortunately, his mother was evil, so it was sentenced to eternal pain and torment from demons and ghosts. Kian tried to send food to his mother, but the demons would not let him. When he asked for help from Buddha, Buddha told him to perform a special ceremony so that his mother's sins would be pardoned.

From this legend grew the widespread belief in Vietnam that if proper burial rights were not performed, a soul could become trapped as a wandering ghost, doomed to suffer relentlessly in the afterlife. So the U.S. military tried to capitalize on this by making fake recordings intended to scare the Viet Cong soldiers into deserting their arms. Army. Conducted by the U.S. Army 6th Battalion, it was based on earlier psychological operations, but was unique in that it used local beliefs to try and instill fear into them. Then, Vietnamese soldiers were supposed to desert or surrender so that they wouldn't become like those poor souls damned to eternity in torture. Previously, they used to drop leaflets in North Vietnam to try and use this. The contents of one such leaflet are faithful to the ancestral traditions. The people

of South Vietnam are praying for the dead on the day or pardon for the dead. As we sadly turn our thoughts toward the Withering North, no sticks were burned on Vulanday and no comfort was given to the wandering souls. How many wandering souls need our prayers and your prayers on this day of pardon for the dead? Comrades demand that the Communist Party stop its war of aggression in the South so that no more innocent souls have to join the already great amount of innocent souls now wandering in this war. war-torn country of the South. Later on, they tried a new tactic. In combination with South Vietnamese actors, engineers spent weeks recording these messages. A deceased Vietong soldier pleads with his fellow men to go home and give up, saying, my friends, I've come back to let you know that I am dead.

I am dead. And don't end up like me. Go home friends before it's too late. With screams and moans edited it into the background, which is just crazy that, you know, the U.S. Army actually used this back in the war. The only surviving tape is known as Ghost Tape Number 10. This one is especially creepy, featuring Buddhist funeral music, echoing moans and a child crying in the background saying, Daddy, come home. Meanwhile, a disembodied voice repeats, my body is gone. I am dead. I am in. And that is just so creepy to me. Just reading that gives me goosebumps. Imagine you're, you know, a Vietnamese soldier and you hear this.

How terrifying would that be? Funeral dirges, which are basically mournful hymns showing grief for the dead, Buddhist chanting and gongs are all added throughout to maximize the unease for the soldiers. Helicopters would carry these recordings and played over loudspeakers or on river patrol boats or soldiers would carry them along the borders of known Vietnamese soldier camps. This would all happen at night so that they could disrupt their rest and heighten the fear, especially in the dark. Even if some soldiers realized what was going on, they couldn't shoot it down, as that would

have revealed their hidden positions. Some helicopters even had many guns on them so they could quickly shoot down any enemy fire. Several Vietnamese soldiers also remember hearing recordings of tiger roars, causing over 150 soldiers to evacuate the hill they were camping on. so you can understand how realistic it felt to them. The Siyob division regarded this operation as at least a partial success, believing that it did demoralize the enemy at least a little. However, there is no long-term data on its actual effectiveness

as there was no concrete study on desertion rates, etc. It was phased out in 1970 as the Vietnamese soldiers began to release the fake recordings and it worked less and less. Furthermore, South Vietnamese allies were allegedly told to be out of of earshot of these recordings as these affects them as well. One lieutenant, Jerry Valentine, who is a pilot, says this about the tape. The tapes are best. We've got one we call the wandering soul tape. It lasts about four minutes. It starts with Buddhist funeral music. Then this spooky wailing voice. Then a little child is crying. The child is crying for its father. Then a Vietnamese woman

comes on and tells how her husband was killed fighting for the Viet Cong. And all the time, this eerie background voice, wailing about death. It's a real beauty, guaranteed to raise ground fire anywhere. It even sends chills down my spine. It's so effective that even the government restricts use of it. They only let us use it on extreme occasions. This kind of psychological weaponization was not exclusive to the U.S. Army either. During the Angolan Civil War, the South African soldiers would drop leaflets on the Marxist guerrilla enemy, and as one soldier recalls, when I was in the Army in Southwest Africa and Angolia in the 1970s, the Air Force used to drop leaflets on the guerrillas that said, you will be killed and a hyena will eat your bones. It was culturally upsetting

to the Avambos who made up most of the S-WAPO ranks. They believe that if their bones are buried by the family, they will become honored ancestors. But to have their bones eaten by hyena meant they would go to their version. And even though that example doesn't really tie into the Vietnam one we just went deep into. It just shows that people have done this for a long time. It's super disturbing. But if you'd like to see a video kind of like warfare tactics, disturbing warfare tactics or something like that,

I think it'd be an entertaining video and worth researching into because there's a lot of crazy stuff that has been done during wartime. So let me know if you'd like to see a video like that in the future. But ghost tape number 10 is creepy as hell and it's insane how it's used in actual war. The Connet Project Since the first wars, people needed a way to communicate secretly.

Whether to discuss strategy and pass along valuable information, people have employed a variety of methods. One such way was number stations, first reported to be used in World War I. A number station is basically a shortwave radio station where spies send formatted numbers back to their home country. One of the most famous examples is Morris Code, used heavily during the World Wars.

They were most used during the Cold War era from 1960 to 1990 when the need became extremely crucial for the spies behind enemy lines. They usually follow a set pattern, a signal, like a music or a tone, then a call sign to identify the sender, then groups of five-digit numbers that could be converted to human language by the receiver listening.

Many stations would broadcast on multiple frequencies simultaneously to make sure the message reached and then attach a speech synthesizer, such as the East German Statsy machine, which could generate a spoken message from either numbers or Morris Code. Really complicated stuff, but interesting. One of the most famous cases is the Cuban 5 case, where members of a spy ring were convicted of using number stations to receive coded instructions from Cuban intelligence. In another case, a senior U.S. Defense Intelligence agency analyst was arrested and convicted of spying for Cuba too, again, receiving instructions through shortwave transmissions from Cuba. Government agencies don't exactly like to reveal

what they're doing in these number stations, but they don't deny their existence. For example, in 1998, the Daily Telegraph asked a spokesperson from the UK Department of Trade and industry what they were and what their purpose was. He responded with, these number stations are what you suppose they are, people shouldn't be mystified by them. They're not, shall we say, for public consumption. But people were listening, and they knew. Agen Fernand's, son of Nigerian-born parents, grew up in Brooklyn and moved to London when he was 15 years old. One day, he stumbled across these mysterious broadcasts where, tuning in his shortwave radio in his cluttered home office in London, so he began systematically recording these number station transmissions starting in

December of 1992. Initially, he had no idea what to do with all these recordings he was accumulating, but he was fascinated with all these secret messages and began logging the frequencies, times and messages for a period of over five years. In his own words, you just get submerged. You get immersed in it. There are so many questions and the only answers to listen more, because no answers are coming from anywhere else. In 1997, he released the Conant Project under the name of Erdial, discs, containing over 150 recordings spanning over 20 years. It contained not only as recordings, but others from private archives owned by shortwave radio enthusiasts who all contributed to this project. The name comes from a missed hearing of the Czech word Konek, which literally means end,

used frequently at the end of check number station transmissions. There was even a video game by the title Signalis, released in 2022, which made extensive. use of content project recordings to introduce an eerie field of the game. Aiken did release the project under a free music philosophy, which means that it is available for download along with a booklet containing pictures of number station equipment. The entire thing is available to download on the internet archive. Of course, nowadays, the messages are encrypted in a far more advanced way. More sophisticated data modulation techniques and different ways of transmitting the data have made it all the harder to crack.

They are still used despite the internet now becoming widely available. Apparently, some nations still like to keep it old school. And even though a lot of you watching right now might not think number stations are too disturbing. I think number stations are just unnerving because they were never meant to be heard by us, civilians, I guess. They weren't made for entertainment, they weren't news. They were just fragments of secret code meant for secret wars.

I just think it's super, super creepy, especially how they still use them and you can tune into them. I just wonder what it's for, what they talk about. I just think it's creepy how it all goes right in our noses. We never know. They're so comfortable using it that they use it on almost public radio. It's crazy, and I just wanted to leave that kind of final thought before the next one. But yeah, I think they're definitely creepy.

Let me know what your thoughts down below in the comments. On to the next one. The war game. The following transcript is from the House of Commons. It is a response to a question on why the TV film War Game was banned. Mr. William Hamilton, West Fife. To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what representations he made to the British Broadcasting Corporation

concerning the Civil Defense film called the War Game and why he exerted pressure to prevent its showing to the public. Thursday, 2nd December, 1965. Draft reply. None. The British Broadcasting Corporation has made it clear that their decision not to show the film was not the result of outside pressure of any kind. Notes for supplementaries.

1. Have you or any other ministers seen the film? No. 2. Did an officer of the HOC it? Yes, along with representatives of other departments. 3. Did the officials who saw the film express any views as to whether it should be presented?

No. 4. Did they make any comments on it? Yes. but not in order to influence in any way the decision of the BBC. 5. Why then did the BBC decide not to show it? According to their statement, because it was too horrifying. 6. Did the BBC seek assistance from the government in making it of the film?

Yes, but we were unable to give it because much of the information asked for raised security considerations. 7. The BBC statement was in the following terms. The BBC has decided that it will not broadcast at the war game, a film on the effects of nuclear war in Britain, produced by Peter Watkins. This is the BBC's own decision. It has been taken after a good deal of thought and discussion, but not as a result of outside pressure of any kind. When the television service undertook the making of a film on this subject,

it recognized the risk that the film might turn out to be unsuitable for general showing. In the event, the effect of the film has been judged by the BBC to be too horrifying for the medium of broadcasting. It will, however, be shown to invited audiences, including those people who helped to make it. The War Game is a 1966 British film written, directed, and produced by Peter Watkins for the BBC. Watkins is known for his work in docu-drama and mockumentary genres,

and this pseudo-documentary is part of his legendary set of work. As with his other films, it contains heavy, political content, specifically depicting a nuclear war and its aftermath. It premiered at the National Film Theater in London on the 13th of April, 1966. It ran for less in a month and then was shown in various film festivals abroad. It won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 1967 and won a special prize in Venice, too. Despite its obvious critical acclaim, it was not televised until 20 years later on 31st to July, 1985, the week before the 40th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing.

Until then, it was banned from being televised, not only in the UK, but in the U.S. too. The story starts off in the middle of a World War II-like setting. It begins by laying out Britain's strategy of protecting against nuclear threats, raiding bombs by the Royal Air Force's nuclear-armed V-bombers. Of course, due to the large number of these V-bombers, bomb or bases in major civilian cities, Britain is said to have the most potential nuclear weapon targets than any other country. Meanwhile, America forces are defending Vietnam against an ongoing

Chinese invasion, and on September 15th, they are given authorization to use tactical nuclear weapons. In response, the Soviet Union and East Germany threatened to invade West Berlin if they do not. The British government is alarmed by this news and declares a state of emergency across the country, handing over the day-to-day administration to a body of regional commissioners. First, they mass evacuate children, mothers and the disabled to safe areas including Kent, which is the very south of England. Homeowners are forced to accommodate these refugees or else face imprisonment. There are no government shelters, and even if they wanted to build some, there was a shortage of construction materials anyway. Rationing is established and generally

that people prepare for a nuclear attack. They have a maximum of three-minute war, warning or a meager 30-second warning if it comes from a submarine. On the 18th of September, the Soviets and East Germans invade West Berlin. NATO starts a counterattack, but it's not much of a barrier. Now in panic mode, America launches nuclear weapons and the Soviets immediately respond and launch their own. The Megaton warhead is headed straight to Kent, right where all the civilians are. Completely destroying the whole country, the effects of the nuclear fallout on the people are shown to in macabre detail. A defense warhead is. worker and a boy's eyeballs melt while another boy suffers flash blindness from watching the

explosion. Whole towns go up in flames with the British are out for revenge, as V-bombers entered the Soviet Union to do the same to them. Meanwhile, in Kent, the whole town is overwhelmed. For each doctor, there was a minimum of 350 casualties to deal with. Those in the worst condition were shot by the police to put them out of their mercy. Dead bodies are burned, and families are barred from even seeing them. Armed to police patrol the remaining food supplies which are reserved for them. Riots break out into a civil war between the police and civilians. Insurgents are brutally executed by firing squads, while the starving suffer with scurvy. The film ends with an interview of children in a refugee facility on Christmas Day. They're asked what they want to be when they grow up.

They answer with, don't want to be nothing. Or remain silent. Many of the children are sick or are terminally ill, with only a few years left to live. The media is quiet on the dangers of nuclear weaponry, instead focusing on other matters, whether it was to keep the people hopeful or in control. We don't know. What made this film unique was the style it was narrated in. It was a mix of documentary and drama,

told like a news magazine program. The events of the war are reported factually, along with interspersed interviews of passerbys. It was focused on the collective British population, who rely on the government to tell them, what to do and who don't fully understand the dangers of a nuclear war. Watkins himself said, interwoven among scenes of reality were stylized interviews with a series of establishment figures, such as the bishop and nuclear strategists, etc.

The outrageous statements by some of these people, including the bishop, in favor of nuclear weapons, even nuclear war, were actually based on genuine questions. Other interviews with a doctor, a psychiatrist, etc., were more sober. and gave details of the effects of nuclear weapons on the human body and mind. In this film I was interested in, breaking the illusion of media produced reality. My question was, where is reality? In the madness of statements by these artificially lit establishment figures quoting the official doctrine of the day,

or in the madness of the staged and fictional scenes from the rest of my film, which presented the consequences of their utterances. The movie was loved by critics who appreciated its unique status, style in the raw emotion and devastation captured by Watkins. Roger Ebert, a movie critic said this about the movie. They should string up bedsheets between the treason show, The War Game, in every public park. It should be shown on television, perhaps right after one of those half-witted war series in which none of the stars ever gets killed.

The Poughkeepsie Tapes. Similar to the War Game film we discussed previously, the Poughkeepsie Tapes is an American pseudo-documentary. portraying a serial killer's crime spree through a collection of found videotapes. It is shown through a series of interviews with police, the FBI, psychologists, and clips from the killer's recorded footage. The film premiered at the 2007 Trebekah film festival and was supposed to be released in the following year, but the producers pulled it. It appeared once briefly in 2014 through the video on demand service by DirecTV,

but was very quickly removed. Only a decade later would it actually be released properly when a remastered DVD and Bluery release was distributed in October of 2017. The plot is based on a serial killer named Edward Carver, who filmed hundreds of tapes depicting abductions. Police raid his house in Poughkeepsie, New York, which is where they discover over 800 of these tapes. One common feature across all of them is that Carver is extremely careful to not show any identifying details about himself. The first tape shows the kidnapping, R-word, and murder of an eight-year-old girl. And the next, he convinces a couple to give him a ride before knocking out the man and subduing his wife with chloroform. Then he gives the woman a C-section and places the head of her husband

inside her room before waking her up and filming the reaction. Like I said, this movie is so utterly disturbing. The next victim is a teenage girl named Cheryl Dempsey. He murders her boyfriend and mutilates him before imprisoning her in his basement and making her his he abuses her in certain ways and also psychologically abuses her and when he sees her mother on national television pleading for any information he goes to meet her she realizes that he is her daughter's captor and Carver films her shock as he laughs maniacly and then flees. With more and more national attention Carver changes his course and starts targeting while pretending to be a policeman.

The police start investigating and are led to Officer James Folly. Folly has a history of pain for problems and had no alibi at the time of the murders. Most damningly, these samples matched so he is convicted and sentenced to death. Throughout his trial, Fawley always pled innocent, never giving up and didn't even go for any plea deals. He is executed by lethal injection.

A few days later, Carver reveals the location of another body by sending his former partner a map in his mailbox. He used samples from a fertility clinic to frame an innocent man, but although folly was exonerated, no one focuses on it as this happens the day after the 9-11 attacks. In the end, the police managed to make some progress and find the house that Sherrill was held in. She is irreversibly damaged from the whole incident but defends her captor, saying that he loved her. She commits S word two weeks later. Yeah, super feel-good movie.

In the post-credit scene, a woman is shown being filmed by Carver. He says that he will let her live as long as she doesn't blink. The moment she does, the film ends. When asked why John Eric and Drew Dottle, the brothers behind the movie, actually made this movie. They said, We were trying to find a way where we could make a lower-budget movie that looked like it cost more money to make. We were thinking it would be ideal if we could do something that had video aspects and film aspects.

And you know, we were sort of brainstorming and I said, what if we did a fake documentary on a serial killer's home movies? And Drew was like, that's it. We were actually comedy people before that. And we didn't know if we could actually do this. Do a horror film or anything scary. And Drew said basically, drop everything, you should write that. I'll put the money together.

And we'll make this. Six months later, we had shot the home movie. The film focuses heavily on the found footage genre of horror films, obviously, with dim lighting, analog VHS filters, and an overall grainy camera. There is no central protagonist, just the unreachable, pure evil antagonist, the serial killer, with police laughably far behind him. Viewers are forced to watch as the horrors unfold without any justice being done to the villain, and it's just super, super graphic and disturbing.

Responses to this movie were overall mixed. Critics praised the realism and the effectiveness, saying that the filmatography and acting were the highlights, but didn't like that there was no broader message than just being very uncomfortable to watch. On the other hand, one Reddit user said, it feels like when they were writing this, they just constantly went, oh, you know what else would be super f***ed up? As a result, it's hard to take seriously because it feels like a teenager wrote it.

The acting is pretty bad, and it relies heavily on a few scenes that are meant to be a centerpiece. Having said that, those few key scenes are genuinely effective. I feel like those are what's sticking people's minds, and they forget how bad the other elements are. It's delayed release and repeated shelving contributed to its mystique and many people believe it to be a hidden horror gem. And from the research I've done on this movie and how effed up it seems to be, I certainly won't be watching it anytime soon.

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