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Creepy image thread.

Melchiah

Melchiah

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Spectacular Dr Dawg said:
Reminds me of Uuno Turhapuro haha.

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First I laughed at the Uuno Turhapuro comparison, and then I was disgusted by the swarm of spiders.


EDIT: Here's a lovely pic for the thread.

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indigo-cyclops

indigo-cyclops

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Really awesome image I stumbled on. I believe it's an Edward Curtis photograph from the turn of the 20th century. Navajo spirit dressings, ceremonial I believe. It's being mislabeled as a "Yenaldlooshi" or Navajo Skinwalker, but that is obviously wrong. Still, really eerie image. Really love reading about the Navajo culture.

Edit: Definitely Edward Curtis - picture is called "Navajo Nayenezgani"
 
Melchiah

Melchiah

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http://io9.com/5895807/there-are-few-things-creepier-than-an-abandoned-japanese-sex-museum-nsfw (more pics and video inside)

There are few things creepier than an abandoned Japanese sex museum (NSFW)

Like any reasonable human being, you've thought to yourself, "Man, I wish there was a building where I could wander around in total darkness and decrepitude, surrounded by giant stone genitalia at every turn." Well rejoice, because there's a place in Japan where your fantasy is a reality. Welcome to the Mansion of Hidden Treasure. It's like Silent Hill, with more dildos.

At this abandoned erotic art museum — which has been closed for almost 15 years — carved stoned phalluses and vaginas too cumbersome to move sit in complete blackness, awaiting trespassers to trip over them. Explain the urban explorers at the Japanese haikyo blog Abandoned Kansai, who recently visited this spot:

Opened on October 1st 1978 the Mansion of the Hidden Treasure was in business for almost 20 years before it was closed in the second half of 1997 [...] There was no pornography found in the abandoned Japanese Sex Museum – only a couple of paintings (some of them in a special room with black light lamps), softcore photos (e.g. Playboy Centerfolds), a couple of mannequins as well as lots and lots of wooden and stone sculptures; dozens of them, to be accurate. Sculptures of penises, vaginas, combinations of both, couples in the act, buttocks, masturbating animals, priests, deities, demons and whatever you can imagine. In one room there was a forest scene with penis shaped mushrooms. Or mushroom shaped penises. Your guess is as good as mine. It was almost impossible to open your eyes without looking at a phallic symbol.

Although the below-the-belt statuary was mostly untouched, the same could not be said for the mannequins. Models of Marilyn Monroe and Emmanuelle had lost pants and limbs, and Sleeping Beauty had grown a bouquet of vibrators on her bosom. Here's a walking tour of the museum (which is like a very sexy game of Doom) and some snapshots.​
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UrbanRats

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dragonlife said:
I don't know why, but silhouettes with glowing eyes have always been something thing I like. It's the prefect blend of disturbing and mystifying.

That's why the Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne title screen is one of the best.
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Yeah, it's a simple but effective design.
Loved it in "Uncle Boonmee who can recall his past lives":
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(although it's not exactly a silhouhette, there).
 
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Übermatik

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Melchiah

Melchiah

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Lord Error said:
Always wanted to see that. I've heard it's a best adaptation of anything he wrote.
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I'd give that trophy to The Call of Cthulhu. I'm eager to see their film noir style adaptation of The Whisperer in Darkness.

The Resurrected was watchable, but I disliked how they had changed many things, and the ending was pretty goofy.

As for movies, that have been inspired by Lovecraft's stories, or that have some similar elements, I'd recommend John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness & The Thing, and the Stephen King adaptation, The Mist.
 
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LakeEarth

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Lord Error said:
Always wanted to see that. I've heard it's a best adaptation of anything he wrote.
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Kind of hard to visualize Lovecraft stories when everything is "indescribable".

Though I still think The Colour Out Of Space could work as a black and white movie but the 'colour' is actually in colour like Pleasantville.
 
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Lord Error

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LakeEarth said:
Kind of hard to visualize Lovecraft stories when everything is "indescribable".

Though I still think The Colour Out Of Space could work as a black and white movie but the 'colour' is actually in colour like Pleasantville.
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That's a pretty good idea. Things being indescribable is true for most things he wrote, but the Case of Charles Dexter Ward didn't have much of that, if I remember correctly. If I'm remembering, the main protagonist could mostly hear "bad things" in that book, and didn't have much chance of seeing them.
 
Melchiah

Melchiah

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Lord Error said:
That's a pretty good idea. Things being indescribable is true for most things he wrote, but the Case of Charles Dexter Ward didn't have much of that, if I remember correctly. If I'm remembering, the main protagonist could mostly hear "bad things" in that book, and didn't have much chance of seeing them.
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Unfortunately, the film shows a little too much in the end.
The walking skeleton is just laughable.
 
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