Ever wonder what Star Wars would have been like as an existentialist French film with dialogue by Jean-Paul Sartre? No, me neither, but some clever bastard decided to show us anyways. Well played, m’sieur. Well played.
When your sex-ed teacher is named Ms. Lovecraft, you know yr in for some strange shit. Tentacle sex and mother-of-pearl streams, you know? An official selection at Sundance 2005, this short film by Craig MacNeill and Clay McLeod Chapman is the very sum of every pubescent child’s most antediluvian fears.
Frankly, I’m not really sure how I feel about this video; the music is a bit weak, and the geek references seem forced. On the other hand, it’s got Tinkerballa from The Guild in a Ghostbusters outfit, and that’s damn hot.
From the old Frank Sinatra TV show, the “King of Diving Board Comedy” Larry Griswold; seriously, they just don’t do comedy like this anymore. I mean, literally, they just don’t. Awesome.
How do you scar your young children for life? Run them through a simulated zombie attack! Actually, it’s not such a bad idea… train the little buggers to be worth their weight when the big one comes. Good call Japan! You’ve proven your international value once again.
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