creepy
it was creepy :P the creatures were made really well. the voices were fantastic! how did you make/where did you find the voices?
Reviews for "Abyssal"
Scythemantis responds:
I originally wanted to record nothing but my own freaky noises, but I was too eager to finish it to wait for some privacy (a little too embarrassing to be squealing and gurgling loudly in my bedroom) so I had to look for animal sounds and stuff that closely approximated what I would have done myself. Some are exactly the sound I wanted anyways, others not quite there. There's only a few that I distorted, a lot of them are ordinary whale sounds!
Agreeing with TheKnownPower
I gotta agree.
The more inhumane kind of things are more interesting.
I mean, I love this this thing. It really was frightening after the expected shock in the beginning. Kept me there, y'know.
Just one hint of improvement could be that there were too many humanoid creatures.
I personally like to illustrate the farthest possible from human.
Great job.
Scythemantis responds:
Like I say in my response below, the subtly human-like features are just my own personal sense of horror...when something is as far as possible from human, like a cockroach or a squid, It only looks cool, cute or pretty to me. I just cannot be creeped out by totally alien-looking beasts, but twisted anthropomorphism downright grosses me out. It was so bad when I was little that I was terrified of the coneheads and the crash test dummies, lol!
Here it is...
Here's what I think, I don't know where you are coming from in this, personal interest, to find the weak spot in people, or other things, but one thing you want to know when doing something like this is that when your expressing a fear or situation to people, it's through you. Your connection, your feeling's on a matter are mostly sub-conscious and the visuals are triggers to the fear. So while this may have stirred into your mind with the whole package, your only giving us a part of the feeling. Now don't get me wrong, doing that is no easy thing, I just wanted to let you know this. And another thing is that while your addressing your people through a visual media, mental reference is everything. Not that your creatures were not imaginative, but that they were so closely related to human figures and attributes, people can relate to that. People see people everyday, so it's not going to horrify someone as much, especially when your goal is to thrill with the unknown. Listen great job, grade A stuff, I just wanted to give my two cents. But I find your view interesting and, if you would be so kind to let me, I'd love to help in any future endeavors you might take on. My email is connorquinto@gmail.com
Scythemantis responds:
A very fair and thoughtful evaluation! I know the description sounds like I'm on the outside looking in at other people's little phobias, but in fact I did tailor this as the situation that would disturb me the most, very similar to some of my childhood nightmares. I know it's unusual, but the less human a creature looks, the less frightening I find it. I adore insects and mollusks more than anything, so most of pop culture's aliens and monsters just come off as innocent, interesting "animals" to me, beautiful and "cool" no matter how fearsome or dangerous they might be.
Twisted human features are all that can really disturb me in a monster, which is common enough to be a named psychological phenomenon (the uncanny valley) - it's said to be the reason so many people fear clowns (though oddly enough, they don't bother me at all). I also felt that giving the monsters so many anthropomorphic touches would raise bigger, unanswerable questions about what they are where the guy actually is :)
wtf
what the fuck!?
Very Creepy
Well Done. I think this flash achieved what it set out to do, no more, no less. Good Luck on future flashes