wtf is wrong with you...
holy crap, i have no idea what i just watched. That was a very disturbing video and made no sense until i read the Author's comments. But... It was very well animated.
Reviews for "Abyssal"
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How is this suitable for all ages?!?!?!?!!??! My little brother is cryin now!
Good artwork!
Scythemantis responds:
Well, there's no rating for "creepy"...just for nudity, violence, language and adult themes, which were all technically mild :/
Sorry!! :0
yuck...
...now i wont have nice sleep tonight.
Werid...
Okay, the flash did manage to get a startle moment out of me in the beginning, so it gets some points for that. Other than that one instance the rest wasn't real scary in any sense. Disturbing, but not scary.
But overall I liked this little movie. The monster were all creative, unique, and disgusting, making them all seem unsettling. Some great sounds effects bump up the creepy factor quite a bit, and I didn't quite expect the ending. To cap it all off, the animation was quite good.
I give this a 7 because it really wasn't scary, and the creatures, while sick godless freaks, lost their intial creep factor towards the end. But it does disturbing pretty good, so there's some merit in it.
Interesting theme...
But the monsters didn't seem all that scary, looked kind of weak and as the guy below said like unborn babies. Visually the monsters looked violent but physically they seemed kind of frail. And the human noses alot of the creatures had seemed to give them a sense of twisted intelligence, which doesn't really unnerve me at all.
Also try to make them look somewhat natural to the point that a creature like it may exist, the possibility of something being real brings the horror factor up several notches. Also I think extreme speed is scarier then a menacing float.
Also I loved the flash of the dead corpse in the monsters belly (I like to think all the animals i eat daily end up like that (smiling as if asleep).
Hope this helps in the next scary flash you make. I am looking forward to a lack of sleep.
Scythemantis responds:
I've kinda always been more disturbed by simply "eerie" and "unexplainable" things than by dangerous monsters really, though I should have shown some acts of predation besides just the ending :)