RSSInteractive ad squirms with giant maggots when you walk by
This video ad in Austin, TX for the anti-virus program ESET uses motion sensors to detect when people pass by. When they do, giant 3D-modeled maggots emerge from the screen and wriggle, then fall down. The ad is part of a campaign created by Monster Media, a company that specializes in large-scale LCD display advertising, and they say future versions of this campaign will have giant roaches and rats.
Unfortunately I can’t embed it, but if you click Monster Media above you’ll be taken to the right video clip on their portfolio page where you can see the promotional maggotry in action.
“Monster Media Unleases Creepy Crawler Ad for ESET” [wide-formatimagining.com]
Review: “Infected” by Scott Sigler
Infected
By Scott Sigler
Published by Three Rivers Press / Random House
Scott Sigler’s invasion horror novel “Infected” combines ideas from Parasite Rex
The lead character, Perry Dawsey, is an ex-footbal player who has anger management issues, and when he realizes that there’s something else living in his body, he fights back. With a knife, usually. Okay, think about that for a moment: he fights back against the parasites in his own body with a knife.
iPhone app review: “Ghost Capture” camera app
Check out Ghost Capture here:
Ghost Capture lets you insert ghostly images in your existing photos, or take new ones and ghost them up before saving to your camera roll. There’s a free version with 10 images, or a 99 cent version with 30 ghosts to play with.
It’s a fun idea, and although I have a few issues with it, it’s not a bad app. It does what it advertises, and if you want a quick and easy way to generate some “proof” of ghosts in your life you should give it a shot.
60-second claymation Evil Dead is as good as the real thing
I like The Evil Dead, but the problem with full length movies is you have to watch them, which requires sitting still and paying attention for a really, really long time. That’s why I think this sixty-second remake is perfect. And the claymation style looks right at home if you remember some of the effects from the original.
The movie was made for a contest for Empire magazine. If you like it, you have until March 12th to vote for it–click over to the Empire site and cast your vote.
There’s a sixty-second version of A Nightmare on Elm Street too, and although it’s got some impressive recreation of Freddy’s glove and his phone-sex gag (see image to the right), it’s nowhere near as satisfying as this one.
Evil Dead remake with clay and done in 60 seconds, made for the Empire Jameson competition 2010. http://www.missinghead.co.uk
Serial killer appeared on ‘The Dating Game’–and won!
Rodney Alcala’s now infamous winning appearance on “The Dating Game” in 1978 proves two things. First, that you shouldn’t look for romance on a television show. Second, that some serial killers really do have weirdly charismatic personalities.
When Alcala appeared on the show as Bachelor No. 1, he was introduced as “a successful photographer who got his start when his father found him in the dark room at the age of 13, fully developed. Between takes you might find him skydiving or motor-cycling.” In fact, last month he was found guilty of murdering four women and a girl between 1977 and 1979, with the first murder–of a 12-year-old girl–happening shortly after the television appearance. With all four adult women, prosecutors said Alcala raped and then strangled them with such force that he broke bones in the jaw and throat area.
In 1968–ten years before being selected for the game show–he’d been convicted or raping an 8-year-old girl. Clearly background checks were less than thorough at ABC in the late 70s.
According to CNN, Bachelor No. 2 Jed Mills was creeped out by Alcala almost immediately and said he caught himself leaning away from him when they were on the set. In the green room before taping, Mills said Alcala was “obnoxious and creepy”:
“He was quiet, but at the same time he would interrupt and impose when he felt like it… he became very unlikable and rude and imposing as though he was trying to intimidate. I wound up not only not liking this guy … not wanting to be near him … he got creepier and more negative. He was a standout creepy guy in my life.”
The contestant who chose Alcala, Cheryl Bradshaw, refused to go out with him. Crime profiler Pat Brown suggested to CNN that that may have helped trigger his violent behavior that started up again shortly after the taping: “One wonders what that did in his mind. That is something he would not take too well.”
“Convicted serial killer won on ‘Dating Game’” [CNN]
“Rodney James Alcala On ‘Dating Game’” [Huffington Post]
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