MetaFilter posts tagged with scary

The Sheffield Museum of Anaesthesia

Faint of Butt — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 19:45:35 -0800

The Sheffield Museum of Anaesthesia presents its collection of mysterious, terrifying antique items once used to render people unconscious.

Fish got your tongue?

zerobyproxy — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:24:02 -0800

Tongue-eating parasite found (with freak-you-out pic) off Jersey coast. Sweet dreams mefites.

A Scary Thing Happened: The Coloring Book

filthy light thief — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 09:25:03 -0800

After receiving complains from upset parents, FEMA took the PDF coloring book "A Scary Thing Happened" offline, and now the story is spinning around the internet. Created by the Freeborn County Crisis Response Team in 2003 as a tool for children to use with a responsible parent or adult to help cope with the disaster, the book has been used with children who have experienced disasters related to Hurricane Katrina, California wildfires, floods and even the Interstate 35 bridge collapse, to name a few instances. There have even been international requests from the Australian Red Cross to use the coloring book as a model to aid Australian children. Looking for more than the offending page? The Smoking Gun has made the original PDF available, and FEMA still has three other coloring books online. (More coloring book fun inside) Other coloring books of that were discussed previously: * Colin Quashie, whose now-offline civil rights coloring book was discussed previously, also made the O.J. Simpson Coloring and Activity book with forum discussions per page * Chinese military weapons coloring and activity book * Farsi alphabet book. * Coloring Book for Lawyers (discussed a second time, though the coloring book link changed) * Law & Order coloring book (discussed again) * Understanding the Legal System coloring book * Black Panther Coloring Book And for good measure: * the Gangster Rap Coloring Book

A faithful viewer I will always be, I ain't handin' you no jive.

Catblack — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 23:25:47 -0800

Years from now, when people think about the quintessential creepy old man, they'll have one face in mind. None other than Ed Muscare, aka "Uncle Ed" aka horror host Edmus Scary who was on Channel 41 in Kansas City in the 70's through the mid 80's hosting All Night Live. He was on briefly in Phoenix around 1986 hosting Friday Night Frights prior to becoming a registered sex offender. He's served his time and has an offbeat youtube channel now.

we share our dreams and our passions. we're out of sight.

freshwater_pr0n — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 18:08:58 -0800

Possibly the most surreal children's video ever made. Dance, dream and cringe along with Creating Rem Lezar.

Hearing Spooky Voices

not_on_display — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:56:18 -0800

Hearing Voices [prev, prev] has a devilishly viscera-soaked Halloween broadcast: Bloody Hell: The First Half is Bloody. The Second Half We Go to Hell. So, turn the lights out, press play, and grab your favorite token of comfort. (It won't help.) The only warning I will give you is that I can't find the volume control knob, so be prepared to adjust your own set accordingly. Happy Halloween!

... and living on a prayer

bwg — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 17:21:04 -0800

Living on the Edge Welcome to Ronda, a beautiful city in southern Spain which is split in two by el Tajo gorge. As a result, certain buildings have been perched on the edge of the gorge’s vertical walls, enormous cliffs bridged by the 200 year old Peunte Neuvo. Now, although living on the edge of that gigantic 130m crack would give me the shakes, I'd much rather live there than Bonifacio…

all the things you once tried so hard to forget…

stinkycheese — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:37:41 -0800

Kindertrauma is about the movies, books, and toys that scared you when you were a kid. It’s also about kids in scary movies, both as heroes and villains. And everything else that’s traumatic to a tyke! Be sure not to miss Traumafessions, or the section on scary toys.

Joshua Hoffine's Horror Photography

Faint of Butt — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:11:00 -0800

Horror photography by artist Joshua Hoffine. NSFW, via The Horror Blog

Mother isn't quite herself today.

miss lynnster — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 19:31:04 -0800

No rm an Ba tes and that oh, so fam ous sho wer sce ne... FULL FILM –– Psy cho (1960) The Bates Motel today (scroll to bottom for best images) Who owns Norman Bates? Ed Gein, the "real" Norman Bates Dr. Philip Skerry (the guy who wrote a 400 page book on a 2 minute movie scene) Aaaah!

Effective education, or merely cheap scare tactics?

KokuRyu — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 11:54:42 -0800

There really are no accidents [NSFW] Talking corpses who had been electrocuted, impaled by steel rods or lacerated by broken glass didn't get the message across. Now, an even more graphic series of ads is spotlighting workplace safety in Ontario and grabbing attention well beyond the province's borders. Ontario's Workplace Safety & Insurance Board (WSIB) has launched a new (and graphic) campaign to help improve workplace safety. Family Man gets blown off side of building; Forklift driver gets impaled by metal rod; A shop clerk topples off a ladder; An electrocuted corpse speaks at his own funeral Luckily for the WSIB, there's always YouTube, because the Ontario workplace safety org's site for this campaign is needlessly complicated and Flash-heavy - it's really no accident. Click on "watch-it" to view some of the videos.

The Economics of Malware

kandinski — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 00:28:44 -0800

50 million computers are after your passwords, your money, and your processor time (single PDF link). No wonder William Gibson's new novel is set in the present: the world is fully caught up with any future we could make up. The business of spamming, carding and phishing supports and runs off a peculiar distributed platform: a market-allocated collection of ad-hoc peer-to-peer content delivery networks running on hijacked browsing appliances' stolen processor cycles. [via BoingBoing comment, previously on Metafilter].

Horror Saturday

Mblue — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 14:42:38 -0800

Your teenage son loves terrible horror movies, like C.H.U.D. How do you mend his ways? Well, you start with Paranoiac, and move on to Ravenous 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8,9,10,11,12. While he's still quaking, show him Takashi Miike's brutal Ôdishon ( even YouTube won't air those scenes.) Lighten the coming dark with Shaun of the Dead.

Top 50 Horror Movies.

Four-Eyed Girl — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 16:32:58 -0800

Top 50 Horror Movies This is one blogger's opinion of the Top 50 horror movies. There are some expected (Night of the Living Dead, The Exorcist) and some unexpected (Return of the Living Dead 3, Interview with the Vampire) choices for the top horror movies.

A horror movie come to life

daninnj — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 19:06:08 -0800

For four months, the Kuykendalls, the Prices and the McKays say they’ve been harassed and threatened by mysterious cell phone stalkers who track their every move and occasionally lurk by their homes late at night, screaming and banging on walls. Police can’t seem to stop them. The late-night visitors vanish before officers arrive. The families say investigators have a hard time believing the stalkers can control cell phones without touching them and suspect an elaborate hoax. Complaints to their phone companies do no good – the families say they’ve been told what the stalkers are doing is impossible.

We Reap What We Sow

spitbull — Thu, 17 May 2007 07:17:08 -0800

Reaping What We Sow? Right now, White House lawyers are working up new rules that will govern what CIA interrogators can do to prisoners in secret. Those rules will set the standard not only for the CIA but also for what kind of treatment captured American soldiers can expect from their captors, now and in future wars. Before the president once again approves a policy of official cruelty, he should reflect on that.Charles C. Krulak was commandant of the Marine Corps from 1995 to 1999. Joseph P. Hoar was commander in chief of U.S. Central Command from 1991 to 1994. (Washington Post)
Some other opinions. (youtube) Thoughtful commentary. More.

Scary Squirrel World

owhydididoit — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 22:43:56 -0800

EXPOSED!!! TUFTY the traffic safety squirrel 'Patriots, would you trust a skwerl to teach children the fundamentals of safety at home and on the road? Of course not!' Read the execrable Tufty Fluffytail song sheet music! Weigh in on the enigma that is the Shroud of Tufty! Watch insidious squirrel propaganda!

Songophobia

w0mbat — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 09:14:45 -0800

What inoffensive songs do people find scary? A list asked for by a curious Jarvis Cocker, former frontman of the band Pulp.
My favorite entry:
"Laughing Gnome - Bowie. Scared the crap out of me as a kid. I remember getting my parents to check under the bed. My father, a bit of an evil electronics bastard put a speaker under my bed one night and played the song just as I was drifting off. He then ran in when I started screaming and pulled out a doll from under the bead and chopped its head off with a machete. God I need therapy."

My interests are: fictions, writing, sky-diving, moshing, law, psychiatry, motor-cycle racing, golfing and sex!

turducken — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:43:07 -0800

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madamjujujive — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 22:48:32 -0800

EEEK! (YouTube) [more]

Speechless and saddened.

spiderwire — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 21:57:45 -0800

500,000 Lebanese citizens are now homeless. That's out of a population of 3.8 million, according to Juan Cole. People in Southern Lebanon have received leaflets warning them to leave, but are trapped in their villages under Israeli bombings. The IDF has opened a 60-km front on the border, using tanks to probe Hezbollah. Meanwhile, a ceasefire remains... elusive. I normally take the position that both sides are excessively violent, but this is a pretty sad picture of what's going on in Lebanon.

Orwell was an optimist

i_am_a_Jedi — Wed, 17 May 2006 10:02:56 -0800

Wired article about the hardware/technology the NSA is allegedly using at AT&T's San Franscisco switching office to eavesdrop on our internet communications. The Electronic Freedom Foundation is suing AT&T over it. The administration doesn't want that to happen. Previous MeFi|Related ACLU case

Oh, dear.

mr_crash_davis — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 17:33:17 -0800

JetBlue flight 292 , with 145 people on board, is currently circling LAX, burning fuel while it prepares for an emergency landing with its nose gear twisted 90 degrees.

Share Fun Times With Someone Special

fungible — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 15:12:16 -0800

My Twinn: The one-of-a-kind doll created to look like the special child in your life.™

The sounds of science

numlok — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 10:07:38 -0800

The Sound of a Distant Rumble: Using monitoring devices originally intended to pick up the sound of nuke launches, researchers track the underwater noise generated by the December 26 (tsunami) earthquake. Eerie audio file of the slowly-building roar is included on the page. (More info here as well)