Today's creepy real-life object comes from this beauty aid video. This is deeply unsettling, and veers into outright horror with that shot of pegs (?) inside the blank, staring mask:
Let the mashups begin. Start with an iron maiden.
UPDATED: this is apparently already a mashup, with the soundtrack added to a real cosmetic aid. It's the Rejuvenique RJV10KIT Facial Mask Facial Toning System, once hawked by Linda Evans. (thanks, Glen)
(via BoingBoing)
That's the creepiest thing I've seen in a long, long time. Both the mask, and what it says about some people's need to be "beautiful". Scary stuff. I'm going to have nightmares. Thanks for that.
Posted by: D'Arcy Norman | November 19, 2008 at 14:17
...all I hear is John Carpenter's piano.
Posted by: saramin | November 19, 2008 at 15:47
The pegs remind me of Black Sunday, of course.
Posted by: Steven Kaye | November 19, 2008 at 15:56
Wow, is that creepy. How would you say it stacks up vs. intentionally injecting neurotoxins into the skin, though?
Posted by: Andrea A. Phillips | November 19, 2008 at 17:13
Just updated the original post.
We live to serve, D'Arcy.
Indeed, saramin and Steven.
Don't those two go together well, Andrea? Use the mask to keep the diseases inside.
Posted by: Bryan Alexander | November 20, 2008 at 08:14
Ooh, I like the way you think!
Posted by: Andrea A. Phillips | November 20, 2008 at 14:49