Infocult: Uncanny Informatics

"The Unnamable Unimaginable Thing In My Basement"

How does a petty bureaucrat deal with "The Unnamable Unimaginable Thing In My Basement"?  Lovecraftian horror meets British estate housing in South Burnistoun:

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Human skull for Hollywood

A human skull turned up adjacent to the Hollywood sign.

Police say hikers have found a human skull in Griffith Park in Los Angeles. Lt. Ryan Schatz said the two hikers stumbled on the skull Saturday afternoon about 400 feet from the Brush Canyon trail near the Hollywood sign.

A sacrifice to the studio system?  The ultimate act of movie fandom?

A bit more detail:

Schatz said the skull appeared to be several years old. Other body parts have not been located.

Where could they be, eh?

"The Shadow Out of Time", a new video

There's a new video version of Lovecraft's classic story "The Shadow Out Of Time" (1936). Watch on YouTube, or below:

Here's a nice explanation of the fx: puppets and stop-motion.

(thanks to Dennis Moser)

The hijinks of Randolph Carter

"The Ordeal of Randolph Carter" is a very short video that starts with Lovecraft's classic short story, then makes... a different call.

Shall I say that the voice was deep; hollow; gelatinous; remote; unearthly; inhuman; disembodied? What shall I say?

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"Behind": a fine short-short Lovecraftian horror film

Where does Lovecratian terror creep in? "Behind" is a very short, very well done film that finds dread in an innocent therapy session.

Behind from Kendy on Vimeo.

(thanks to Steven Kaye)

A few films and videos for Halloween

Diverse videos and films to cross our screens on Halloween in 2015:

The very strange and way ahead of its time vision of terrifying Gothic media "The Stone Tape" (1972) is on YouTube.

 

 

A classic X-Files episode, "Humbug" (1995), written by the criminally brilliant Darin Morgan.

An episode of Batman: The Animated Series featuring everyone's favorite fearsome villain, Scarecrow: "Nothing To Fear" (1992).

A new horror film, Frankenstein's Army (2013), remixes several genres: war movie, found footage, dieselpunk, and undead monsters.

 

(X-Files screenshot from Tor.com)

Cat story or the rise of Cthulhu? "The Call of Tutu"

I'm gonna to open that door and let ol' Tutu in. Just to see what he does. Ayuh. 

"The Call of Tutu" is a story about a man, his cat, and his wife.  Or maybe a bit more than that.  A nice, quiet, 5-minute Lovecraftian video tale, from AaronV:

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Mashing up 1990s commercials with Gothic horror

This clip starts off as a well-done version of late 20th-century childrens' commercials.  It's about some kids and a fruit drink.  Stick with it, Infocult readers, as around :50 things get gory. 

Nice John Carpenter Thing ref. Enjoy some Liquid Slam!

Teletubby terror revealed

Teletubbies look so innocent in full color, don't they?  But view them in black and white and their creepy nature is revealed:

Those dead eyes, like skull holes!  The blasted landscape!  It's like a lost Bergman alien invasion movie, with a doom metal soundtrack.

Twitter comments unfold this in detail.

(thanks to Jesse Walker)

The horrible comedy of Llamas with Hats

Horror comedy is a hard trick to pull off.  For a good example, consider the very short web animated series Llamas with Hats.  

Each episode is very short (circa 1:20) and very simple.  One llama asks the other llama about what hes been up to.  The results are pithy, almost entirely dialog-driven, and increasingly horrific.

Try the first one for starters:

"Caaaaaarl...."

(thanks to Steven "Not responsible for the meat dragon" Kaye)