Get in the spirit with these horrors from YouTube
Get in the spirit with these horrors from YouTube
Close out the Halloween season with these creepy, weird, and unsettling videos from YouTube.
用这些来自 YouTube 的恐怖视频为万圣节画上句号吧。
Rather than recommend a single horror film or an unsettling album for our final installment of spooky season recs, I present you with a small selection of creepy, disturbing, and just plain weird videos from YouTube. There’s a little something for everyone here. Whether you’re a fan of surreal art house shorts, cosmic horror, or classic viral clips, you’re bound to find something below that will get you in the Halloween spirit.
在万圣节推荐系列的最后一期中，我没有推荐单一的恐怖电影或令人不安的专辑，而是为大家精选了一些来自 YouTube 的诡异、惊悚且极其怪诞的视频。这里的内容应有尽有。无论你是超现实艺术短片、宇宙恐怖片还是经典病毒式视频的粉丝，你一定能在下面找到让你感受到万圣节氛围的内容。
Possibly in Michigan: This 1983 short film from Cecelia Condit found its audience over 30 years later when it was uploaded to YouTube and eventually found its way to Reddit. If you’ve ever wondered what a feminist musical about cannibals directed by David Lynch would be like, wonder no more. Possibly in Michigan is only 12 minutes long, but it has inspired hours of YouTube videos dedicated to analyzing its deeply unsettling imagery and meaning.
《Possibly in Michigan》：这部由塞西莉亚·康迪特（Cecelia Condit）于 1983 年创作的短片，在上传到 YouTube 并最终出现在 Reddit 上之后，时隔 30 多年才找到了它的受众。如果你曾好奇大卫·林奇（David Lynch）执导的关于食人族的女性主义音乐剧会是什么样子，现在不用再猜了。《Possibly in Michigan》全长仅 12 分钟，但它激发了无数 YouTube 视频对其中令人不安的意象和深层含义进行长达数小时的分析。
Homemade Gatorade: The line between horror and comedy is razor thin, and Homemade Gatorade expertly threads that line. It’s bizarre, uncomfortable, and uncanny. It blends stiff animation with heavily processed video to create something quite unique. I’m never sure if I should be laughing or squirming in terror with every turn this road trip short takes.
《Homemade Gatorade》：恐怖与喜剧之间的界限极其模糊，而《Homemade Gatorade》巧妙地游走于这条线之间。它怪异、令人不适且充满诡谲感。它将僵硬的动画与经过深度处理的视频相结合，创造出一种非常独特的风格。在这部公路旅行短片的每一个转折点，我都不确定自己该笑还是该因恐惧而战栗。
Portrait of God: Big budget cosmic horror films often make the same mistake — they try to show too much. What makes Portrait of God work is it knows less is more. So much of its short runtime is spent staring into an empty abyss. Or is it empty…
《Portrait of God》：大预算的宇宙恐怖电影常犯同一个错误——试图展示得太多。《Portrait of God》的成功之处在于它懂得“少即是多”。它大部分的短促时长都花在凝视空洞的深渊上。或者说，那真的是空的吗……
Heck: Speaking of staring intently at nothing and wondering if you did actually see anything, Heck is the short that eventually was turned into the experimental horror Skinamarink. Personally, I love Skinamarink, but I understand it’s not for everyone. 100 minutes is a long time to be staring into staticky corners of a drab suburban home. Heck delivers the same tension-building quiet, but in a much more digestible 29 minutes.
《Heck》：说到专注地凝视虚无并怀疑自己是否真的看到了什么，短片《Heck》最终被改编成了实验恐怖片《Skinamarink》。我个人很喜欢《Skinamarink》，但我明白它并不适合所有人。盯着单调郊区住宅中充满噪点的角落看 100 分钟确实太漫长了。《Heck》带来了同样的紧张氛围，但时长仅 29 分钟，更容易让人接受。
Dining Room or There is Nothing: There’s not much to say about this one-minute loopable short from David B Earle. It’s the sort of video that did gangbusters on early YouTube. It’s all abstract creepiness and nightmare-fuel visuals. If you want the full effect and need something to put on the TV at your Halloween party, put on this four-hour looped version.
《Dining Room or There is Nothing》：关于大卫·B·厄尔（David B Earle）这部一分钟循环短片，没什么好说的。这是那种在早期 YouTube 上非常火爆的视频。它充满了抽象的诡异感和噩梦般的视觉效果。如果你想获得完整体验，或者需要在万圣节派对上播放一些视频，那就放这个四小时的循环版本吧。
Spirit Halloween Theme: No Halloween is complete without this banger from Nick Lutsko.
《Spirit Halloween Theme》：没有尼克·卢茨科（Nick Lutsko）的这首神曲，万圣节是不完整的。